electrictrickery

also rewired the connector on the bottom right, immob one, to a decent connector and fed the starter and fuel pump circuits still via it.

Should be a whole load cleaner once done.

look good muu.

WIll be doing something simliar on mine, but no plate at the rear, and move everything onto the inside of the firewall.

Yeah I was really trying to get the packaging to work nicely without having to rip too much apart (ha!). Also mines been somewhat of an evolution

A truely pukka job from scratch you’d rip the whole loom out (removing the fuel tank etc), put a PDU in place to run the whole sha-bang like a PDM30, ditch the control box behind the clocks, use the GPIO on a CAN enabled dash to pickup the stalks, soft pad button CAN panel to one side, all sensors into a proper daddy spec ECU. You’d be in 4 figures just in DR-25 :laughing:

Yeah looks really nice.

Don’t know who would go to the extreme of all of that :blush: :astonished:

Well I proably won’t run a membrain panel, but the grey hill ones we use at work are pretty good value. Mines a mix of Dr on external and nomex/hft 5000 on the cabin. Gone a little over board with the
Additional sensors for further proofing running in spares for suspension pots, pressures and wheel speeds for traction control and launch. Also done away with the cable with DBW. So I can run throttle blips on up and down shifts with a clutch pressure sensor

yeah I put a DTM between the loom at the TB, so I can reconfigure it for DBW

right some progress (I’m giving up on merging my threads):

Replaced a joint on my lower front torque steady, rose joint (M12) at one end and poly bushing in the chassis side:

So time to get stuck into sorting the chassis side out:

In place:

Engine loom taking shape:

Merging them is not fun but getting there, MIL plug is next:

While I’m at it putting a remote oil pressure sensor in:

gearbox cooler too, as there were signs of heat related damage, here is the pump:

Iveco rad switch to control said pump

pump is quite cool inside:

spending a fortune on the loom, connectors etc you expect but the wrap adds up too

Bought some RT125 epoxy to seal the boot to the MIL, £40 on a 50ml tube later

did order this though:

Have a chat with Think, but I seem to remember that the gearbox pump needs to be lower than the oil level.

Cheers John, will double check that!

Description online does say “The pump is self priming and can be mounted up to 1.5m above the fluid level.”

It’d be a pig to locate low down.

Top effort Tim. What was the catalyst for all this, you threaded a bolt or summat? That kicked off making a complete custom loom, gearbox oil-cooler, more bling, trick diff etc etc. Top marks :sunglasses: good luck over the next few days getting it back together eh!

two things, burning out fuel pump relays (sound familiar?) and yes pulled thread on box

Matt’s doing some rewiring today, so hopefully that will be put to bed. I’ve not used it as a catalyst to commission a whole new loom :wink:

TBH you could buy an off the shelf one that’d be pretty good, with the MIL bulkhead etc

Yeah the time to do that would have been when Matt rebuilt the car 18months ago, apart from a few tidy-up jobs the wiring was barely touched.

being brutally honest, wiring is a time (and therefore invoices) sink hole especially for people where it’s not their bread and butter

see what some easy clean up can do and take it from there

Wiring can be a nightmare if old and has been added to / take away from over the years. Eventually biting the bullet and getting a proper one made up is the way to go.

When I was racing I had all kinds of weird electrical gremlins, one of them turned the boost up every time i flashed the headlights. I don’t know how that happened. :wink:

right busy day:

so cracking on with the main wiring plate:

that’s now done:

and installed:

here is the MIL bulkhead connector

I didn’t have the correct crimp tool, it wouldn’t go shallow enough so I improvised by stacking a pair:

So engine loom hands off to chassis here:

Also put the IACV and TPS on a 8 pin DTM so I can swap to DBW if required and just a small rewire cabin side:

have also put a expander connector in place should we need to add anything:

Oil and forgot to post this, remote oil pressure sensor:

Fuel pressure sensor:

Need to get this mounted next:

Wow Tim. I’m sure there quite a few proper competiton cars out there that the workmanship in that wiring would embarrass.

Final push bud,…let’s see the car out to play next week…

yeah head down, and hopefully you’ll see it at parc menai