76 Engine Bay Wring Harness

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76 Engine Bay Wring Harness

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Anyone have a good option for cleaning up the engine bay wiring harness on a 76 Spider with all those relays mounted on the drivers side. Would love to get it all out of there but as you know it's a lot if wires. Could clean it up by just rapping them again but that may not improve things much.
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Unless you have to worry about emissions, all but 3 of those relays can be eliminated.
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I've seen a picture where one has them mounted under the wiper cowl. Looked neat and tidy for sure.
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I was concidering under the cowl. Im planning on placing the computronix there for a super clean look on the top of the motor.
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The wiper cowl area is subject to rain and snow, not a good place to locate anything electrical. Move the relays to the driver side of the firewall by extending the wiring harness to the three needed relays.

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I put my custom relay box under the drivers side cowling in a plastic box I waterproofed. It is also on a bracket that elevates it off the floor so water can drain underneath it. Of course, the only water it sees is when i wash it. :mrgreen:
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I was going to elevate and also place in a covered box. Car has not seen rain in a decade and snow we can dream here in the NW.
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Mine is a 79, but here is where I placed my computronics....under the new windshield washer tank

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I am hoping the spark plug wires are long enough ......
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Shorter the wires are to coil the Better. Pat I would consider moving that coil closer.
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i have my computronix ingition mounted just to the right of your shiny box and the wires are plenty long. I ran them along the firewall to the motor
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I installed a small watertight relay/fuse box in my '76.

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Where did you get that fuse box and where exactly did you mount it?
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It's a Bussman from Frys. Mounted on the inside of the drivers side fender, towards the front.

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SLOSpider wrote:Shorter the wires are to coil the Better. Pat I would consider moving that coil closer.

I will if the plug wires Mark supplied are not long enough. I was also thinking of a way to feed the wires from the front of the intake manifold. Do you have to worry about EFI with spark plug wires?
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