RED LS1
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Just thought I should point this out for anyone searching in the future.
This was a bit of a PIA. It's like packing 10lbs of crap in a 5 LBS bag. I would like to curse Caspers for making the module like this but I would rather thank them for making a module at all.
I ran the 02 wire harness and the vacum line through the rubber plug in the corner of the firewall. You can pull it out with some long needle nose pliers. I cut the bottom of the plug, ran the stuff through it and glued it back together and stuffed it back in. Done!
I ran the caspers box behind the computer cover but it faces the wrong way and positions the O2, MAP and ground towards the front. Not a huge problem but it makes it harder to fit the MAP and Vacum hose back there.
I ran the main XFI box on the front (right side up). When I ran the wires under they were a little long and backwards. They had just enough slack to twist them around which tightend up the slack and positioned them the right way.
I ran the ground to the body tab under the glove box which I grounded bare with a dremel.
All was good and in place untill I tried to put it together on the kick panel. There was a lot of interference. I ended up re-routing the vacum hose and O2 harness one final time OVER the main Buick Harness and also had to do a little more cutting. The wire harness comming from the bottom of the caspers box was interfering with the bottom of the inner mounted kick panel. I had to cut out the section it was hitting.
After that and a little more BS it was all ready to go together. You can't really get the computer cover panel to slide up into the 2 upper mounting tabs with all this crap mounted inside of it. I than had to take the inner kick panel back out, install the kick panel and computer cover with all the crap together and install it into the car as one whole piece.
I reached under and moved the little metal, bendy, floor tab onto the inner kick panel and held it tight. I than put the button into the lower part to secure it. I went into the engine compartment and pulled any slack tight from the O2 and vacum line.
Everything looks great and is tight and completely in place. Its all secured well and I know it's not going anywhere. I am just always going to wonder if someone bumps it is it going to fly across the car like snakes out of a gag can. lol.
I also think there may have been a way to run the Caspers box facing the right way which probably would have made this all much easier. But when I did make it the right way it wouldn't pull far enough foward. The factory Buick harness was not long enough. It wouldn't have sat in the computer cover far enough foward to work. At least I don't think so.
So, sorry for the long post but I hope it helps someone in the future.
This was a bit of a PIA. It's like packing 10lbs of crap in a 5 LBS bag. I would like to curse Caspers for making the module like this but I would rather thank them for making a module at all.
I ran the 02 wire harness and the vacum line through the rubber plug in the corner of the firewall. You can pull it out with some long needle nose pliers. I cut the bottom of the plug, ran the stuff through it and glued it back together and stuffed it back in. Done!
I ran the caspers box behind the computer cover but it faces the wrong way and positions the O2, MAP and ground towards the front. Not a huge problem but it makes it harder to fit the MAP and Vacum hose back there.
I ran the main XFI box on the front (right side up). When I ran the wires under they were a little long and backwards. They had just enough slack to twist them around which tightend up the slack and positioned them the right way.
I ran the ground to the body tab under the glove box which I grounded bare with a dremel.
All was good and in place untill I tried to put it together on the kick panel. There was a lot of interference. I ended up re-routing the vacum hose and O2 harness one final time OVER the main Buick Harness and also had to do a little more cutting. The wire harness comming from the bottom of the caspers box was interfering with the bottom of the inner mounted kick panel. I had to cut out the section it was hitting.
After that and a little more BS it was all ready to go together. You can't really get the computer cover panel to slide up into the 2 upper mounting tabs with all this crap mounted inside of it. I than had to take the inner kick panel back out, install the kick panel and computer cover with all the crap together and install it into the car as one whole piece.
I reached under and moved the little metal, bendy, floor tab onto the inner kick panel and held it tight. I than put the button into the lower part to secure it. I went into the engine compartment and pulled any slack tight from the O2 and vacum line.
Everything looks great and is tight and completely in place. Its all secured well and I know it's not going anywhere. I am just always going to wonder if someone bumps it is it going to fly across the car like snakes out of a gag can. lol.
I also think there may have been a way to run the Caspers box facing the right way which probably would have made this all much easier. But when I did make it the right way it wouldn't pull far enough foward. The factory Buick harness was not long enough. It wouldn't have sat in the computer cover far enough foward to work. At least I don't think so.
So, sorry for the long post but I hope it helps someone in the future.
