Andymccauley

The rear wheel wells are now welded, sealed with silicone sealant and topped off with some harbor freight bedliner. Tires clear the rear with about a 1/2"+ from the body, so the next adventure is lift because the front tires don't have enough clearance to turn.

You live in the area? Still allot to do, runs n moves but I still need a radiator, fans and haven't even begun to start wiring, plan on starting all that after vacation

Stitching the passenger side wheel well back to the body after cutting a few inches off.

Been working on this thing quite a bit lately a year or more later, kind of went on the back burner for awhile.... Been cutting up the body to fit 235/75R15 tires... Tacked the exhaust, it's done now, has some random fart can I had laying around on the end of it, O2 sensor welded in the J pipe I fabbed up 6 lug conversion is finished, learned one of my drum brakes is a gen 3 assembly, was having a really hard time finding brake shoes for it...

If only I had the time lol. I still gotta finish mine. Just got it running though..

This pile finally moved on its own power for the first time in awhile out of my garage lol. Got the fuel pump mounted and some wires ran to it zip tied to the hardlines. Plus a night time pic on its good side.

Here's a video, about the 3rd time I started it after realizing the return line was leaking at the firewall.. https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1808120115899415&id=100001043335691

I had the fuel supply and return lines backwards at the fuel rail, it lives! Still need a fuel filter though...

Hooked up the noid light and got injector pulse, won't fire though. got fuel, spark, injector pulse, I don't have an O2 sensor yet though.

Been awhile since I've even touched this thing. But made some progress yesterday. Got spark n fuel, not sure if the injectors are firing or not, might be missing a ground somewhere in the harness. So I changed all the fuel lines underneath and figured out where I want to mount the fuel pump. Gunna run wires to it from where the plug was on the EJ harness.

Haven't had anything to update for awhile had to put a new clutch in the daily VW Rabbit. Had a tranny seal blow out and coat everything in gear oil, causing it to slip. I'll get back to it soon.

The spacer I made out of 1/2" pipe and some longer m6x1.0 bolts, cut 2 peices of pipe to 5/8" roughly and had to back the cable adjuster out as far as physically possibly.

Depends on which route your going, just using the engine harness I imagine doesn't require alot of wiring. Where were you planning on mounting the fuel pump? I'm just gunna screw it into the frame rail near the gas tank.

The original wiring in this thing was a mess, switches wired everywhere and random wires here and there. The dash is almost cracked in half too plus all the gauges will read correctly, ya I know it's alot of work, I've already done it in my rabbit when the ABA was swapped in but I feel like it's worth the extra effort. Just need to splice in lights, blower motor, wipers and ignition. Extend the fuel pump wires and brake light switch wires. That is not the fuel pump I'm using lol. It was on the car when the Weber and ea81 were in it I just haven't removed it from the hardline yet. Don't worry, but good eye haha

This awesome peice of machinery. I ran into more than a few connectors that wouldn't reach with the cluster sitting where it should also the driver side front headlight wiring was a little too far away too. So I pulled all the wiring back out and ran it how I originally ran it but this time yarded the blower box out. Everything reaches now hopefully this is how it's going to sit for good for the most part anyway. Also put the plug wires in, put a oil filter and some oil in it too.