Hi everyone, I\'m wanting to tidy up the engine bay and I was wondering if you guys could help. what parts can I remove from the engine bay that I can get away with not using? Any help with this would be great.
Many thanks ben
Airpump and associated gubbins is a good start. It\'ll make your emissions higher but nothing that can\'t be sorted for MOT time. Then on the otherside you can remove the powersteering pump and bracket etc. This can be replaced with a Saxo/106 electric PS pump. Most people locate them under the passenger headlight.
Could remove the air con if its got it and you can live without it.
If you fancy going crazy you could play around with the different wiring looms and cut out anything you dont need anymore and move the fuse boxes to better places so not on show.
Then of course there\'s polishing everything and anything that can be polished :D
Adam
relocabbbte the battery to the boot
Thanks for your input guys, a friend of mine has hooked me up with a 106 power steering pump :) the battery has been moved behind the passenger seat and funnily enough i\'m an electrician by trade and I\'ve been getting urges to remove unwanted wires :) is it possible to remove any other parts such as the black tank in the upper right hand side of the engine bay?
How far do you want to take it? There\'s a lot that can be junked for minimum compromise.
I have removed:
ABS
Air Pump
a couple of turbos (and put a bigger one in ;))
All the stock turbo control gubbins
ABS
OMP
Stock PAS pump
Stock breather system
Fuel tank vent (now breathing under car)
In addition, I\'ve also:
Relocated all fan and light relays to under the wings.
Removed front relay box, run wiring for needed relays to new relays under inner wings
Relocated battery and stock fuse boxes to the boot
Rewrapped all the looms
Hidden electric PS pump down near driver\'s oil cooler, below chassis rail. Custom lines
Removed all boost take offs from UIM and using a variety of tees/lines from underneath UIM
Vented breathers to air through catch tank
Moved the brake lines from the firewall to under the subframe
Moved ignition amp, earth straps, supressor to inner wing.
Ground the air pump attachment of the WP housing.
Run the matrix coolant feed round the front of engine (this was needed due to turbo fouling)
Stripped all unneeded wiring out of engine bay horshoe loom, and bay loom.
And a whole load of other stuff I\'ve doubtless forgotten. But there are some starters for you.
Wow your engine bay must look amazing :) you have given me great plans. When you say you moved the fuel tank breather, would that be the black canister in the the corner of the engine bay? Thanks for your mega write up mate, great info :)
Did you take out everything to do with the ABS system?
All ABS came out, yeah.
Not a very good photo, and not finished, but currently looks like this:
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http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r30/Simon_r_hill/17062010390.jpg
I need to sort out the vacuum hoses on the passenger side, sort out the boost solenoid (it\'s hastily plumbed in for the run in), get some new custom pulleys, paint the alternator and TB, get some raiser plates for the strut brace (touches the IC hose ATM), duct up the IC, and do a load of other small bits ond bobs.
my main beef is the passenger side - it\'s a right mess there. The wiper motor is ugly as sin, I want to get some sort of cover fabbed up. Oh, and the turbo zorst housing is proper pig ugly too.
EDIT: weird, that angle makes it look like the IC look like it\'s on the ......, it\'s not at all. I measured :o
Do you use the car as a daily driver and if so are there any problems without abs?
Nah, I use it as a daily driveway ornament tbh :)
No problem at all without ABS - everything\'s come out except the ECU, which I\'ll do when I move onto sorting the interior and making that all posh next year :)
Pedal feel is a huge improvement imho :)
Ha Ha I am just wondering if I am gonna have any problems without it as a daily driver as I have heard mixed opinions.
Quote from: rotaryheaven;699941Wow your engine bay must look amazing :) you have given me great plans. When you say you moved the fuel tank breather, would that be the black canister in the the corner of the engine bay? Thanks for your mega write up mate, great info :)
Thats the charcoal canister I believe. Not sure if you can junk it or not but others have so I would guess you could.
Anyone got a write up for removing the ABS on an FC?
SiH
have any pics posted up somewhere of where everything is hiding at? i don\'t have much of an imagination
sorry for the thread jack