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A little more progress. Got the charge harness sheet metal bracket that goes over top of the AC/power steering bracket back from coating, so could finally bolt on the AC and Power Steering. Went on smoothly. JP3 brackets for the RX8 compressor fit perfect.
Got all that on and saw how bad the front body harness was looking and how bad all the fan relays were. I have a haltech R3 going in so no need for the fan relays anymore. Decided to delete them and clean up the harness. Now I can get the radiator and intercooler in. Ended up going a bit further down the rabbit hole than I intended, but luckily it’s all back together and all the wires are in good shape. of course I forgot to take pictures of it when the wiring was fully disassembled and how good it looked after retaking it all before I clipped it back in.
Power steering and brackets
AC and Power Steering
Staring to tear into it. It was all disconnected due to the engine bay paint job
Crusty fan relay harness
Mess Took it all the way apart and washed everything
Wrapped back up and clipped in Cleaned up all the wire looms, removed all tape and added fresh tape after cleaning the looms
Still need to clean good old X-02 a bit more. It was coated with crud bad.
Getting closer. It’s nice to have most of the body harness back where it’s supposed to be. I was procrastinating on it, but actually went smoothly.
Also switched to the FFE trigger wheel. I know stock is sufficient, but I went to out on the AC and PS bracket and noticed there is no way to feed the wire harness to the crank sensors after. So with the FFE Hall effect sensor, I could leave a pigtail up to the top of the engine, so I can do the engine harness last after everything else is all together.
OEM trigger, checking timing mark to make sure I understand how the engine TDC is relative to the FFE trigger (FFE trigger wheel is marked but I wanted to be sure)
Getting this stud out took forever. Thought it was going to break which would have been bad. A 5 minute job turned into 20. But that’s shorter than breaking it. tapped the hole after to clean the threads and luckily it was fine.
Mocked up
Pigtail on top of engine so I can attach the AC and Powersteering bracket and add the wire harness later. Raychem loom, and routed as far away from the alternator as possible.
Pressure tank, on the Banzai Racing bracket. However I forgot the Xcessive LIM moves everything forward. So took a little bending of the bracket to get it to fit. Didn’t even crack the powder coat!
I never understand why they don’t put shielding on the dang trigger wiring. 🤔
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If we're talking about a VR (variable reluctance) trigger sensor, you're right, it should be connected with a twisted pair shielded shielded cable. But from what I see in the picture (3 wires), TwinCharged opted for the Hall effect sensor. Hall effect sensors (and their associated cabling) are inherently much less susceptible to EM interference, so the shielded cable is not necessary.
The rest of the cable that connects to it will be shielded. They say in the package with the sensor that anything longer than the pigtail should be shielded.
05-20-24, 12:30 AM
