So 2021 came in hot....
Have already built 4 engines for this year, 5th already in at the engineering getting new AE piston goodness. Then did 2 engine swaps and a total bolt and nut restoration on a round nose. So finally have some time to work on my own car....
I found after some fast trips on the highway the engine bay on the radiator side is full of oil and I just had to accept that I have to source the problem and fix it. The damn noise was back on the clutch side.
Before...
I recently came across a brand new GT wiring loom for the front of the car, so a plan was hatched. The darn wiring that myself and brother started to hack in 2009 by adding a later fusebox and some later mods for relays for the lights and electric fan wiring etc. The wiring was always letting the engine bay look down. The bigger fusebox is in the way of the twin HS4 carbs and I am not using all the fuses, so it was a waste.
After removing the engine and having a marathon cleanup first with the pressure washer and then by hand with de-greaser the engine bay was in an acceptable state to remove the old loom.
Had to strip dash and gauges etc...
Beautiful engine bay loom less.
New loom on the left, old loom on the right.
After routing and fitting the new loom. Sourced some 25 mm grommets for the wiring to pass through on the inner wings, I believe these grommets have been missing since I own the car from 2004 till now. Connected the lights to the main loom with double bullit connectors, will fit single connectors at a later stage.
Driver side.
Finally back to original on the starter solenoid and it's connections, simple and effective.
On the passenger side of the firewall first grommet was fitted to blanking plate, again this second grommet was never fitted to the original loom, so yet again more back to correct and original we go...
Had to remove the switch panel because on the new loom the live and ground wires to the sides of the switches once connected could not fit through the mounting holes, so with panel disconnected the switches was fitted and then the wires connected...
New fusebox and some new fuses later and mounted to the old screw holes.
Have already built 4 engines for this year, 5th already in at the engineering getting new AE piston goodness. Then did 2 engine swaps and a total bolt and nut restoration on a round nose. So finally have some time to work on my own car....
I found after some fast trips on the highway the engine bay on the radiator side is full of oil and I just had to accept that I have to source the problem and fix it. The damn noise was back on the clutch side.
Before...
I recently came across a brand new GT wiring loom for the front of the car, so a plan was hatched. The darn wiring that myself and brother started to hack in 2009 by adding a later fusebox and some later mods for relays for the lights and electric fan wiring etc. The wiring was always letting the engine bay look down. The bigger fusebox is in the way of the twin HS4 carbs and I am not using all the fuses, so it was a waste.
After removing the engine and having a marathon cleanup first with the pressure washer and then by hand with de-greaser the engine bay was in an acceptable state to remove the old loom.
Had to strip dash and gauges etc...
Beautiful engine bay loom less.
New loom on the left, old loom on the right.
After routing and fitting the new loom. Sourced some 25 mm grommets for the wiring to pass through on the inner wings, I believe these grommets have been missing since I own the car from 2004 till now. Connected the lights to the main loom with double bullit connectors, will fit single connectors at a later stage.
Driver side.
Finally back to original on the starter solenoid and it's connections, simple and effective.
On the passenger side of the firewall first grommet was fitted to blanking plate, again this second grommet was never fitted to the original loom, so yet again more back to correct and original we go...
Had to remove the switch panel because on the new loom the live and ground wires to the sides of the switches once connected could not fit through the mounting holes, so with panel disconnected the switches was fitted and then the wires connected...
New fusebox and some new fuses later and mounted to the old screw holes.
Own some minis, break them, fix them, improve them, test them to the limit....
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