I'm currently in the middle of a ghetto head swap on my 86 ETA. Leaving the bottom end totally stock, and slapping all i parts up top (plus a reground 272 cam, bigger injectors and an SSSquid chip). I currently have the new head on the motor, and the wire harness sitting in place, and starting to hook it up. Got to the starter and ran into my first problem.
The starter on the car uses a single bolt terminal for positive, and a single spade terminal for negative. The new wire harness I have has the same positive cable, but then 2 eye bolt type negative wires. How the heck to I connect this to my starter? Do I have to splice the spade connector onto one or both of them? There is a 2nd bolt terminal on the starter that the stock harness didn't connect to. But the eyes on the new wires aren't big enough to fit on the bolt.
Second thing I am worried about. I hear a lot of the how to's say you need to swap the water pump pulley, but some don't mention this. What the truth here? I was planning on keeping my old style complete cooling system, since everything in it is only about a year old and less than 5k miles. So the plan was to re-use everything, and then when its time to replace, convert to the later style cooling system.
Third thing I'm unsure of is sensors. Again, some lists say you have to swap all sensors, some don't. Obviously I need to switch the crank position sensor, and I think its the oil level sensor has a different plug if I'm not mistaking. But aren't all the temp sensors the same? Well the ones that are there, the ETA uses more than the later ones. Again, they are all fairly new in my car, so I would prefer to just keep them.
Last thing is ECU. Again, some say any 1.3 Motronic will work, others say it has to be 173 or whatever. I have a 380 from a think a later model vert. any reason it won't work?
Thanks
The starter on the car uses a single bolt terminal for positive, and a single spade terminal for negative. The new wire harness I have has the same positive cable, but then 2 eye bolt type negative wires. How the heck to I connect this to my starter? Do I have to splice the spade connector onto one or both of them? There is a 2nd bolt terminal on the starter that the stock harness didn't connect to. But the eyes on the new wires aren't big enough to fit on the bolt.
Second thing I am worried about. I hear a lot of the how to's say you need to swap the water pump pulley, but some don't mention this. What the truth here? I was planning on keeping my old style complete cooling system, since everything in it is only about a year old and less than 5k miles. So the plan was to re-use everything, and then when its time to replace, convert to the later style cooling system.
Third thing I'm unsure of is sensors. Again, some lists say you have to swap all sensors, some don't. Obviously I need to switch the crank position sensor, and I think its the oil level sensor has a different plug if I'm not mistaking. But aren't all the temp sensors the same? Well the ones that are there, the ETA uses more than the later ones. Again, they are all fairly new in my car, so I would prefer to just keep them.
Last thing is ECU. Again, some say any 1.3 Motronic will work, others say it has to be 173 or whatever. I have a 380 from a think a later model vert. any reason it won't work?
Thanks
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