SRowell's Stage 1 Diablo HDi Estate

[Eeyore]

My massive day of car wiring and sub enclosure making went well... I left all the solder at my grans so I had to drive there to get it and that involved going through a massive flood both ways.

Firstly I put the 12V+ cable for the amp through the same grommet as the boost pipe.


and then fed that down to the passenger footwell where it will live until I take out the centre console and put the wiring under the floor!


I then put the wires for the boost gauge through the dash and drilled a hole for them to go through the A pillar.


Cut the wires and soldered them to the red 12V live from the headlight adjuster and the earth to the green/yellow earth.


and then dremmeled the gauge holder so it was flush with the curve of the dash. Drilled a hole in the A pillar for the securing screw and put that in! Sorted!


and the moment of truth when I put the side lights on!


After feeling very happy with what I had done I fitted the speedo, speedo surround and sticker bombed steering wheel coweling. Took forever to put the coweling on by which time it was getting dark. I also took off the centre dash to sort out some wiring and the steering remote. Remote didnt work so I just removed all the wiring. Took the heater controls apart but found my spare bulb didnt work so that was pointless. All back together again!

Also My massive box of screws an other interior fixings was too big and impossible to find the black torx screws. So i sorted all of those out and now have a bag of black screws. The previous owner had obviously lost loads of screws and replaced them with actual screws. Needless to say I fitted all the correct original ones! So yes! Dash is pretty much perfect now!

Pitch black now so... I may go out again in a bit and start sanding my custom tweeter pods!

edit: Whilst being at uni dad has moved things in the shed... including my tweeter pods... so no work on those until I find them!