next part of the job was to get the wiring loom into place, first job was to cut 2 holes in the scuttle for the wiring loom to pass through from inside the scuttle into the engine bay, now the manual states to drill 70mm diameter holes, but i would recommend going slightly smaller around 68mm would be a good size, as the 70mm holes are a little bit to big and the grommet wont sit quite tight enough in the hole, i may have to apply some glue in places to hold them in.
Once the loom was passed through it was a case of again making sure every thing is run within convoluted tubing and then the time consuming job of running all the wires to the locations needed within the engine bay and making sure that the loom is well secured to the chassis, now at this point i do kind of regret not fitting more of the cable tie anchors in certain positions before installing the engine and the body work. this was mainly the chassis rail that runs along the inlet side of the engine, as its too tight to be able to get a drill or a rivet gun between the intake and the chassis rail, so i have had to resort to getting cable ties where i can around chassis rails.
once you have secured all the wiring running down the chassis rails i then moved further back to securing the fuse box, now i have decided to mount my fuse box centrally on the scuttle, i fabricated an ally bracket, same style as the one used to secure the bottom of the header tank and fitted a couple of riv nuts into it, then bolted the bracket on with M5 stainless dome bolts,
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