Engine Bay Wiring Cleanup

MrGenius · Post by **MrGenius** » Mon Aug 30, 2004 10:54 am

Anyone here gone all out on their engine bay wiring and cleaned up the engine bay to look respectable?
After looking at the starion engine bay i just shake my head, theres shit everywhere :roll:
New engine will be run with aftermarket ecu and coil packs with direct fire so everything thats not needed will be removed.
Got some pics? Hints? Bit of inspiration? :beer

NXTIME · Post by **NXTIME** » Mon Aug 30, 2004 4:24 pm

Check out my engine bay pics, MrG ;) It might refresh your memory.

decoy · Post by **decoy** » Mon Aug 30, 2004 5:40 pm

post a pic!

NXTIME · Post by **NXTIME** » Mon Aug 30, 2004 5:44 pm

anglefire wont allow remote linking...

http://www.angelfire.com/emo2/sydneysta ... IME004.jpg

you will have to open a new browser and paste the link to view it.

decoy · Post by **decoy** » Mon Aug 30, 2004 6:09 pm

blllling!

love the overflow bottle

NXTIME · Post by **NXTIME** » Mon Aug 30, 2004 6:10 pm

hey, my engine deserves the best liquid :D

SpidersWeb · Post by **SpidersWeb** » Mon Aug 30, 2004 6:41 pm

Im gonna do this shortly.

Im ripping everything out, except possibly the popup light system, Im not quite sure what is used to run the motor for a set period of time yet? Everything else is going bye bye.

Putting in new relays, new cable. I got so sick and tired of the electrics doing random things, that I decided to do this. Want to paint the engine bay first, but Id recommend it to anyone who has their engine out. Will save you time in the long run.

But yeah, it looks like the Starion engine mess was a factory installed 'feature'.

MrGenius · Post by **MrGenius** » Mon Aug 30, 2004 9:10 pm

Yeh almost forgot about your bling engine bay Charlie :D

Factory fitted mess is right SpidersWeb also an appropriate user name rofl

decoy · Post by **decoy** » Tue Aug 31, 2004 1:31 am

if only it came out MPI from factory... its not as if wasn't invented then...

tmz_99 · Post by **tmz_99** » Tue Aug 31, 2004 3:02 am

yes!! go aftermarket ECU!! w00t w00t!! wont regret it for p0rn material..:D

rxtoy · Post by **rxtoy** » Tue Aug 31, 2004 9:20 am

to get rid of the ignitor box?

find a dizzy from an L300 van, these have internal ignitors (doesn't have to be fuel injected, just has to be a dizzy with only two wires, one to the negative side of the coil and one to the positive), i got one from pick a part for $28. Apparently some of these were optical (the later model ones???) but i couldn't find out any more about it.

unplug ignitor box, install distributor as normal, wire to coil as normal, run a wire from the negative side of the coil to A8 on your computer (pm me if you need pinouts or do a search, i found them on here). this wire is to fire the injectors so don't forget it!!!

my tacho's only running intermittently but i think it might be from something else, i'll investigate when i've got some extra time.

and thats it, i did it because either my dizzy or my ignitor were stuffed but it got rid of that big ugly hunk of metal on the passenger side of the engine bay and if you got into it you could just cut off and strip out all the wiring going to that plug, i just left it there for now though, my car definitly isn't a show car :D

cheers
Matt

rxtoy · Post by **rxtoy** » Tue Aug 31, 2004 9:25 am

oops, that probably won't help much for aftermarket ecu but hopefully it'll help somebody out there????

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