anyone have an engine bay that has the majority of wires hidden or have pictures of said vehicles.............. i'm trying to go through and get my engine bay as clean as possible by hiding all of my wires and as many of the boxes as possible. just would like to see what everyone else has done or seen.


no empty engine bays either guys!!

 

That's a rough gig Kandied. I had most of my wires hidden when I first dropped my engine in BUT as I would have problems I would end up pulling up the wires to fix/mod things. Now, it's not that clean looking anymore. When I get around to the dual TBI, I'm going to try again.

S.

 

I'll have to take some more photos under the hood for you, I have a car show this weekend, so I'll try to get some for you.

 

You can't really see any of my wiring, I have one large black loom tucked in the back that runs from underneath the heater box, behind the engine and then under the brake booster and MSD box. The only wires I have on the engine is a small thin black loom for the alternator, and one wire running thru some aluminum fuel line under the headers for a temp sender. But that said I am carbed, and I got rid of all the unecessary wiring on the car.

None of the pics I have show it very well.

 

sweet I love your car.

 

There really isn't a lot you can do with a TPI car to hide the wiring. On mine I put the injector wiring behind the runners, and the wiring that runs along the valve covers was tucked into place at the base of the runners before the valve covers were installed so that their visibility was kept to a minimum.

 

Since I removed all the emissions crap, I have a fairly wire tidy TPI engine bay.

 

See, you can actually see the passenger side valve cover!

 

There are some pictures of a car with a boxed engine bay.
I am going to see if I can find them since I haven't seen them, just heard about them.

 

plenty of old hot rods use tpi engines with no problems....i guess it just depends on how dedicated you are to the project. some nice looking bays there!

 

This is my motor as of three weeks ago, the alternator wiring, and the neg battery cable are hidden alot better now.....

Now I'm off to find some more wire loom.....

 

OOPS! I forgot the pic....

 

Heres a real clean tpi unit!:hail:

 

RU-QWIK's engine bay is pretty clean

 

Second view

 

About as close to empty as I can get.

 

85maroz28, that's exactly what i'm talking about....

 

1BAD91Z--- what kind of Hotchkis STB is that? I mean what color is it? Is it the signiture series one? If it is, they say it is silver but that doesn't look silver. How do you like it? -89IRO

 

Finally, someone else who has a Chevy orange engine!:hail: :hail:

 

My engine bay

 

oops

 

need a better picture....that's too close up.

 

The majority is clean and wire free.

 

Mine is fairly wire free...

 

other side.. a/c isn't wired yet...

 

And some that make mine look like crap (though not 3rdgen)..

 

sorry dial-uppers

 

 

 

 

Last one, I promise :hail:

 

Any idea who makes that accessory mount kit that is used by the last few cars (Black, Yellow and Red)?

 

Deadbird, your engine bay is pretty damn clean! good job man Any tips an where you placed stuff, like the relays where the MSD box is now? Or is is b/c your car is a firebird and stuff was already moved around a bit? let us know please

 

probuably from here

http://www.marchperf.com/

nick

 

Thank you 86. The biggest tip is patience to move all the wiring out of sight . My wiring started out a tangled web just as any other f-body's harness is. Every wire has been cut and relocated. I moved the relays where the MSD is to the inner fender opening where the airbox (that might get finished sometime) is. The EVAP stuff is in the same area. I welded a strap to the frame to hold the canister in place. Most all the ECM wiring now runs through the transmission tunnel and down the center of the intake. I have turned the injectors towards the center of the intake to hide the plugs as well. The headlight module has been moved to the inside of the car also. None of it is all that difficult, just very time consuming. I really hated looking at wires GM just threw at the motor and plugged in though so I didn't mind much.

 

Nice work! Thanks for replying back. If it is one thing i have learned so far, it is that patience is key when dealing with this stuff. later

 

89IRO. - It is a Hotchkis signature series STB. Sig. series color is Gun-metal metallic silver (I think).