Loud & Low 8th Gen Civic - Time to say good bye to her.

[thefourth]

I'm really impressed how much attention you are paying to the electrical. It's amazing how much people can overlook it. You've got a follower here bud.

[Kyblack76]

Scott,

That work, is uber sick. Under that hood. Fuck.

You did killer. I also LOVE the color choices.

Damn dude, you will pull SOTM for sure.

Great work kid. fuck me....

[scooter99]

Thanks guys. It means alot. Didn't get out there today unfortunately, I had a lot going on. But tomorrow I'll be back at it.

[bmxrideranton]

Wow Scooter, the wiring looks amazing! your attention to detail under the hood is incredible! love all the aluminum mounts! Sorry if i missed it, but where do you get the aluminum bars for the bus bars like on the alt?

[evermaxx]

Damnnnn! Love the look of the bay area!

[Twostrokeking]

Holy shit... wow

[Smoove]

OMG!!!! That wiring is sick. Love that alt terminal.

[scooter99]

Thanks guys. This morning I have 30 pages of documents to fill out for the new job. Then if I get time I'll get out and get the two runs to the back done, or at least see how much I need to order for the rest of it. I'm sure I don't have enough. I also need to paint the aluminum pieces. So I'll get started on that stuff this after noon. Tomorrow I have a full day, and Wednesday I have a full day. I may just be playing by Wednesday, but I'm not going to get my hopes up. We'll have to wait and see.

Wow Scooter, the wiring looks amazing! your attention to detail under the hood is incredible! love all the aluminum mounts! Sorry if i missed it, but where do you get the aluminum bars for the bus bars like on the alt?

Actually I got mine from a buddy, but here's a site you can get some at. http://www.metalsdepot.com/index.php?no_redirect=true

Also try ebay

[repooc]

Your build is looking awesome. super clean work and thanks for the tutorials.

[scooter99]

Thank you sir, glad I could be of some help. That's why i'm so detailed. Hopefully someone doesn't have to go through the troubles that I do on things.

To that, today was all trouble. I did manage to get a bit done, and I'm excited about what I got done, but man was it a slow slow process. I guess considering I spent the first half of the day doing paperwork for my new job, and didn't even get out to work on the car until noon, I should be happy with what I got done. But you all know me. Never enough time.

Let's see some pics already!! Ok Ok!

So I did some looking and testing and searching on the runs to the back. Sorry I didn't take many pics leading up to this, but it finally hit me that this was presumably going to work, so I decided to start off with the pics here. While I had dropped the front of the car, only to lift the passenger side of it, to get the front to back runs done, it just wasn't setting well with me that they were going to be exposed. When I got under the vehicle, yes I fit shut it, I thought to myself, "I wonder if I could go through the inside of the frame rail instead of next to it. Then I wouldn't need conduit to protect it. Then I looked down the edge of the car, and low and behold I found about 15 grommets that went all the way down. So this that you're seeing, is a "fish stick". It's like a fish tape for electrical except its straight and fiberglass and flexible. I use it all the time and love this thing.

I managed to get it all the way through with minimal turning, which was the point because if this could fit through pretty straight, then the cable could do the same. It was a challenge because there are a few walls in through the middle there, like under the door jamb, etc. So I had drilled out a hole in front, which you saw the red flash light, and I drilled the hole on the left side there you see next to the stick. I also drilled that hole because there is a pretty significant turn there to get to the back hole, and the stick just wouldn't turn that hard. However I knew there was enough room for the cable to.

So next I took some roamex, and taped it to the end of the stick.

Then fed it through the hole

And out the other end. Then I took the stick off, and pushed the roamex back into that small hole, and then fished it over to the larger hole. Now I have a make shift "fish tape" to pull the cable through. May not seem like much, but this took the better part of 2 hours to get done.

Next, at the front of the car, i taped up the roamex, which I stripped out down to one single strand of wire, to make less bulk, to the 2/0 cable. This was going to take an extra hand.

My extra hand. Isn't she beautiful! That's my daughter back off assholes!!!!

With the help of my daughter, we got it fed through! SUCCESS!!!!!

The entry point. Flash light there on the right.

Not the greatest pic but this is how it will route.

Up around the wheel well, and then through the front frame.

And into the fuse holder.