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Car is so clean and coming together nicely. Gonna be great when you finally get to take it out.
I'm really pressuring myself and rushing to invest every free second into this thing. So excited!
I've got to manage to get 1k miles on the drive train once its all back together to get the break in completed. It will be hard considering its not exactly legal at this point lol
I'm really pressuring myself and rushing to invest every free second into this thing. So excited!
I've got to manage to get 1k miles on the drive train once its all back together to get the break in completed. It will be hard considering its not exactly legal at this point lol
Make sure you run a STOCK ACD tune for the first 3k-4k miles as well.
Well ive now got manual windows all around. Just missing 1 plastic crank. Same weight savings in the front as the back for just regulators which is about 1 lb per door.. Also pulled the wire harness for each door which was almost an additional 4lbs. So grand total about 8lbs shaved. And the doors look much cleaner than before. Ill take it.
Well cant leave well enough alone... Thinned down wiring going from junction pannels at driver/pass foot well all the way to the trunk. Removed all the SRS stuff, trunk lights/sensors, speaker wires, and charcoal canister wires etc. Left only exterior lights and the section going to fuel system.
Then I decided to work on the cabin dash section. But it was too much with it in the car. So I removed it. Lots of work to do depinning and deleting wires to unused systems. Leaving exterior lighting, ABS, ACD, instrument cluster, and essential systems intact. Then at some point move to engine bay harness. Would ideally like to bring the engine bay fuse panel into the cabin. Not sure how much of this I can stomach. The time cost to benefit ratio is horrible. I would at least like to remove all the unused, hot wires from the harness. And loose weight in doing so.
So here I have deleted all the unused systems simply by following the connectors back into the harness and depinning where they end up. I've also spent an ungodly amount of time learning to read the service manual/wiring diagram. Its not that hard to interpret if you familiarize yourself with the markings and their meanings. Way to many hours to just get this far...
So far in removing what I could for radio, HVAC, SRS, keyless entry, power windows/doors, I've shaved about 10lbs of wiring and plastic. This includes the door harnesses I previously removed when I converted to manual windows. It also includes wiring from floor harnesses running to the rear of the car for SRS, charcoal canister, door sensors, keyless entry etc
Yeah I dont know how far I want to take the wring. Its easily the least fun thing I've done automotively lol. But I do want to just delete unused wires which may have voltage in them going nowhere. Probably just do that and be done with it.
Apr 14, 2017, 09:44 AM
