well, heres some progress on the soldering of the ecu harness and the icm harness.

alot of the green and red wire are for ac which is useless in my application. those will go.

i got a question for u experts. and not the guy whos 27% correct (J-K)


i believe the pulleys will go in the same direction. can any one confirm?
see any problem with this routing that i missed?

In regards to your soldering job, I would have shrink wrapped every single one of those connections not only for the addition short-circuit protection, but to help keep out moisture too. Corroded wires suck.

I'm with Tim on that. If you can...I'd pull them apart and add it.

A little more informaiton about why you are doing this may be nice.

i used that liquid electrical tape. works well. then i wrapped it with traditional elec tape.

but im not using the ac to save room ,and an extra headache. lil less weight, and less drag on the engine. i bought an ac bypass pulley, but it was too cheap. made in china pos. so i returned it.

and i used a 53.5 in belt if anyone has to do the same thing. goodyear, and dayco do not make one. gates is the only company i could find. i believe their part # was 5060535.

well its been awhile sincei touched my lil project. but ive made considerable progress. all motor mounts are done.

and i scrapped the soldered harness. i just went to my local junk yard and gutted a full eng and body harness out of a 93 regal. now all i have a a couple add-on solder jobs. rather than the entire thing. and the best part about the harness was that it only cost me 15.99. and i left the fuse panel. pcm, and bcm attached. they didnt care. i love that place.

today was a good day! i started the new engine for the first time. ohh man, what an awesome feeling to hear it turn right over. i got the eng mounts all tightened up. the cv shafts in. now all i need to do is a couple of vacuum lines. and weld the new down pipe to the existing exhaust. its always nice when a plan comes together.

edit. ill post some pics soon.