My Elio Alternate Project Is Underway.

[Mark BEX]

Mark,
Have you attempted a test body panel fitment to see how much the front is going to have to be modified to accommodate those struts? After seeing the front view it's got me curious.

I got a general idea, clearly the panels have to splay outwards, and on the inside of the panels is where the air is going to flow/escape out from the front through the radiator.

Does that make sense?

 

[Mark BEX]

Ughhh, my least favorite area of any vehicle, wiring.

Have the engine computer mounted and plugged in, lower picture.

 

[84mpg]

I sympathize….. get a headache just lookin’ at it. But hey, that’s what you’re getting paid big bucks for!

 

[JEBar]

oh my ...

.... making sense out of a nest of wiring like that is way beyond my paygrade

 

[Mark BEX]

you’re getting paid big bucks for!

? Say WHAT???

 

[3wheelin]

Ughhh, my least favorite area of any vehicle, wiring.

Have the engine computer mounted and plugged in, lower picture.

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That's "one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind" kinda stuff!

 

[msmith5150]

? Say WHAT???

Have you not received those fat paychecks yet? I heard they were in the mail...

 

[Coss]

Wiring? That's EZ, as long as you don't have to be upside down, been there, done that, way too many times.
It makes your eyes bug out, that's why I wear glasses, to keep my eyes in their sockets.

 

[Mark BEX]

Wiring? That's EZ, as long as you don't have to be upside down, been there, done that, way too many times.
It makes your eyes bug out, that's why I wear glasses, to keep my eyes in their sockets.

I originally trained as a Mechanic as a teenager, and at one time used to work in a British Bike restoration shop, including re-wiring from scratch, as well as a race and rally car builds. Very basic back then, lots of wires these days with all the sensors and computers ...

.........

Well most of the wiring loom is plugged in for the engine side of it, still some to go, but I have run across an annoying issue: The wires are too short because I have moved the steering wheel over some 3" or 4" relative to where it and the fuse box were in the 2 seat donor car.

The are some 15 connecting plugs that go into the back of the instrument panel, pictured left, mounted on the steering column, so I ain't changing them! I have to get creative with the mounting of the fuse box, pictured right, to make up some of the length deficit, and hopefully the only issue later will be that the stock wiring loom wires are too short to reach the headlights, shouldn't be hard to fix that, or you lot can just drive only in the daytime and save me the bother.

 

[msmith5150]

...shouldn't be hard to fix that, or you lot can just drive only in the daytime and save me the bother.