My "new" car/project.

[bramagedained]

I probably have nearly 30 hours into this since Friday after school.

I didn't feel like laying on the ground to get to the starter so I didn't do that part, everything for acc/run/start checked out with some lights I rigged up.

Everything electrical(except the wipers, I still need to figure that shit out) was connected and functioning. I used that to make a new set of notes. There was a couple of discrepancies between my original notes and the end result.

Everything is now stripped backed out of the car.

I wanted something to show for it so I finished what will be the front light harness. That is now in the car, secured and ready to be connected to relays(headlights/running lights) and the turn signal switch.

I still need to mount the fuse panel and relays, but, I already have a piece of aluminum bent up to mount them to and I know exactly where it's going in the car, I just didn't do it yet. I hope to have that and possibly the rear light wiring finished and installed tomorrow.

[bramagedained]

Text only updates are lame.

I have a ton of hours into this wiring project.

Today I have nearly everything finished. I need to get a couple of connectors and hook up the engine stuff, which is all of 7 wires including the senders for gauges and the starter/alternator.

The lights all work, including my indicators on the dash. The high and low beams are noticeably brighter now that they run through a relay instead of the full current through the headlight switch itself. -Even running off of the battery that is just sort of rigged up.

It's satisfying to hear the relays trigger that I added when turning on the headlights, running lights, or clicking the key to start.

I've not yet tied in the reverse light or neutral safety switches as they are part of the new shifter which will be a project all on it's own. I left provisions in the wiring to make this easy.

The same goes for the hazard switch, which is also a simple tie in. The leads are there, just not hooked to anything right now.

The fuse/relay panel. Not yet attached, but, exactly where it will sit on the firewall in the passenger footwell in the space that the old A/C coil used to occupy.

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It's not totally as clean as I wanted, but, the work involved to make all the runs exactly the same length just so the bend is the same for all of them simply isn't worth the time. I took those yesterday before I had everything connected.

This is how the wiring mess started, I hooked everything up with wire nuts and applied power to check everything out first. This was done without the relays.

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I'm quite fond of the new look from behind with the new tires.

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However, I 100% need to change out the studs in front, which I planned on doing anyway. Stock is M12x1.25, the rear is M12x1.5 which is much more common. When I pull the hubs again to swap the front rotors I'll take care of that, too.

The threads are only about half way into the generic short nuts I grabbed from the auto parts store.

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Hopefully it's up and running tomorrow, which will be fun with no exhaust.

Oh, I still need to figure out the wiper thing. I have which lead does what from the switch figured out, but, that's as far as I got on that.

[bramagedained]

Amount of work on the car in the last two days = 6 fast and furiouses.

[b00sted_spyder]

This thing is going to be nice when it's done!

[C3L1CA]

That wiring looks like a nightmare but nice job on getting most of it sorted out!

My lazy ass would just use rainx on the windshield and call it good lol

[goodhart]

Every time I see one of these wiring posts on a project thread it makes me want to mess with my harnesses even less. :lol:

[bramagedained]

If you can follow a wiring diagram and have a multimeter it's not a hard task, just tedious and time consuming.

[goodhart]

If you can follow a wiring diagram and have a multimeter it's not a hard task, just tedious and time consuming.

Yea, that's the worst part for me. Kids take more time than anything ever. At least when they are young like mine. Add in my lack of patience, and crusty old 20 year old wiring vs new stuff? Yea, I'd rather just save up and skip the hassle. Wish I had the patience and time for that though!

[bramagedained]

I had it started and running, so that and all the lights check out.

Things left for this leg of the project:

Figure out the wipers
Mount everything to the car
Change out the temp/oil pressure senders for the Autometer ones.
Connect the Hazard switch-I have everything run, I just ran out of solder.
Connect power to the fan for heat/vent. Simple, I just need to find the plug thats in my mystery box of stuff cut from the car.
Wire in neutral safety and reverse switches. This is technically part of the shifter swap.


To mount stuff, I'm waiting on borrowing a rivetnut kit/tool as that's how I'm going to do everything, instead of nuts and washers.

[bramagedained]

I had use of a rivetnut kit over the weekend so I have the 3 distribution blocks and the fuse/relay panel mounted.

I wired up the hazard switch and blower motor.

I slightly changed the plumbing of the vents, it now will only blow out the center. The way it was the blower just didnt move enough air to come out the center and both sides(there was otherwise no way to block off any of the vents). I'd rather have it be stronger from one spot than weak from all of them.

The temporary wiring to get it started was cleaned up.

Autometer water temp and oil pressure sensors installed and wired up.

I now have the wiring for the wipers sorted. There will no longer be an intermittent setting, only Off-Low-High.