Project Clean 87
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Nothing major to report, but I did start shortening me ECU harness today at the connectors where they plug into the ECU. I'm shortening them up about 6" and currently have 2 connectors done, 4 to go. Once that's done, I'll move on to installing my electronics today.
Side note, I noticed the pink wire today and couldn't resist cursing it out for limiting my speed.
Adam
Side note, I noticed the pink wire today and couldn't resist cursing it out for limiting my speed.
Adam
All 5 connectors have been shortened, the wires that go to my SAFC NEO, I think, were also shortened and the unused wires trimmed and heat shrinked together, and my Greddy SLC is installed. Took a quick test drive and went to 125 MPH (as verified by my GPS) and then came home and vaccuumed out the car and now it's getting covered in saw dust. Now for the pics.
Thanks Matt. It's funny when you think I've just barely touched the tip of the ice berg on this build. Now on to an update.
I ran a 00 cable under the car and grounded the battery in the trunk. I created a very temporary (as in tomorrow I'm buying a propper fuse block) fuse block out of a piece of 1/8" steel and a custom bracket I made. The battery is back in the trunk and with any luck tomorrow I'll have a new fuse block, along with an inline 100 amp fuse for the main power cable just to be on the safe side. I also picked up a battery cut-off switch with removable key today as well.
I ran a 00 cable under the car and grounded the battery in the trunk. I created a very temporary (as in tomorrow I'm buying a propper fuse block) fuse block out of a piece of 1/8" steel and a custom bracket I made. The battery is back in the trunk and with any luck tomorrow I'll have a new fuse block, along with an inline 100 amp fuse for the main power cable just to be on the safe side. I also picked up a battery cut-off switch with removable key today as well.
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You better you stop by when you're in town on leave. If you don't I'll harrass you like it's cool.:biglaugh:
Went to the local car stereo place today and picked up a power block for all my cables to go into as well as a 100 amp circuit breaker. Now I can kill the power coming from my positive cable. I bolted the circuit breaker down to the fender. The power block just floats in the air and is held up by the cables. Since it is insulated by a shield of plastic, there is no chance of metal to metal. Even if that does happen some how I have the circuit breaker a foot away from the block. Quick side note, when lighting a blow torch make sure the flame isn't aimed at your hand. Now for pics.
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looks great!, but i think it would look alot better if u mounted the power block to something. im sure u know that tho.
EDIT: one of these days u have to come to my house, there are tons of roads out here that we could top ur car out on, and we'd never get caught. HAHA
EDIT: one of these days u have to come to my house, there are tons of roads out here that we could top ur car out on, and we'd never get caught. HAHA
I am most likely going to mount the power block the the back side of the flushmount headlight box (the metal shroud that will cover the lights that stick out the back of the box).
Adam
Adam
Got a lot done today. Matt, Brad, Eric, and James all came over and helped work on installing my flushmount headlights. Turns out this project sucks and is going to take a lot of man hours, but it should be done by next week with any luck. Before anyone showed up I had the old pop-up lights out fully. Most of the day I spent installing my battery kill switch (now I can kill both positive and negative power circuits). Instead of painting the body or my liscense plate for the On-Off positions, I'm going to make a plate the size of a liscense plate and paint that and put it on when I go racing. Much cleaner look that way. Now on for the pics. The last pic was Matts idea.
Nice, looks liek you guys continued workin!
i hope to finish them up in the morning for yeah so you can aim them tomorrow night.
will me b nice to see them finsihed.
i hope to finish them up in the morning for yeah so you can aim them tomorrow night.
will me b nice to see them finsihed.
Yet another long day working on the Supra. Thanks to James, Matt, and Joey, we made good progress today. We had to try 3 different mounting plates before finding one that worked. I am going to have to create a mounting plate for each light and then weld the plates together. Each light will be fully adjustable, and to hide the ugliness of the lights back half and mounts I'll be making a piece of sheet aluminum to dress it up. When we finished James hot wired the solo headlight we got mounted so we could see how bright it is. Turns out those 55w H7 projectors are worth every penny. Now on with the pics.
well adamn, it looks like youve gotton one working, but you said your going to use one set of projectors as one hight and one low right?
yeah he is, but i'll have to say making the mount's for this set up was tricky on the fact they needed good adjustment and had minimal room for the lights to be next to each other and the boxe's were made and purchased before hand.
but we figured out through trial and error the best way so far to mount the lights.
either way i think these will turn out quite nice.
but we figured out through trial and error the best way so far to mount the lights.
either way i think these will turn out quite nice.
hopefully tomorrow we can finish up the rest of the mounts since we have a pretty good idea of what we are doing now. btw its kinda funny to see me all casted up doing all this metal working. lol. my doctor would be pissed. oh well.
The inner two headlights are in!!! Although they need to be adjusted since right now they are basically high beams. Still a lot more work to do. Now for the pics.
