We re-ordered the coil packs to keep the cables a bit more organized:
Spark plug wires after changing the order of coil packs
I re-terminated the EFII ground lugs to use the ground tabs (and leave the larger bolt for the main engine grounding):
EFII ground wires connected to grounding block
After securing the sensor cables (oil pressure, oil temperature, fuel pressure, manifold pressure) inside the cockpit, I cut them to length and terminated them on the sensors - most of them were Metri-Pack 150 pull-to-seat connectors, which are slightly annoying since you have to crimp with the wires running through the connector:
Sensor Metri-Pack connector assembly
Sensor wires connected to FWF sensors
Oil temperature sensor connector
For securing the ignition and sensor wires around the cylinders, I couldn't find a bracket with the shape I wanted, so I 3D scanned the side of the engine and made one:
Spark plug wire bracket in 3D-scanned engine
Spark plug wire bracket design
A 3D-printed prototype showed that I had the right measurements off of the 3D scan, but it also seemed a bit flimsy, so I iterated to make a beefier version. Given the position of the injectors, I'm also not sure that top hole will be very useful:
Test spark plug wire bracket in place
Besides that, in favor of finishing the wiring behind the firewall, we organized, trimmed and terminated the alternator regulator wires that come from the FWF. This area is very annoying to access and I regret placing the regulators there already, but with some contortionism and a lot of patience, we got it more or less organized:
Original wiring mess near the alternator regulators
Wife doing contortionism to organize the alternator regulator wires
Slightly more organized wiring underneath the alternator regulators
We still need to replace the zipties with wax lacing and connect a couple more wires in that area.
With that side's lengths also set, I terminated the starter annunciator connection, with the inline resistor (installed in a Z shape with heatshrink, as the VP-X manual suggests), as well as the alternator field outputs:
Starter relay with all inputs connected
Next I'll make more of the spark plug wire brackets and finalize the rest of the FWF routing.
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