here are some pics after i completed the fuse box relocations; forgive me for the filthy engine bay, another thing to do when i get the time.

i also pointed out where i'm going to relocate my solenoids and how they look right now before i make the bracket.





here is also a nice dirty picture of her; i think this is the worst she's ever been



and here are the solenoids; i still need to make the U brackets but i just cut off the ends of the stock rack

 

got some better higher res pics:

 

Looks Good

Questions

How did you relocate it?
Where did you put the fuse boxes?
How did you route all the wires?

Pictures on routing and location would be great. :-)

 

i relocated the battery to inside the drivers side bin; that was one of the first mods i did to the car when i got it back in 2005, i completely remove the bin though so there is enough space for the fuse boxes.

basically i just cut the main fuse block, ran one wire at a time
if you look at your FD, there is an unused hole behind the splash guard right below where the front harness comes through; i used that hole to run the wires through the firewall and under the drivers side carpet/side sill.

i completely unwrapped the front harness to the point where it was completely bare; with that done it is easy to cut and run the wires.

i did the same thing for the drivers side engine harness connectors, cut and spliced and ran the up throught the hole by the igniter.

the front relay box i just put right behind the bumper b/c i only use maybe 3 relays in that box, i might relocate it to a better place but that was the easiest at the moment.

the cooling relays i actually hid inside the frame under the fender, there's a hole in the fender that fits them perfectly. i felt pretty clever doing that.

the thing that i felt was completely ridiculous was the airbag sensor wire ran right through the engine bay; i didn't even have to splice to relocate that wire, i just ran it through and up along the fender like the rest of the front harness and the other airbag sensors are.

after doing all that splicing, it's more tedious work than it is difficult because it's so redundant, i rewrapped the whole front harness and used zipties to connect it evenly throughout the frame.

the most difficult parts were some of the factory splices, you have to pay attention to what you are doing and i mean it when i say; DO IT ONE WIRE AT A TIME

you will also need to go to an audio store to pick up some cable for the starter and alternator

the alternator is 2 8G wires, i bought 30 ft of it
the starter wire was 4G wire, i bought i think 12 ft
then you need the rings that go on the end of them
for these i had to hole saw a hole in the bottom of the bin about 1 1/2" D to get them through.

it took me about 16 hours of absolute work to do it but it was totally worth it.

i'll see if i can post some pics tomorrow.

 

Those aren't Gram Lights are they?

 

they are gram lights, it took me 6 months to get those wheels b/c i had a "strange" offset and a C-dish in the rear

they are 18x10 +35 rear 18x8 +35 front

if i had a choice to do it again, i would have gotten 17" and C-dish up front too

 

beautiful rims.

 

^ thanks man

 

Engine bay looks so much cleaner with them fuse boxes and wires removed,, this has been on the cards for me for a while. when you chopped out the wires 1 by one did you replace that section of wire with same colour code, say if the wire was white and black you put in a white and black wire???, or did you not go to such lengths.

 

it would have been very expensive to do that; color code each wire....i did not have the resources or even the inclination to do that.

i don't even know where i could get each color wire, especially in the matching gauge.

i pretty much used all black wire, but if there's a problem a simple continuity test will do the trick but i put forth the effort to do the splices right

if you take your time like i did, everything will work in the end

 

If you have more pics of the process please post them.

 

wait, did you relocate them to the bins? or to the area circled in blue?


makes the engine bay look much cleaner. i'm gonna have to do that.

 

i'm going to relocate the solenoids to the area in blue

i put pretty much everything you don't see in the bin behind the drivers seat

the relay box that's attached to the front of the car i just put right behind the bumper b/c i don't want and FMIC, i'm going large v-mount

 

Please keep us posted, this really cleans up the engine bay.

Thanks, and keep up the good work!

 

ok guys, i put the solenoid relocation in another thread

 

here's some more pics of how i did it:


THIS IS A PIC OF THE REAR BIN BEHIND THE DRIVERS SIDE SEAT




HERE IS A PIC OF WHERE I RAN THE WIRES FROM THE FENDER WELL





sorry guys, these are the only pics i have cuz when i did it i didn't have a digital camera and i just bought my new one yesterday.

 

found another pic guys, this is where i ran the wires along the door sill under the carpet, kinda a bad pic, sorry the lack of quality

 

I have a full size battery in that bin behind the seat, i did exactly like you and cut out the bottom of the bin. Just incase anyone wants a good idea, i noticed that the original battery tray from under the bonnet seems to sit perfectly on the floor under that bin. All i had to do was drill 3 small boles and bolt it to the floor, that way i used a full size battery and could still use the original clamps to hold the battery down. perfect.

 

just out of curiosity if i move the fuse box and relay boxs ect from the left hand side how many wires roughly is there to chop and make longer?

 

the reason i didn't use a full size battery is b/c of WEIGHT...as we all like to cut that down on our cars

all in all i think it was like +/- 50 wires which is so double that for splices

mind you, i didn't relocate the diagnostics connector, i just kinda hid that.

 

All this just to clean up the engine bay? You also may have introduced some failure points in the electrical system depending on how you've connected the wires, what kind of wire you've used, and how you've protected it all.

 

^ it's most likely but considering i did it myself i'm pretty confident on the quality of the work and know how i did everything; it would be different if someone else did it.

i did this after looking at scrub's writeup on how he did and pretty much followed suit

it looks nice but it was a lot of work

the only reason i did it is because i have some downtime while i'm waiting on parts and stuff, it wasn't that expensive to do so it was worth it.