Kirkham Motorsports Assembly Manual

[David Kirkham]

Now it is time to run the left-forward wiring harness. The left-forward wiring harness runs the wiper motor, radiator fan, left horn, left head light, and left turn signal. Later when we get the dash in, we will also run the dash sending unit wires along the same place.

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Back to the right side of the car.

The REAR wiring harness makes a sharp turn as it exits the firewall and runs down on the outside of the foot box to a cross lower cross member.

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Here is the over view of how the wiring runs to the back of the car.




The wiring then rivets to the BACK of the bracket that holds the front of the right foot box.




Here are the connectors for the starter. They come out of the harness right at the right foot box bracket.




The harness then passes through the main cowl support bracket. We laser a hole in this bracket just so you can run the wiring, and battery cables through the hole. Original AC Cobras did NOT have this hole in them and the wiring, fuel lines, and battery cables ran UNDER the sharp edge of the bracket--not good if you have an unexpected 4 x 4 off road experience in your ride. In our cars, we run the fuel lines on the other side...we will get to them later.

Frankly, it is VERY BAD PRACTICE to have ANYTHING hanging under your frame rails--including the bell housing (we will get to that later). Trailer edges, rocks, jacks, jack stands, dips in the road (Al Queda and otherwise), and all sorts of other things have a very strong appetite for gouging and eating such things. The standard rule is, the more expensive the part (think a hole in your oil pan) the more likely a rock will miraculously evade the cheap parts and and eat the oil pan first!




Next you go over the side pipe bracket.




Then through the square tubes that hold the back of the rocker sil onto the main chassis. Then finally, run the wiring up into the FRONT hole in the trunk panel. Don't forget the grommet! The yellow wire you see hanging down and across the frame rail goes to the fuel pump (more on that in a bit). Everything is loose and not riveted in right now on purpose. We run the battery cables down the same path, so we will tie them all up together at a later time.




These wires go to the brake light switch. It doesn't matter which terminal you plug them into on the sender.

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Now we will go to the trunk wiring. Here you can rivet in all of the wiring when you get it run correctly. You can see the battery cables in this picture (dang guys are putting parts in faster than I can post the pics!). Battery cables are pictured in detail below.



This is a picture of the left rear wiring harness where it connects to the tail lights and the fuel level sender (if you get that option).

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The rear wiring harness now travels along the edges of the trunk tubes.

The left side wiring harness also has the wires that go to the trunk license plate light. There is both a power and a ground that goes to the trunk. Notice how the harness rivets to the under side of the tubes in the trunk. This is the SAME on both the left and the right side.




And then out through a hole in the aluminum side panels. REMEMBER THE GROMMET! This is a picture of the left side of the wiring harness. The left side has a BIGGER grommet than the right side as both the tail lights and the fuel tank sending unit wiring are in the same part of the harness here.




Here is a picture of how the right side harness runs and where it exits the panel to go to the tail lights. Original Cobras run the wiring the same way.

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Here is a picture of the right rear tail light wires.




Here is a picture of the left rear tail light and fuel level sending unit wires.




Close up of the tail light wires.





Close up of the fuel level sending unit wires.

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place holder for fuel sender hook up