Our F85 Power Tour Project

[PhillipM]

Got a little more finished on the Olds over the weekend. We got the LS6 put back in between the frame rails as well as the T56. I laid out the harness and started hooking things back up. I've also decided to upgrade from the standard Vintage Air wiring setup with a binary switch to running the AC through the ECU. This is to eliminate the rough idle when you first turn on the A/C. So I had to run the 5 additional wires that requires. I picked up a neat trick for marking wires that I'll show below. I don't remember who on LS1 tech posted it but it worked out great. Below are some pics..

For starters I decided to reshoot the doors in the Silver. Originally I had planned to just use rattle can clear to seal in the paint but it looked terrible and was very rough. So I marched back down to the paint store and grabbed a quart of matte clear. This turned out way nicer, and is what I used on the rest of the jambs.







Next even though we will have to take it all back off to put the doors on we threw the front fenders on the car so I can do some rewiring as well as I need to remake the brake lines to fit with my new master cylinder. It sure was nice to see it going back together for once.









Can you believe all of that fits on top of the stock glove box? I can't.. Haha



Also, here is the trick I picked up. I just put one end of my new wires in the vice and pulled them out. Then I ran a sharpie of contrasting color down the length. Viola, now my small stash of 5 or 6 different wire colors have many more options! Simple but I never thought of it.



I hope to get a bunch more done including redoing my under hood fuse/relay panel with an OEM level setup. I should have more pictures of that to come.