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Nice going Steve, but... I think your engine is upside down!

I thought there was something odd going on when I took the cam cover off and found just one very large camshaft with roddy things connected to it

hope you've got a good memory

Yeah about that........hmmm
I took the dash out over a week ago, I labelled absolutely nothing eek.
But I do have the full 88 page wiring manual so that will have to do.

Interesting thread Steve, keep up the good work.

Wouldn't you be better moving the engine bay fuses inside the car, rather than running approx 5m worth of cable to the boot?
You also do realise that an electric power steering pump, still needs to connect to the steering rack to pump oil through it.

Something worth bearing in mind.

Yeah It's just that the fuses are inches away from the battery for a reason.
And yes I know about the hydraulics to the rack lol. It's something I've seen done on a few pug gti track cars.

The main fuses are close to the battery to protect the car against fire; a fuse blows if there is a short circuit upstream to prevent the wires in the circuit overheating.

The closer they are to the battery, the less wire is unprotected, so usually a good idea.

Though on my kit, the battery is in the back but the fuses are in the front. Two 3/4 inch thick cables run fore and aft.. unfused, but very unlikely to be damaged unless something destroys the car to get to them.

The project's going the right way.

Well done.

How's the Marea going? There's a clip of the guy putting the 2.4 diesel in his Coupe and the engine does sound good.

Thanks, marea is going great
It's now wearing a coupe front roll bar and alloys, two new cv joints and bottom arms. I cleaned the mat, repaired a leaky inlet pipe, replaced the oe fuel line clips with new hose clips.
The biggest improvement came from binning the halfords floor mats and finding another inch of throttle travel, now it pulls like it was meant to. It did belch out the biggest cloud of black you ever saw but I guess it had not seen full power for so long.
It's cleared up nicely now and I've fitted an egr blanking plate which has eradicated smoke almost completely.

The handling is so much improved going from an 18mm front roll bar to the coupe 24mm job. The coupe wheels look awesome on it and also help the handling.
Just needs springs and dampers doing and perhaps a decent rear roll bar, but I'm so pleased with it now.
I think it needs a remap next and the inter cooler replacing with a coupe one instead of the stock double pass oe one.

Been a while since I was on the forum and was great to catch this thread. Love how you can do all this stuff. I'll be trying an oil and filter change this month and hope to expand my skills from there.

Thanks Linton, I wish I had the balls to do your job. Some of us were born to shine and some of us were born to lay under fiats in a dark garage grazing knuckles and swearing at inanimate objects.