Internal Wiring

As the old man is away on holiday I don't have a second pair of hands to finish the bonnet so I moved onto getting the wiring finished and ECU hooked up.

The first job was to make a mounting plate for the AK loom relays and fuses. The manual doesn't mention mounting the dash relays here so I intend to mount them later behind the dash.

I also needed someone to mount the Canems ECU so as I had a piece of stainless steel left over from making the heater cover that was bent at 90 degrees I figured that would be perfect. Fitting was straight forward it just took some time as you need to keep trial fitting to figure out where everything needs to be fitted. The plate was mounted with two 8mm x 35mm bolts. You can tap or rivnut into the scuttle hoop to fit this.

Heres the plate with the ECU mounted (I later had to turn the ECU around to face the other way as the wires were not long enough to reach the reach of the mount)

Next, just simply mount the fuses and relays and bolt it into place.

Finally I added the fuel pump relay to the plate and attached the wires to the scuttle with zip ties attached to tie plates which were bonded onto the scuttle with Sikaflex.

To test the electrics I hooked up the key and start button and after a little troubleshooting on the ECU I managed to get action from the fuel pump and starter motor. Unfortunately the car didn't start despite popping as if it wanted to so I'll take a look at that next week.