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Thanks guys, the misses has been totally supportive of the build and everything I do so couldn't ask for more.

 

Update over the weekend, totally remade all the wiring to the back of the car, adding the wiring for the Accusump system and splitting the loom into 3 separate sections to make it easier to work on at a later date.  Before it was all 1 loom to the back, but I've decided that if anything changes I have to rebuild the whole lot so better to build it as 3 separate looms; lights, fuel tank and accusump.  Old loom wasn't as clean as the later stuff I've been making for other cars so a good opportunity to tidy everything up to match the engine and ECU.

 

Rain light on a custom made bracket and powder coated.  Tailgate plug is hidden inside the roof but can be unhooked to remove the whole boot lid which it couldn't be before without taking the wiring out all the way to the dashboard!  All on Deutsch Connectors

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Tailgate - all wiring here is heatshrunk and glue sealed instead of overbraid.  High level brake light retains the original plug under the spoiler.

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Joining left and right hand side where the functions are the same, such as reversing lights, stop/tail lights and fog lights.  Each one is heat shrink/solder joints, water proof and labelled in case I need to fault find later on.  Earth lead is way over sized (22amp) but better to be safe than sorry.  Also fitted 4 separate earths just in case.

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Fuel cell plug, again all wires are labelled at each end just in case

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Rear end all fixed on place

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Now need to take the dashboard out and start on the last part of the wiring loom before putting power to everything.  Then it's fuel lines/filler neck and exhaust and onto mapping!  Given the rate I work at, still 6 months away :) :) :) 

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no worries mate! so is mine she has a ek4 vti as do i, my mb6 vti is my daily but we both tinker on our eks its a good relationship! still cant get over the build, will we be seeing this at shows next year? do you have instagram also

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11 hours ago, VTIDanny said:

no worries mate! so is mine she has a ek4 vti as do i, my mb6 vti is my daily but we both tinker on our eks its a good relationship! still cant get over the build, will we be seeing this at shows next year? do you have instagram also

 

It's good when you can have a common interest.  My misses is learning the basics like servicing and brakes when even the opportunity comes up, she's really good at it.

 

I'm happy how the car has come out so far, so glad I dry built 95% of it before paint to make sure there were no big issues.  Still got a few small bits to sort but so far it's gone back together really well.  I'm not on instagram, I tend to upload everything to Google Photos to share with a few friends the updates on the build (warts and all!)

 

10 hours ago, dmrichards said:

work of art, can't wait to see this in the flesh!

 

Yeah, hope it'll all be done soon!

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14 hours ago, VTIDanny said:

fair play to your misses mate! mines pregnant so cant really help with much atm haha, nothing better than taking pride in your own work 

That's awesome, can't wait to have kids of my own but not just yet.  

 

Few small updates in the last few days, like securing the dashboard a little better and started properly assembling the suspension.

 

Dash out and plan to mount a center point to bolt it down

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Mount can be moved up and down to meet the daahboard

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View from the underside with the dashboard back in.  Can also see the inlet to the windscreen ducting

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Dash in and a lot more secure

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Used some of the remaining S2 cam cover washers to bling up the dash bolts :lol:

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Next job was the back bumper and F7 LCA brace.  The LCA brace took a lot of machining to make fit originally and I knew I still had a bit more work to do to make it fit the Aerodeck

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Mounted and secure, just needs a new cap head for the upper left roll bar mount as I've lost one :( . I will connect up the drop links later

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Back bumper cut out, marked out some options where I wanted to cut the bumper.  Decided on the upper mark

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Hole saw the corners

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Angle grinder to cut the lines out

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Drum sander to finish the edges and test fit

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Cam cover off to fill the engine with oil and make sure everything is okay

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Also filled the gearbox with MF3.  Fill plug is easy to get to with no intake in the way!

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So all the oils are now done for running in. Need to check and fill the oil cooler and Accusump but can do that later

 

 

 

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how come you filled it up from there? the gearbox i mean? i usually fill it up from the breather on top of the gearbox.

takes slightly longer but you can see the fluid come out of the filling hole a lot easier :) 

 

also liking your updates mate 

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13 hours ago, Chandler said:

how come you filled it up from there? the gearbox i mean? i usually fill it up from the breather on top of the gearbox.

takes slightly longer but you can see the fluid come out of the filling hole a lot easier :) 

 

also liking your updates mate 

That's the normal filling point. Going slow for the last half litre wasn't too bad and easy to get the level. I've seen people fill up by taking out the Speedo sensor and drive before now. It's what ever is easier for you I guess

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Managed a few small jobs in the bay - I want to be able to turn over the engine to get some oil pressure

 

Firstly, exhaust manifold in so radiator out.  Luckily Hond-R supplied the correct rear bracket for this manifold from a H22 Prelude engine.

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Bottom of the image below shows the bolts holding the rear part of the manifold in place.  Struggling to decide how to mount the oil temp and pressure sensors.  Here I've used an adapter for the oil line to mount 1/8" NPT sensors into AN10 fluid lines.  This will work for pressure sensors but not temperature sensors.  Thinking of mounting the temp sensor on the remote oil filter housing so it can see the oil temp when it goes to the oil cooler.  Need to also run a breather hose back the catch can from the back of the block but need another AN10 fitting to mount the other end to the tank

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12 hours ago, DeLaSoul said:

That's the normal filling point. Going slow for the last half litre wasn't too bad and easy to get the level. I've seen people fill up by taking out the Speedo sensor and drive before now. It's what ever is easier for you I guess

ye man i know it says to fill up from there, just find it easier to fill up from the breather :) 

Speedo sensor hole aint a bad shout either!

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