Minimalist engine bay
currently building my nova and i want achieve a minimalist look in the engine bay, i would like to relocate the coil, wiper linkage, washer bottle, hide all wire and has anyone done any heating mods, i dont really want that heater unit sticking out of my engine bay but i still want some form of heating, any ideas???
Coil is easy, either long king lead or mount down by the gearbox or under the inlet manifold like mine. Washer bottle is easy to move to the scuttle tray.
Wiring is a case of extending it and re routing it under the wings, wiper wise, try a ax/bx wiper or so first. To see if you are happy with it.. Heater not alot you can do sadly..
Mine, still have work to do tho. Still to many wires and pipes...
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Benn's is all very well hidden for a non carb car.
If you make a scuttle cover you can practically relocate everything into there.
This was mine although it wasn't running. Still had manifold to fit and was going to have bailey header & oil catch tanks...
You can also fairly easily change the wiring loom so that all your wires come out in the battery tray rather than in the bay. You can feed the wires to the lights etc down the inner wing and the rest of the wires stay in the scuttle to the bits you've relocated. Anything going to the engine you can take thru the hole that the battery wire goes through to the starter and its normally hidden by the inlet manifold.
im sorry but that is sexyOriginally Posted by Benn
Coil is easy, either long king lead or mount down by the gearbox or under the inlet manifold like mine. Washer bottle is easy to move to the scuttle tray.
Wiring is a case of extending it and re routing it under the wings, wiper wise, try a ax/bx wiper or so first. To see if you are happy with it.. Heater not alot you can do sadly..
Mine, still have work to do tho. Still to many wires and pipes...
How mininmal are you looking to go? Functional?
you missed the front panel
Pfft, there's strut tops and tie bars in that pic...
Cheers Dj, wanna geta bit more done tho.
All I wanted was a Pepsi, just one PepsiFar from suicidalStill I get them tendenciesBringing back them memories
That I really miss when I reminisce
you missed the front panel
Sprayer looked at me well odd when I asked him to mask it up! Wouldn't have matched the shonkyness of the rest of the car otherwise!
benn, that engine bay is inspiring mate, awesome, and its a turbo! when you smoothed off the inner wings how did youl fill the original gap? surely its too deep for fiberglass/filler? nice job... and simps, cheers
ok the wipers no problem, ill attack that when ive got some time, wires will be a struggle for me as im sh@te at all that but ill give it a go, thinking of removing washer bottle and washers all together, and ill move the coil down by the leg... sorted, wanna make my inner wing things smoth like bens. but i dont know what to do with this heater, maybe remove all original heating components except tubing that goes to vents, and mount a universal 12v heater behind dash and link it to vent, wire up to a switch and jobs a gooden??????
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