My 72 Comet Build.....

Little progress made today, at least it seams that way..... I wanted to get my Holley ECU mounted today, I tried it everywhere under the dash possible and ended up with the first place I thought of.....:doh: It allows the most space around it, it's just a bitch of a place to make a bracket for..... I made a couple cardboard templates, then went over to work and bent one up..... To my surprise it was really close to being right, but not good enough..... I marked up the changes I need, I will make another one tomorrow and give it a try.....

I have been studying the wiring diagrams and have decided to take the relay and fuse out of the front of the Holley harness, so I cut the tape off the end of my unterminated harness..... That's as far as I got on that today.....




Here is the bracket I made today.....

 

I feel your pain...I've been looking to mount a panel with my Switch panel relay board, the Grid, and the Ignition box in the under dash area, and have been having a hard time coming up with something I like. The package tray looks like a good candidate at first glance...but it's not quite wide enough to mount any of that stuff the way I want it. Plus, I need to have access to the SD card port and USB cable plug in on the Grid. It's always something... I'm curious to see what you come up with. I'm not opposed to stealing a good idea

 

The ECU is going in the right hand side of the dash, problem is making any kind of mounting bracket for that area..... I like the area because there is a good amount of air space around it..... I made a new bracket this morning and tried it after work today, it fits in place pretty well..... I am using 2 of the dash pad studs up top to mount it, when I had it in there today I also located and drill the lower mounting holes as well as the ECU mounting holes..... I will get riv-nuts in all the necessary holes tomorrow, then clean it all up and paint it..... I will see what I can get for pictures once it's mounted in place.....

 

I got another mounting bracket made for the ECU Monday, this one fit perfectly so I cleaned it up and put riv-nuts in the mounting holes..... Then yesterday afternoon I put the ECU on the bracket and mounted the bracket under the dash.....






I also got the exhaust pipe finished from the down pipe to the muffler, I put a brushed finish on it just to give it a neutral look..... I also made a pattern for the muffler hanger I am going to make today.....

 

Maxx, here's a couple more pic's of the ECU mounting.....

 

Thanks! Looks like it fits perfectly...

 

No Problem..... Yeah, it fits really good.....

 

And yes...I'm looking forward to you getting your EFI system up and running. I'm wanting to put the Dominator system on mine...but I don't have someone real close to me that runs it. Just a little leery without having someone to pitch things off of when stuff goes sideways lol.

 

I got the hanger bracket fitted and welded on the muffler towards the end of the week..... Today I brush finished the muffler and put it back on the car, I also got the next section of pipe fitted and marked up.....




Next I removed the relay/fuse assembly from my Holley EFI harness, and separated the shielded wires(WBO2, cam and crank sensors) from the rest of the harnesses..... Then I put the harness in the car and routed the shielded wires through the firewall grommet I modified to fit these wires.....

 

Frank, far be it from me to criticize a build of this caliber.. but please tell me that's not a solid muffler mount.

 

I'm betting it is and shouldn't be an issue since the turbo is frame mounted.

 

Yes it is.....

Exactly, the turbo is solid mounted to the front frame..... The down pipe it mounted to a bushing and the tail pipe will be in a rubber mount which should allow for plenty of heat and contraction movement of the pipes..... There was not a lot of room for a hanger at the muffler because I have it so tightly mounted to the floor, plus there isn't going to be hardly any room with the 3.5" tail pipe going through there.....

 

Duh.. makes perfect sense now that I think about it. I breezed through too quick and just took that solid mounting at face value.

What type of motor and trans mounts will you be running?

 

No problem..... The trans mount is an Energy Suspension Urethane..... The motor mounts are sleeved tube with urethane bushings, they are very tight with just enough dampening to absorb any chassis noise.....

 

Got the cam, crank and WBO2 connectors all on the shielded wires..... Also tied them all up in position..... Put the starter on, check clearances and made the feed cable for it.....

Today's progress.....