Cleaning up the engine bay.

[shatar4]

I would like to know how you have "cleaned up" your engine bay. I am trying to think of a way to hide the wiring in the engine bay and not coming up with any good ideas. What have you done?

[360 'CUDA]

I know that our member Goodysgotacuda did that

[GoodysGotaCuda]

I moved my starter relay onto the radiator support, Voltage regualtor to the passenger side of the radiator support. Have no need for a ballast or ignition ecu since I run a MSD 6A box. Battery is in my trunk. Spark plug wires run nicely along the valve cover rail. Wiring is hidden inside the wheel wells, taped, soldered and have that 'crinkle' covering stuff. Heater lines are gone too.


It looks okay now, lots of little things taken away. It does have some holes around and such from factory locations. Some day I'll get to repainting the engine bay, I'll weld up holes and make the inner fenders more smooth. Probably lose the blower motor as well. I would like a painless wiring harness to get rid of my bulkhead connections.



Here are older pictures, yes I've definately moved my alternator output wire and circuit breaker out of the way.

[Grancoupe]

Not sure how far your looking to go. Here are a few shots of the last little project I completed. I posted shots mostly of the drivers side only. Pass side got the same treatment.

[Grancoupe]

This is when i started tearing things apart

[Grancoupe]

Starting fabbing things back together

[Grancoupe]

New rad support fabbed from scratch

[thelittles]

Very clean looking  inner fender.  thanks for posting

[Grancoupe]

Done deal. The wiring  is tucked up under the driver side well.Haven't finished the rad support panels yet. Car is in storage while i'm in moving phase to a new state. Firewall got the same treatment as the fender  wells. Tried to keep some of the stock lines while cleaning it as much as possible. i'm sure some of the purists would not approve. LOL

[Grancoupe]

Hey thelittles, no problem.

[GoodysGotaCuda]

Love that bay!  Looks smoooooth 

[CrazyPete]

very nice work grancoupe  

[shatar4]

I have already took care of the firewall but you guys gave me some good ideas. I was trying to think of a way to hide the wires because I think engine bays look messy when they have a bunch of wires going all over the place and since I was rewiring with a Painless system, I thought I would try and hide them.

[IMNCARN82]

I saw a pic of someone who had run spark wires under the air-gap intakes.  Looked odd but clean

[Grancoupe]

I'd be worried about how hot the wires got running them under the manifold