My Engine Bay Renovation Thread, AE111 ECU conversion, wire tuck, and more... Options

[uberschall]

+1 on leaving it in the trunk. what kind of terminals are you using? do you have a picture of them? i just got all the cable i need for the relocation, but i haven't found a good set of remote terminals yet.

harness is looking pretty good. i'm really looking forward to seeing the end result.

[Coomer]

Today I mounted my temporary battery, remote terminals, and a coolant reservoir.





There's my temporary battery, stolen from a broken riding lawnmower. It's in there so that I could build my battery mount and so that I have a power source to test all my new wiring. My new battery will be almost the exact same size, so it will work out really well. I plan on running a NRG-Cell racing battery, and it's one of the last things I have left to order.

And that mount is plenty strong, and will only be stronger once I modify it a bit more.







There are my remote battery terminals. I'm using Summit Racing remote terminals that were $16 or so I think. To mount them, I cut, bent, drilled, and painted a piece of 16-gauge steel.





And finally, there is my coolant reservoir, from a Toyota Paseo. I'm not so sure that I like the way that I ended up mounting it. I may end up finding a different reservoir and mounting it differently, but we'll see. What do you guys think?

[tonytutino]

thats pretty sick looking, how do those remote battery terminals work?

[Coomer]

thats pretty sick looking, how do those remote battery terminals work?

They're just wired directly to the hidden battery terminals. Red goes to positive and black to ground. It'll allow me to easily jump my car or others' cars and things like that.

[uberschall]

looks really good.

hope you don't plan on relying on that lawnmower battery in the winter, tho!

yet another question: if i put my battery in the trunk, and mount remote terminals like those in the engine compartment, and i only run the positive lead to the front, grounding the battery in the back...what do i connect the negative remote terminal to?

[Coomer]

looks really good.

hope you don't plan on relying on that lawnmower battery in the winter, tho!

yet another question: if i put my battery in the trunk, and mount remote terminals like those in the engine compartment, and i only run the positive lead to the front, grounding the battery in the back...what do i connect the negative remote terminal to?

Thanks. As I said, the lawnmower battery is only temporary and my new battery will be ordered Monday hopefully.

If your battery is in the trunk, you'd connect the negative remote terminal to any solid ground.

[Bitter]

its still a good idea to run a ground to the front of the car for the engine/pcm. both need a good clear strong ground.

[Coomer]

its still a good idea to run a ground to the front of the car for the engine/pcm. both need a good clear strong ground.

The chassis of the car is a just as good of a conductor as any wire...all you really need is a solid ground to the chassis from the battery and then a solid ground from the engine/ecu to the chassis.

[Bigmeanbulldog55]

I didn't think you could mount a coolent bottle low like that. I thought it would spill out all the time just from the pressure of gravity.

[Valo666]

coom..thouse battery terminals look gangsta lol. I like that idea.

[Coomer]

I didn't think you could mount a coolent bottle low like that. I thought it would spill out all the time just from the pressure of gravity.

See, I'm not sure if I can. To me, it seems like it'd work though. The stock reservoir is pretty much in the same spot, except it has a tall fill spout. Instead of the tall fill spout, I'll just have a longer piece of tubing from the radiator to the reservoir. The amount of tubing will be the same as factory pretty much, so I don't see why it wouldn't work. But please, inform me, because I'm not sure on this.

coom..thouse battery terminals look gangsta lol. I like that idea.

Thanks.

I got my clutch in the mail today...might install it tonight. I can re-use flywheel bolts, right? And what sort of Loctite should be used on them?

[Valo666]

i wouldnt reuse them..and i would use red loctite. I would say go with a good set of APR ones.

[Bigmeanbulldog55]

I got my clutch in the mail today...might install it tonight. I can re-use flywheel bolts, right? And what sort of Loctite should be used on them?

I reused mine, and then they broke and I had to buy a new flywheel and clutch. But you're not making the torque my mighty 5sfe is, you might be alright. I really wouldn't leave it to chance though.

[Coomer]

Thanks for the input guys...I'll have to see if the dealer has them.

Also, just to confirm, these are the correct cylinder numbers, right? I just need to confirm that my injector wiring is correct before I loom up the engine harness.

[Bitter]

i think that is correct, do your injectors batch fire in pairs or sequentially?

[playr158]

i know on the 7afe....

the outter 2 cylinders were up, when the middle 2 where down

[Coomer]

Today I got a lot done. I started by dropping the flywheel off to get resurfaced.



Two hours and $34.08 later, there's what it looks like.



I then removed the damaged studs from the header. I let the studs soak in PB Blaster for a few hours, then two of them I was able to remove with vice grips. The third one wouldn't budge, so I took the angle grinder to it and ground down two of the sides. Then I stuck in the vice and turned the header and it came right off.

I then proceeded to work on the interior.



There's the interior with the heater and blower stuff, dash support, and dash itself. I'm going to hold off on putting the rest of it in until I can confirm that my all of my wiring changes are working correctly.



There's how I ran my four gauge wire into the car. There's a little nipple on the grommet that I just cut off, and then the wire slides right through. :thumbup:



And finally, I painted this motor mount so it'll look a bit better in the bay.

My flywheel bolts will be ordered tomorrow, so hopefully they come by Friday and I can get the motor back in this weekend.

[Valo666]

looks good coom. Nice shiny flywheel. Are you gonna wrap your headers? or paint em? or both?

[Bitter]

looks good coom. Nice shiny flywheel. Are you gonna wrap your headers? or paint em? or both?

they look like mild steel, wrap would be a bad idea. i wonder how it'd run with the longer runners of the ebay header on there. looks like all it'd need is a flange swap. the longer runners might give it a little more torque, the diameter between the 2 looks about the same.

[tonytutino]

there would be something funny about yellow headers (granted you painted them yellow) but then again it'd look pretty presidential at the same time... you dont see alot of that.