MC engine swap minutia

[Huw Powell]

Ken Keith wrote:
> 
> Please bear with me as I hash out some of the more simple issues
> regarding an MC conversion into my 4ksq.
> 
> What should I use to label the wiring harness and items?  I picture
> masking tape with magic marker writing on it, getting all thrashed
> and greasy so that it is illegible.  (I imagine this swap will take at
> least a month, working at a pace comfortable to me)  How about
> some clear shipping tape wrapped around the written-on masking
> tape?  What have others done for labelling?

two things come to mind - one, pep boys sell a ten color plastic banding
kit - two each of ten colored clip things.  two, as I saw Jim Mairs
doing with his UrQ project, get a label maker at an ofice supply store -
about $40 gets you into one that will make labels that say whatever you
type in on 1/4" or 1/2" white or colored strips.  very good idea.

> 
> Should I try to locate the ECU in the same location as stock, at
> the passenger footwell are?  Is there a better place?

on the passenger seat...

if you delete AC, hang it where the evaporator used to be, where it is
easy to get to.

> 
> Oh wow, I just remembered I should probably get a hold of a
> vacuum canister, to accumulate vacuum for the brakes.  Maybe
> later, I'll have the hole machined into the head for the vacuum
> pump, just to be extra safe.  Where is a good place for vacuum
> canisters, Summit?  Can I use the stock vacuum canisters that I
> remember my Coupe GT had in the fender, with the three joined
> globes?  If going that route, I would probably have to fashion my
> own check valve?

use spare "tennis ball" cans from junk Audis as you mention.  check
valves are also all over spare cars - each one, for instance, has at
least two in the main brake vacuum line.  just think through the lines
and check valve setup so it makes sense!  The only drawback (or two) I
see to the parts car type canisters is small orifices, you might want a
larger inlet/outlet and also maybe not enough storage cap.  As i recall,
the ones from n/a cars, for the AC recirc flap, are three tennis ball
size.  the old 5kt ones (pre 84, type 43) were nine ball sized i
think...

and as far as your harness issues, Marc Swanson took notes while I
chopped up the redundant stuff on his donor harness - whether they were
in a language known to man or on his web site in any form is another
issue!

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Huw Powell

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