I can't work on the car every day, but I am making some good progress. I made the wiring harnesses for the lights and brought them all together where the gas tank used to be. I still need to run the connections from the lighting harness into the dashboard area. Once I do that, I will install the front compartment component plate onto the gas tank mounting rails which will cover up the lighting harness terminal strip. I figure that once the lights are working from the dashboard harness, I won't need to mess with it again and I can cover it up.
I also installed the Link 10 shunt, 500A fuse, and PakTrakr Hall Effect shunt on the wall of the front battery box. The components are bolted to phenolic blocks and connected to each other with heavy copper busbar stock.
I also have been wiring up the components in the motor compartment. I crimped and heatshrinked the 4/0 motor cables and the 2/0 contactor cables. The connections to the Hairball are brought out to a terminal strip. The cooling system component hoses were installed - that blue thing is the coolant reservior. The Hall Effect accelerator pedal and motor RPM sensor cables are connected directly onto the Hairball. I put the orange main contactor precharge wires in a split-loom tube that I spray-painted orange. In electric cars, you're supposed to have the high-voltage cables colored orange. Policemen and firemen have been trained that orange means high voltage, so if there's an accident they know to not cut those cables. I hung the split loom from a tree branch in the front yard to paint it.
