Tried to have a productive weekend working on the car last evening and this afternoon. I wound up spending that time doing some rewire work on the power & ground cables.
Some of the professionals that saw the pics suggested I install a dedicated ground cable front to back in the car to attach all the ground circuits as the chromoly tubing & stock metal is not a sufficient ground plane.
Anyway, turned out to be quite a bit of work and was difficult to make the grounds look neat with as many connections there wound up being. Turned out alright I guess, but this case, form must follow function, so a properly grounded electrical system was more important than neatness.
The car previously had 1/0 power cable which I removed and replaced with 2 gauge cable and ran an identical size 2 gauge for the ground front to back.
In the passenger kick panel area I installed a pass-thru stud to allow me to ground the engine block & cylinder heads to the main ground cable. The block was tough to figure out since the diaper completely covers the block to the bottom of the heads. Passing from the frame to the block with the cable took some head scratching.
I also made up a harness leading up front to power the fan, head lights, parking lights and their respective ground circuits. I terminated that harness at the front of the frame rails with a 5 pin round Delphi weatherpak connector. I'll finish the rest of that once the tubular core support is built and I can install the front clip for the last time.
Other than the forward harness, the only other electrical components that need completing is connecting a couple data logger sensors to the engine.
Next project will be making a jig so I can then build the tubular chromoly core support.
Some of the professionals that saw the pics suggested I install a dedicated ground cable front to back in the car to attach all the ground circuits as the chromoly tubing & stock metal is not a sufficient ground plane.
Anyway, turned out to be quite a bit of work and was difficult to make the grounds look neat with as many connections there wound up being. Turned out alright I guess, but this case, form must follow function, so a properly grounded electrical system was more important than neatness.
The car previously had 1/0 power cable which I removed and replaced with 2 gauge cable and ran an identical size 2 gauge for the ground front to back.
In the passenger kick panel area I installed a pass-thru stud to allow me to ground the engine block & cylinder heads to the main ground cable. The block was tough to figure out since the diaper completely covers the block to the bottom of the heads. Passing from the frame to the block with the cable took some head scratching.
I also made up a harness leading up front to power the fan, head lights, parking lights and their respective ground circuits. I terminated that harness at the front of the frame rails with a 5 pin round Delphi weatherpak connector. I'll finish the rest of that once the tubular core support is built and I can install the front clip for the last time.
Other than the forward harness, the only other electrical components that need completing is connecting a couple data logger sensors to the engine.
Next project will be making a jig so I can then build the tubular chromoly core support.
nice work dude
