LQ4 into a 3rd Gen/1972 Nova by frojoe

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Some mundane car work that I otherwise wouldn't post, but thought the routing could be interesting to fellow Nova guys out there. I wrapped up the chassis-side engine bay wiring, I relocated the headlight/signals/fans wiring from the driver side (previously routed under brake master, which I thought was ugly) and heat shielded everything..

I reused the these aluminum clamps that I previously made that tuck the wiring as high as possible up under the fender...

And added a couple P clamps to keep the wiring loom clear of the filter....

Yes the filter is close to the fender, but has about a finger's gap... I wanted to jam the biggest filter possible in there...

This is probably the messiest wiring I've done in a while, however it was reusing most of the previous wiring (after thorough inspection) as well as the Ron Francis fuse/relay setup I previously used. I also repurposed the old oil cooler fan relay and an extra relay to now run the headlights off of relays instead of full current going thru the floor switch, which would get hot after a while.

There is an ugly amount of extra looped length in everything because I plan at some point to redo this nasty setup with a clean power distribution block/box with integrated power/ground bus bars, and pin my own terminals to have fuses and relays all integrated into one clean box. But for now, this will have to do.. oi.

At least the relays and fuse are more accessible now than they were before.. I can snake my hand down in there between the turbo inlet elbow and the rad support...

Then on to some more fun stuff, starting to connect the dots on the tailpipes!