86 eta 5.0 swap...

[Elysian]

I haven't really figured out the goal yet, streetable is definitely part of it though.

[Jb325is]

Bold move on the full harness! Looks pretty straightforward with that Painless setup. Maybe I missed it but what's the end use goal for this thing? Streetable track car?

When I was younger and worked in a body shop, a few of the guys there and their buddies were into turbo Fox body Mustangs... Pretty simple turbo setup and a mild build 302 would easily make 450+ whp and up.

[Elysian]

Finally started running the new wiring harness, installed the fuse block in the same place as the stock unit. This one isn't really meant to be in the engine bay but I'm not anticipating this car seeing water, though I can easily make a housing for this as well.

Ran the main wire bundles roughly where they need to go and started wiring up the headlights. I have euro headlights but don't want to spend all the money on the euro wiring harnesses, so I'm rewiring the caps for each light directly instead of using a connector.

Will keep plugging away on this when I can, hopefully doesn't take ages to finish. I need to buy some loom wrap.

[Elysian]

Bought a car hauler today.

[Elysian]

Finally towed with the Jeep today, it wasn't bad. Could use some sort of load leveling in the rear, but otherwise it towed this like nothing was there.

[AWDBOB]

Loving the progress. The harness will be super nice when it's all finished!

[Elysian]

Removed the dash and entire wiring harness from the car today.




What came out:



What's going in:



The old harness was in bad shape, so many of the connectors crumbled when I touched them, so a new harness will be a welcome addition. This allows me to only have what I need in the harness as well, so it'll be much simpler in the end.

[Elysian]

Someone around here was selling an On3 SN95 Mustang 5.0 turbo kit for a damn nice price, decided to pick it up after checking it out.






Also came with this, though I'm not sure I'm gonna use it:



The headers exit out the front like I have to do already on my E30, so this is going to be a solid kit for the build. Should fix issues I was having trying to figure out how to run the exhaust too.

[moatilliatta]

Got some elbow room now!

They fill up quick!

[2mAn]

Quite a bit more space in that garage, nice!!

[Elysian]

Got my E30 at my new home in Ohio

[Elysian]

Pulled it out into the driveway to mess with the HOA before we move The truck hauling it to Ohio will be here today or tomorrow. Also washed it a little bit, got most of the sawdust off it.

[Elysian]

Did some good work on the Jeep today. Replaced the old backup camera with a new one, replaced the grungy steering wheel (which had a cheap leather wrap put over the original leather) with a stock vinyl wheel, replaced one of the 12v outlets with a dual USB (one for data to the stereo and one for power only), fixed the steering wheel buttons not working on the stereo, added the OBD2 data to the stereo for the gauge screen, and cleaned the heck out of the interior.

[2mAn]

The car that started this thread is now gone, my buddy hauled it off a bit ago. Glad it's going to a new owner who will have the time and will to work on it. I bet it'll be on the road again this year.

Have him start a thread here too! It will be cool to see what happens with it

[Elysian]

Picked up a winter beater/tow rig for the E30 today.






It's a 2005, has the 5.7l Hemi V8 and 4x4. Has 146k miles on it, runs flawlessly, drives great. Also traded our Golf 2.5 in on it as well, since we don't need to bring that to Ohio.

It's rated to pull 7200lbs, so more than enough headroom to haul my E30 or Miata to track days. It's been in central Texas its whole life so not a speck of rust on it. This specific configuration is kind of a unicorn in this area, most people are speccing these RWD or with smaller engines. Pretty excited about it. Going to go through it a bit, do some fluid changes and just check it over in general before we drive it the 1500 miles to our new home next month.