MONTE CARLO "COPO" Monte Carlo SS - Turbosaurus Build (Swinging Dick Racing's c*ck got bent... she bounced a little too high & hard, & came down awkwardly)

[motorheadmike]

10 hours later. Sheesh... if you are sitting at home and wanting to do a half-way decent LS swap you'd better be very organized and a glutton for tedious punishment because that is what is required to do the wiring even remotely well. I started the day by making a hold-down bracket for the top of the intake manifold, helps to keep stuff from jumping around. Then it was adding or terminating 16 circuits into the cabin via that fancy weather pack bulkhead connector. This included all of the wiring for the OBD II port, the TCC, VSS, tach signal, and so on... as well as 6 unused circuits for future considerations (built into the six circuit weather pack connector sitting on top of the back of the intake manifold). Then it was just a sh*t tonne of wiring management (including documenting circuit locations), routing (including the WB02), and looming. It sucks. But, this is the difference between doing it right once and doing it again later.

I have the day off work tomorrow so I'll be back at it in the morning.

 

[fleming442]

White zip ties, Michael? Really?

 

[motorheadmike]

White zip ties, Michael? Really?

Yup. Form follows function, this is what I have on hand so this is what I use. Besides good zip ties are really expensive up here.

Lots of other threads sweating the cosmetic details.

 

[motorheadmike]

Today's Episode of "Why I Hate Myself" has ol' MHM wiring... again. FML.

Finished up the fuse panel, ran a fat power and ground to the panel for the sake of expansion, repurposed the factory stereo power wires (that sexy key on power), dropped the old cigarette lighter thingy into the glove box for when I need a power inverter, built out the OBD II port which bolt in place of the stock ALDL port under the dash, added some LED mood lighting, and got that Innovate WBO2/boost controller to light up too.

There was probably some other stuff I forgot. Just need a few more circuits terminated and we should be good to go. Other than needing to spend money on HP Tuners credits... gaaaaah!

 

[Texas82GP]

Today's Episode of "Why I Hate Myself" has ol' MHM wiring... again. FML.

Finished up the fuse panel, ran a fat power and ground to the panel for the sake of expansion, repurposed the factory stereo power wires (that sexy key on power), dropped the old cigarette lighter thingy into the glove box for when I need a power inverter, built out the OBD II port which bolt in place of the stock ALDL port under the dash, added some LED mood lighting, and got that Innovate WBO2/boost controller to light up too.

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There was probably some other stuff I forgot. Just need a few more circuits terminated and we should be good to go. Other than needing to spend money on HP Tuners credits... gaaaaah!

I thought you had fired HP Tuners.

 

[motorheadmike]

I thought you had fired HP Tuners.

I was past the point of no return with the wiring in this thing when the Holley Terminator X came out, and I was already $400 into the SCG-1on top of that - so I am stuck now gargling HP Tuners' nuts tuning this car. Believe me I am sufficiently annoyed.

 

[Texas82GP]

gargling HP Tuners' nuts

I'll give you this Mike...you are never at a loss for words.

 

[fleming442]

MMMMM, spaghetti!!!!

 

[motorheadmike]

MMMMM, spaghetti!!!!

 

[motorheadmike]

Ordered a couple of credits from the Tuning School (cheapest I could find after a short look), and then they had the audacity to have an amazingly quick turn-around to change my application key (like 8 minutes). That was impressive. Show-offs.

Guess I have no choice but to finish the electrical now, put a tune in it, and fire it up, eh?