CR3171 Finally going back together!

[Aussie Mike]

The wiring loom is starting to take shape. A lot of messing around with routing wires to where I want them. Tedious work but actually quite satisfying.

At this stage I've tried to hide as much of the wiring as possible in the gap under the manifold. It was one of the reasons for painting the valley plate black.







It should all be pretty stealthy when it's done.

Much of the loom is wrapped with the cloth tape I mentioned previously. Where it runs in areas exposed to high heat like under the manifold or near the exhaust it'll get an extra wrapping of techflex braid or something similar.

Here's the wiring down to the starter, coils and O2 sensor.



Where it runs across the back of the cylinder heads it's secured in place. I machined up some standoffs from 10mm stainless bolts that thread into the accessory holes in the heads. Rubber lined P-clamps then bolt to these with 6mm bolts and hold the loom securely away from the head.



What's left to do is cut and shorten the rest of the loom where it connects to the ECU. That will mean splicing the loom back together with solder joints and heat shrink.



Cheers