Busy Sunday

Just my luck today, great weather and just in time for me to actually get under the car todo some much needed work under the engine......Not bad for Nov 6, almost 20 degrees C or about 60ish F for my american followers, so today I took her out of the garage for some sunbathing.

Mostly more wiring done today, connected the rad fans to the wiring harness, connected the oil pressure gauge line for the aftermarket gauge, ran the brake booster line under the car, also got the EVAP canister mounted, I've still got a couple things to wire under the car still, fuel sender wiring needs to be extended by 12" and wire up the Meth pressure switch to the Meth pump.

Not much in the way of pictures to show progress as it's not all that interesting under the car.........but since it was out I figure to take some nice overall progress pictures while the car was outside.

Missed a couple update posts, its been busy and exciting lately.

It's been a couple busy days here, work has me swamped but I have been getting work done to the Fierion as well, thus why no updates.

First I had to take a day off from wiring.......had to break it up so I finally got around to modifying the stock ebrake to mount the hydraulic ebrake cylinder, also I mounted it in a somewhat more normal mounting position, although I could have easily put it back in the stock location. Also I got tired of the ION door handle trim pieces falling on the ground, almost getting crushed in the doors or in general just getting in the way so I fabbed up some brackets to mount them to the doors.......simple but how it reduces frustration while working on the car.

Of course I'm still working on finishing up the wiring and wire by wire it's coming together, power door lock buttons and relays are working, but for some reason there isn't a signal going to the solenoids........probably a missing or blown fuse, least of my worries.

I've passed a huge milestone though, I got the brain working, yes the PCM/BCM are alive and talking!!!!! there are a couple issues probably related to the half dozen ground wires that still aren't connected to the chassis but I'm getting there. Electric power steering is connected and isn't coming up in the warning messages anymore. I've also got the 240 dash somewhat bolted down (couple more brackets and bolts will be required, plus for the first time I've gotten the 240 gauge bezel fitted around the steering column with the ION gauge cluster fitted (really its kinda just jammed in there, custom mounting bracket and filler piece will be created one day) Also got the hazard button and trunk release wired into the 240 trim piece.

Like I said, one wire at a time, still a few to go but the wiring list is getting much shorter!

Trying to spice up the blog from all the wiring posts

Thought I'd just do a quick picture post giving a quick picture history of the project to date. I'm still trying to find the pictures of the car in the earliest days, when I got her home, tear down, rust repair, etc, etc........no luck but I know they are somewhere.

More and more wiring

Another boring wiring post.......spent another couple hours running wires, finished running all the wires for the stereo system, if I can plug away a bit more at it over the next few days I should be able to complete it all soon, the list is getting smaller........

Not much to see in the pictures though, they all kinda look the same at this point.

More and more wires

There's gotta be an end to the wiring.........hopefully soon.......actually it shouldn't be that far off, the list of wires that need to be run, extended or just connected is getting less and less.

Last night got a few things started/completed in the wiring department, had a couple small issues with the headlight wiring, my mistake, had the polarity of the headlights different from driver to passenger (positive common on one, neg on the other) and going off the GM wiring diagram it said that high beams were the blue wire, pink was low.......reality was different so the lights were backwards on the controls.

Once that was done Yu-Ju gave me a hand wiring the cooling fans, I didn't get them extended to the engine wiring harness last night but the they are run into the passenger cabin, also I started running the amplifier 0AWG power and ground wires, plus added the 3 wires to both doors to mount the 4 speakers that will go into each door. I was on the fence with this, I do and I don't want a stereo mounted, extra weight for the track........vs cruising with some tunes, tunes won in the end.

I'm totally running out of center console room to run the myriads of wires through the car......I'm pretty certain GM engineers back in the 80's didn't think this was going to happen or they would have made more room........haha

Pictures aren't that impressive today as it's the same view as of late but with a couple extra wire looms/wires.