A journey through the process of turning an ordinary classic car into a modern, pro-touring machine - all of today's amenities and Vette-like handling.
Saturday, October 5, 2013
Power Steering Hoses (September 26, 2013)
This is the power steering hose kit from DSE. All that is required is cutting them to length and adding a compression fitting to one end of the high pressure line.
Completed high pressure line.
Both lines installed. The return line uses a worm clamp concealed in a cover. DSE supplies a hard line adapter for the high pressure line at the pump.
And while I was thinking about it...I had purchased an ARP balancer bolt a while back and still needed to torque it down.
250 lbs!
Wiring - Alternator & Starter (September 24 - 25, 2013)
This is the 6 ga. alternator charge wire. It runs from the positive bulkhead connector along the oil pan up to the front of the engine.
Starting from the firewall.
Over the starter along the oil pan.
Across the front of the oil pan (viewed looking up from the ground).
Up to the alternator (again, looking up from the bottom).
An additional clamp was added after this pic.
Terminating at the alternator.
Next up is the starter leads between the bulkhead connector and the starter.
This is the positive cable, 2 ga.
Here the solenoid lead is added and both are inserted in some DEI ThermoTec sleeve. The header tubes are pretty close.
Kind of tough to make out but this is looking up at the bulkhead connectors. The black cable is the ground lead to the engine block.
This is the starter solenoid bulkhead connector (viewed from inside). I covered most of this earlier but was waiting on the parts to make the connector. I used 2 nylon shoulder washers and a short piece of brass 10-32 all thread to make up the bulkhead connector.
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