July 18.
Basically the only thing left before it is ready to start is installation of the intake pipe (easy), and fabrication of a battery tray for the smaller battery I decided to buy today.
Other than that, it's just putting the car back together (cowl, bumper cover, fender liners).
Today's pics:
This trapezoidal shaped protrusion on the driver's side of the radiator support has been a royal pain in my ass. The corners at first had flash from molding that were cutting my forearm - now that I've sanded them smooth, it's just the pointy corners of it that press into my forearm every time I reach into the driver's side of the engine compartment. I have this nice bruise that hurts like hell - the outer ring is bruised, but the inside is hard as a rock, and exquisitely tender and painful. If I were a smart man, I would have taped some foam to this thing days ago. I am not a smart man.
3" cutoff wheel has been stationed here next to the vice pretty much the entire time. I have used it WAY more than I expected for this project.
Getting setup to extend the wiring for the O2 sensor.
Finished product:
Here's the routing on the passenger's side:
And here's the routing on the driver's side. Looks like a good stock wire routing job, if I do say so myself. (if you're having trouble seeing the wire, look for the corrugated tube running down the length of the fuel rail, then under the vacuum hoses, behind the coolant hoses, and connecting to the black and grey connectors at the bottom of the pic.)
Here is some detail/insight on why this is taking so long. Take this wire run for example. This green wire is from some sensor in the transaxle (reverse switch? temp? speed? I don't realy care...), and connects into the wire harness on top of the transaxle. But as you can see in this picture, I've run a water line for the turbo in this vicinity, and it is both physically touching the wire, and putting some stress on the wire by forcing the wire out of its natural routing.
So we add corrugated tubing as a protector.
We also move this clip position a few mm to get a bit of slack in the wire. (You can see the indentions on the foam where the clip was positioned previously)
And VUALA! A wire routing that won't burn down your pride and joy - because it does not have any stress in the wires, is not actively touching any other parts, and is protected in areas that have potential for touching. (there's actually about 10mm of clearance between the wire and the metal bracket at the bottom of the picture, it's just the angle that makes it look like it's touching.)
Also note the 5/8" heater hose wrapped around the 3/8 water hose, as a protector where the water hose touches the aforementioned metal bracket.