It's alive!
Anyway enough about Billy's fashion statement, time for an update.
Yesterday I swaped out the old 220 engine and gearbox looms, and fitted the 320 looms in their place. The engine loom isnt that bad to do as it's mostly under the bonnet, the gearbox loom is a much larger job needing a some of the interior trim removing.
It was during stripping the interior out that Billy's footwear was discovered, but we'll get back to that later.
Today whilst the inside of the car is apart, I have fitted the loom and ecu for the cruise control. The ecu is now mounted in the passenger footwell next to the red airbag plug, and I'll be fitting the control stalk tomorrow. Whilst Billy was visiting today we've decided to fit an electricly adjustable steering colum, and run the wiring looms in preporation for the heated memory seats.
So with the engine wiring finished it was time to go for a start up. With the fuel pump relay removed and the coils unpluged, the engine was cranked over on the starter a few times till the oil pressure showed 1 bar on the gauge. Now with the coils and relay re-connected, she fired up on the fiest turn of the key. Epic.
The plan is to run the engine for an hour tomorrow, in order to bleed the cooling system of air and let the flushing oil work it's way around the engine. Then drop the oil and filter, and replace with a new filter and good old castrol engine oil.
That's all for today folks.
