Wiring the Beast
by Frank Colgoni
   
 

With the insulation completed, we can move on to the wiring. In article 16, we introduced you to our wiring kits. Specifically, the Ron Francis Wiring main panel and the Telorvek fuel injection wiring system by The Detail Zone.

Later, in article 32, we showed you the area between the cabin and the trunk with some of the components in place. After that, we made some changes to accommodate some additional "stuff". As you'll see, it's now populated to the max but very tidy. Virtually every square inch has been utilized.

We'd like to acknowledge the workmanship of Scott Forbes of Lowdown Hot Rods. He was meticulous in routing, bundling, layout and termination of our wiring.

 
We'll start off by reviewing what we have facing trunk-side out

From the left: on top we have our Custom Autosound Secretaudio head unit
followed below by a Custom Autosound 10 disk CD changer followed
by a Ron Francis Wiring Advantage panel. To the right is an Air Ride
tank and below is our battery box.
 

Picking up from the Air Ride tank and battery is the Telorvek fuel
injection wiring distribution/computer interface unit.
 

In the top left (driver's rear quarter) is the Air Ride compressor.
 

And, in the top right (passenger rear quarter) is the remote wiper motor.
 
All together, it looked like this before wiring.
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The Telorvek unit before wire distribution
 

The main fuse panel
 

First to get run are the battery cables.
They are fed through our wire troughs (see article 32).
 


The technique with the Telorvek kit is to run the wire from the ultimate termination
point back to the panel. Our longest termination point was the throttle body.
Everything else then follows according to the instructions.

 

After running everything back we ended up with huge collection of wires.
Not to fear however as every wire is marked. As you can see, there
is plenty of wire when you order the longer wire kit.
 

You can see the wire trough becoming populated with the additional wires.
 

After some trimming and termination and bundling things are looking pretty neat.
 

Similarly, the wires in the cabin are bundled.
 


The main panel is treated to the same tidy arrangement.

 


At the firewall, everything passes through three openings and the balance
of the wiring goes up under the dash. What isn't shown is a number
of wires that are routed through the frame rail to the very front of the car.
No wires run underneath the vehicle.

 

Almost there
 

Gauge wiring that will be connected to the Ron Francis Wiring harness.
 

Detail of the terminal numbered addresses
and printed wires at the Telorvek panel.
 

One of two Ron Francis grounding junctions that we used.
 
 

And from the cabin side HERE

Both the Ron Francis Wiring and Detail Zone (Telervek) components once again proved easy to install and terminate. Everything makes sense and the instructions are very straightforward and logical.

 

While we're under the dash, here's a look at our Smart Parts
combo hood and trunk release handles.