I finished the radiator mounts, and have moved on to evaluating the C6 Corvette exhaust manifolds. They look like they’re going to work, buy aren’t going to be quite as simple as I was hoping. Oh well, nothing should be considered simple when doing a swap like this.
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So, I made one bracket for the cooling fans this evening. Then tonight, I made the other bracket for the passenger’s side. Due to the water outlet, I wasn’t able to duplicate the driver’s side bracket, so I had to rethink it. Geez, if the second bracket didn’t turn out way better than the first. I’ll be redoing the first one to duplicate what I did on the passenger’s side.
On a side note I guess I found my motivation to work on the car and it turns out it might’ve been an itemized to-do list which allows me to maximize the use of my little 30min-1hr excursions to the garage. It seems to keep me focused on the individual items that need to be done instead of sweating the big puzzle.
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Friday evening I found out I had bronchitis, which left be unable to do any significant work on the car. Anyway, the largest item I tackled this weekend was re-routing the engine harness. My first attempt at this, I had routed the primary trunk of the harness in front of the ABS pump, before pushing it through the firewall. There are two issues with this. The first being that it’s unsightly with the harness weaving around that pump like that. The second is that the harness would’ve been passing right over the exhaust manifolds. No thank you.
Instead of trying to fish the harness back out of the firewall, I decided to unhook everything from the engine and just work in the engine bay. Fortunately, everything went smoothly and after about 20 minutes of work, I had the harness routed in a very neat path along the firewall and behind the ABS pump. It’s barely even visible when looking in the engine bay.
Besides that I was able to mount the clutch bleeder valve, install a few heat shields, tighten down the bolts that I left loose while positioning the engine and start work on installing the radiator and fans.
The radiator went in easily, but the fans are requiring a few modifications. Nothing major, so I should be able to get that completed one night this week.
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I’m getting close to the point where I will need to connect the the cooling system. I’m going to start out with simple upgraded components without going to anything truly custom. The radiator is a Mishimuto Aluminum Radiator that a local guy was selling. I got a good deal on an unused one so I thought it was worth the risk to try it out. I also just picked up a set of Flex-a-lite 220 low-profile fans.
If this isn’t enough to keep the engine cool, I’ll work on adding additional ducting, but I hope to avoid that weight if possible.
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I started on the wiring harness this past weekend. So far, I have ran both the GM Engine harness and the Nissan ABS/Dash harness through the firewall. Later this week (if it cools off enough), I will be splicing the two harnesses together, and start routing it around the engine and in the dash.