Photos of the Rides GNRS

Grand National Roadster Show, Pomona, CA

This past Sunday, took a day off from the car and went to the Grand National Roadster Show in Pomona. Tons of great looking cars, and a bunch of great looking stripes. My 1st time there, so I really didn't know what to expect. Now that I know what kinds of cars are there, I'll make it a point to go every year. Here's a few pics of the stripes on the cars. I'll upload pics of the cars a little later.

More Wires!

John brought back my steering wheel from Japan for me. Now I've got a wood Nardi for the Cortina. Just have to find someone that has a hub for it! Got to wiring the ECU for the 4AG. It actually wasn't as hard as I thought it'd be. Had all my wires marked, had everything pretty much set up before i got it started, so once i started, i was able to get it all done in a afternoon. ECU is now mounted on the passenger side, and the fuse box on the driver side.
Still have to wire up all the guages, accessories, and indicator stalk. Luckily, all wires are labled, so this shouldn't take a whole lot of time. ( i hope )
Last shot is in the engine bay. All engine wires are now through the fire wall. Still have to plumb fuel lines/brakes lines and a few more wires, but i figure i can do that after the body is painted.
the Cortina will be towed back to school tomorrow, hopefully in paint by Feb/Mar. We'll see how that goes, but with class 4 days a week, i think i should get a whole lot done, as long as i don't get lazy!

More Wiring

So I got to wiring up the chassis harness over the weekend. started out by clipping the wires that were of no use. Then ran the tail section wires to the trunk. That will be finished up later when I put on the tailights. So I ran the wires to the front section next. Since I got rid of the harness plugs that go through the firewall, I ran them along the inner fender well.
Wires ran up along the inner fender, down to the headlamps, then using the factory grommets on the front side of the fender, ran the passenger side wires to there.
Here's a shot of the right side inner fender. Left side looks similar, but w/o the coil, ignitor and map sensor. You can see the HID Ballasts mounted up along with the HID relay.
Fuse panel is mounted on the driverside of the car, as the ECU is mounted on the passenger side. There's just too many wires!

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year! Been having a bit going on lately. Been running wires galore. 1st it's been figuring out the engine harness, all sensors have been found and marked. 2nd, got my coil, igniter, map sensor and HID ballasts mounted. Haven't taken pics of those, so those will go up in a couple days.

Got a header for the AE86 to modify and fit to the Cortina. Realized that w/o modifying it, the pipes foul the steering box, the body and pretty much everything right of the engine. So, we decided to take out about 1 1/4" off the runners closest to the flange. Here it's measured out, the zip ties will guide us..

Pipes, cut, had to cut a bunch of notches on #4 so we could swing the pipe back into the flange holes. After this, we mounted the header back onto the car, realized, there's still a whole lot of modifying to be made. Andy suggested using a FWD stock AE111 or AE101 header and modifying it to RWD. So I'm now searching for another header, maybe that may work better than this one, if not, we'll be going back to this.
Yanked the motor, hopefully for the last time. Making my engine harness off the car at the moment, and will have everything cleaned up before the engine goes back in. Also, getting the gearbox prepped with new throwout bearing etc. to mount back onto the motor and she'll all go back as one.
Also got my chassis harness from EZ Wiring Harness. Looks like I'll be running wires over the next few days for all the lights etc. Oh, also got a 15 gal Aluminum fuel cell from JEGS. Will have to mod that a bit so it'll fit in nice and snug. Class starts up next week again, so after the wiring, the Cortina will be going back to school for block sanding, final priming, then wet sanding, and hopefully paint.

It's starting to get exciting!