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

[scooter99]

Thanks buddy! I appreciate you following along. Thanks for speaking up!

I'm so excited to get the engine bay buttoned up! It'll be like a single completed component to check off the list! That means progress is being made! WOOT!

Again, thanks! Happy New Year!!

[FieroGrande]

I didn't know it was going to look so Damn nice under the hood. You picked out some sweet colors, you did a hell of a job on the alternator bar. I can't wait to see more

[Tecomah]

Looking killer

[Reed Farrar]

great work

[mbdblue]

really nice lookin stuff man. Diggin the battery tray and wire running

[scooter99]

Thanks guys. I'm done with the under hood wiring. It's up and running again, which pleases my wife as you can imagine! LMAO.

Pics uploading. I'll post them a bit later.

[scooter99]

Good progress today. Finished up the front of the car. Feeling pretty good.

Let's get onto some pics.

Time to get this cross member piece in. Remember those holes?

This is what they're for. Make sense yet?

I picked up some of this weather stripping, so I could put on the edges of the aluminum where the cables come in contact. They have the techflex on them, but I just don't want to take any chances.

This one goes over the radiator hose.

Screwed it down in place.

Time to address the fuse holder bracket.

I removed the inner plexi of the holders. I couldn't get to the inner fuse screws with them on. The holders are too close together.

More stripping.

Then after putting it in, realized that it was almost sitting on the cables, so I thought I'd just put some on the bottom of the bracket too.

Boom! I kind of like this picture. It's like those cables under there are kind of like Peek-a-boooo!!!

Fuse holder for the run to the back.

Installed the front holder. This on is for the run to the front battery.

[scooter99]

Cables installed. Looks good to me!

Then I put the covers on. This bracket is done! Those things are soooo sexy! I love them!

Now you see what the zip ties on the cross member were for!

Look from the side.

Then I got the other cable run to the rear holder installed and the cover put on.

Connected the battery up and we're all good! We have power!

Painted ECU cover on.

Fuse panel cover on.

Then an overall view with the front cowl on and the cables finished up. Also the wire cover on the top of the engine that was painted is on too. Finished look!

See the cables on the bottom still peaking through the plexi! Looks soo much better in person!

Finished look of the battery area.

THIS PART OF THE PROJECT IS OFFICIALLY DONE!!! Well I need to clean the engine, which I did but didn't take pics yet. I'll do that tomorrow.

[SnowDrifter]

Haven't checked in on this in too long

Dude you are working some magic in here. I've never seen wiring look so nice

[scooter99]

Like an infomercial thought, "But wait there's more!"

While I was cleaning up I did a little bit to the rear deck trim piece. Check it out.

I didn't really like how the trim was starting out. So I had a different idea to go about it.

I decided to cut the radius out where the speaker grills go, and the area in between.

Like so

traced that area on some 1/4" mdf.

And cut it out.

Obviously this was the mdf that I used for painting my aluminum brackets. LOL But this is basically what I was looking for.

I put it back in the car, and traced out the port from under it. That was all I had time for tonight.

I'll continue on another day. Tomorrow I'm going to work on cleaning up the shop. It's an absolute disaster right now. I can't work under these conditions!!!

The idea for the panel though, is that I'll make a panel for the rear deck to go in there. Cut out the port area and leave it back from the port opening a bit. Then I can put some walls up around it, and make a separate panel, that I can put grill cloth over. This will hide the port, while not obstructing it, and then if I need to pull it out to show it, Then I just lift the grill piece. More to come on this!