Got the crossmember installed tonight as well. Have a little bit of massaging of the openings i cut into the boxed frame, but not terrible considering the body is on the car
Started looking at the wiring yesterday. got a good portion of it figured out as to where the painless dash wiring harness is going to hook into the efi harness to make everything work together as it should including the factory buick dash tach. Just going to call holley and double check myself on a couple things. Got the mounting studs attached to the new dash bezel to attach the fuel and speedometer to. Shootout to todd miller for putting the helpful hint on his website for drilling out the new tabs with a 5/32 drill bit going a half inch deep. I cracked the first tab (not bad, its still usable), then drilled out the rest of them, added a little bit of grease, and had zero issues installing the rest of the studs
Got a few days off from work, so i started diving into wire routing. Started to tail out the buick gauge pods so i can bench wire the dash lights and do all the grounding of the clusters. Now i just need to find a factory buick tachometer for 70-72 thats been recalibrated, that should take care of dash wiring for a little while Also working to retrofit the vintage air controls into the factory climate control housing this way you cant tell its an aftermarket defroster. Fabricated some brackets and welded them to the back of the glovebox door. This way i can mount the ECU for the holley efi system to the back of it. Got everything bolted in place temporarily so i know how much room i have for the coil packs. Its a tight fit but it doesnt look too bad in my opinion. Now i can get the backside of the glovebox door in paint. Just a small update of things that ive gotten done the last couple weeks. Im Still waiting on a few parts and pieces to make this thing run in the car, but thats par for the course. The big thing is, progress is still being made
Very Late night in the garage tonight. Finished up the battery shut off in the trunk. only thing to do in terms of battery wiring is run battery cable to the starter and crimp those ends. Spent a little while on putting that braided wire loom around the wires in the dash to clean up around the fuse block. Did a little bit of wiring for the courtesy/ dome lights as well just have 1 wire that needs run for those to be completed as well
Look into wiring in constant duty solenoids...that will only allow the the power cable to be hot while its cranking ..much safter
Just about finished retrofitting the vintage air controls into the buick climate control housing. Fingers crossed that everything works as it should once power is applied to it
