Well thank you sir, I'm happy to hear my ancient thread is still giving people a few ideas. What problems are you having with the wire tuck, I may be able to help a little bit.
Actually the issues is my soldering gun..maybe just me. Its been years since I have done any. Been bugging some buddies to stop by and help, but always ends up with us just drinking. just need to sit down and soldering and secure them in the fender. Planning to place the fuse box next to the brake booster.
I've read that the Ls series wants good grounding to work properly also
Yeah way too many if you ask me. I still have to do batt neg to chasis, engine to firewall and then engine to "frame". Not a whole lot as those are relatively short. Might come close on needing more wire though. I had initially ordered 50' of 0/1 wire and it seems i only have maybe 4-6 left.
Here are some pics of the fuel lines completed and then me mocking up the turbo to try and figure out downpipe. It sure is tight!
Here is my next dilemma, maybe someone can bounce some ideas. Basically how to motor sits I had to cut the mounting tab for the steering rack, can address the securing it. My concern is to get a fitting on there for the line. below are some photos of how tight it is.
I know a straight fitting will not work. I can not find any 90's that were the 16mm on each end or 16mm to 6AN. Best I could find was a banjo fitting that looks like the below. Not sure on depth and such but looks super tight. Options with this fitting depending on what clearance it needs; 1. Could grind some off of the oil pan right there 2. If more is needed than I think could be cleared from the pan, take the rack and cut down that stub whatever it might be 1/4" or so. Seems there is quite a bit of depth on that where it wouldn't be an issue.
Now the only other thing I can think of is how the steering rack has those four bolts is to undo these and turn it where the fittings are straight down or turn it 180 where they are facing the front of the vehicle and just drill access hole through the cross member and nothing fancy on the fittings. My only concerns here is if the range of motion is the same?
I know this seems like a lot of work for power steering, but it is one of my requirements for a car. I have decided to put the turbo kit on the back burner until I finish the below list of items.
Finish wire extension/tuck/mount fuse box
Plumb power steering lines
Mount tranny cooler/plumb lines
Shifter linkage to tranny
Buy/Mount/plumb oil cooler
Those are my big things that would potentially cause fitment issues within the engine bay for when building the hot side. Can't really do much for cooling lines until hot side is done. If turbo for sure goes on passenger side then I will need to get a straight neck for water pump and then potential will pull the straight hose ends off of the water pump and do some tight 90's where the water lines go under the manifold. But if i mount it on the driver side then would potentially need oval piping so it is not as deep for clearance issues.
Also I knew some type of coilovers/strut/shock combo would be needed but was attempting to get it running first before this, definitely will need it before hand. Fronts are bottomed out. So that is also on my radar of finding something.
If anyone wants details on anything specific or pics, just lmk.