August 2011 - Routing the ECU cables

Limited amount of time to work on the car, or even update this blog, so we'll do four months' worth at once.

In August we tackled a job we'd been putting off for ages - routing the ECU engine wiring through to the engine bay.  It was of those "if only we'd plannned ahead and put more clips inside the tunnnel" moments and without them, the options were:

1. Take the wiring through the bulkhead (untidy)
2. Undo the cable ties in the tunnel for the main loom (hard to get at without risking damagine the loom)
3. Try to get some more clips in down the other side of the tunnel (hard to get the drill/riveter in)

We went for option 3, and it turned out slightly easier than it looked, and the end result was tidy:

After this, connecting the engine wiring was relatively "plug & play", although there's still one "spare" connector and the hole for the exhaust gas sensor to make.  Not sure if I'll do as others have done and get a replacement connector so it doesn't need a massive hole in the side of the body.