The long and winding road.....again

[stephen low]

We'll I've finally winkled the car out of Marty's shed to try and move it along on its rebuild.

A few pics and already a few questions folks.

Had Marty move the coil packs to the rear of the engine as seen below.



So I started stripping the engine loom to allow the coil plugs to be brought back to the coils. Had thought about cutting and resoldering the wires to reduce the loom but not so sure. Am I better to just retape the relocated plugs without cutting the wires?

Also found one of the injector press on plugs had its retaining clamp snapped off. Am I better in this case to find a new plug and cut and resolder the wires so that I get positive contact atop the injector body?

The front view of the engine shows the accessory swap with the alternator to the passenger side and a better quality serpentine tensioner than I started with. This was done to allow fitting of the amended thermostat housing that now doubles as the radiator cap point. I can't recall which of you guys gave me that fitting anyone want to put up their hand?



Part of the rebuild will involve hiding the wiring but wanted to know how you attach the cable to the fibreglass on an external skin such as adjacent to the driver's footbox as in the picture below. Any clues?



The suggestion was to run it under the bonnet edge lip inside the engine bay but the cable will be quite visible as it rounds the rear of the front guard as per this picture.

I've also gone to a hydraulic clutch and will run some braid down to the clutch slave.



So I'm thinking of running inside the wheel arches, P clamped up high so that all that is visible in the engine bay would be shiny dome heads under the lip instead. Interested in comments on this idea.

So it's a long way to go but at least I can work on it whenever I can get into the shed.

Cheers