Project Silver, PIC HEAVY

[Longyear]

Very fast progress! I think you only started taking the dash out on thur I think, and now you've stripped a ton more stuff out, and put (a limited amount lol) back together

Looking really good, but oooooohhhh no heater!!! (or no blower in the summer). I suppose in the summer you'll just have to open your window hatches and drive faster! ...... but a cold car. Unless you're not planning on using the car in the winter.

Either way, good, brave, work!

 

[ScubaSteve]

im going to be getting a roof vent i think

today was going in a tidying up direction, started off by removing the loose sound deadning that was trapped behind the ecu bracket

drilled out the rivets on the housing

slid off brakcet to reveal (dive) ecu

ecu removed

bracket removed, along with sound deadning behind it

ecu all back together

next back to this fun job of removing stuck on sound deadning, think this is the last bit on the car, and proved to be the shittest to remove

halfway into it, this stuff was double layered

all off and car a mess again lol

tidied up the large bits and white spirit to remove the glue

wiped down and cleaned up

mounted my diag port here

tested and works ok with my blue tooth dongle, can still communicate with ecu fine

so thats really where i had to leave it, cant hoover up because of all the snow on the ground, and cant route the wrapped loom because i have to wait for my large p clips to arrive, not sure where to put the isolater switch atm, might have to make a panel for it from plastic of something, bright ideas on a postcard.

weighed some stuff

bag of removed sound deadning

heater matrix housing

dash

plus im going to estimate about 5kgs in various other bits of plastic, loom, and the heater matrix itself, gives around 27kgs as a rough guideline

 

[PumaJay]

wow that stuff weighs alot! looking good! your braver than me taking the heaters out! fair play!

 

[slayllian]

your cars going to blow away in the wind steve!

 

[ScubaSteve]

i love u

 

[Bentleya]

Looking really good Steve , going to be a fantastic track beast once your done .

 

[yippeekiay]

Excellent work mate - this thing is really going to fly now. Being so light that may actually be literally speaking too....lol.

 

[jboy01]

FFS! Slow down steve i feel ashamed at the lack of progress on mine

 

[ScubaSteve]

Lol get cracking

 

[jboy01]

Am on it!! ha ha

 

[ScubaSteve]

starting to come together now, my p clips arrived which meant i could start mounting this loom out of sight, still some wires that need tidying but they are for switches that i cant yet mount and my oil pressure guage. Im waiting for a piece of aluminium to arrive so i can make a switch panel, which will also mount my isolator switch in

stalks back on, steering column reconnected etc

steering wheel back on

then had a tidy up and hoover, and how it all looks now, most of it done (the isolator switch isnt staying there)

underneath showing the new loom

so we have gone from this

to this

all the sound deadning patches etc will be sprayed up when the cage has been fitted

 

[evilrob]

Looking epic, Mr. Williams. Your thread makes me happy every time I look at it. :thumbs:

Not in the way you're thinking, though. OK, it is.

 

[ScubaSteve]

Lol good

 

[Longyear]

Aye, certainly looking like a machine now Might need to keep that white heater in there though eh, it's supposed to be -15 in parts of the country tonight. :!:

 

[mikeandthat]

Wow Steve! Your car has really started to become a lot more focused since you've got a different car for the road. It's brilliant!

Seeing you conquer the wiring loom so quickly was enough to force me to make a start on mine. I've been avoiding it for weeks and weeks.

Could you have a look at my thread to see if you could tell me what a couple of things are? I labelled up most of it easy enough. Removing the original tape was not very nice though - my hands have never been so sticky!

Oh yeah. It's here: http://www.projectpuma.com/viewtopic.php?f=64&t=14404&start=50

 

[ScubaSteve]

few more jobs done

first up join these pipes together, need to mount this properly somewhere

then cut a square piece of plastic out

sikkaflex around the edge of the hole

stuck down, airtight seal

then drilled a 28mm hole in my sheet of alu i bought

and attached in the car this will be the housing for the isolator, and some switches and maybe a small volt dial, will look less random when labelled up etc

 

[ScubaSteve]

figured id stop being lazy and went and put that trim stuff on

 

[Neil]

Right, I've cleared out all of the juvenile comments. Further irrelevent comments, digs, jibes and sarcastic replies will also be deleted.

Please keep things civil.

 

[ScubaSteve]

i think we all need to calm down now

 

[PumaJay]

:grin: glad the thread continues! apart from mine its my favourite puma!

look forward to more updates