Covin, 911 Replica buildup, Winter update, or not?

So this happened today,


New dizzy arrived today and installed, bit confusing, and I needed to change the cap and rotor to the new one, the old ones don't fit the new dizzy.

It fired right up and idled perfect....or in real life, I re-timed it several times, changing the No1 position on the cap, and started with some effort..and after 30 lumpy secs it settled into a balanced idle.

I guess some clues led to the dizzy not the carb...and with hindsight it seems silly I thought it was the carb.
My thoughts were, not really started much in 2years, so the fuel much have gummed up the carb?

but...
Rev counter bounced all over the place when it did run, I put it down to an old school Rev counter.

The way it went from perfect to farting about....and then back again.

There was another test too.....after setting up the dizzy, I needed to use the timing light to get it perfect...so got my wife to start it, and timed it to 7.5Deg BTDC (Its a SVDA)...but it started to miss again then stopped ...so after 2mins of wondering and giving it a "stern" look
I reached up to fondle the "mower" fuel tank, as I suspected...out of gas....more gas and all was sorted.
Ran perfect for the rest of the day..

Neighbour needed some help, so helped him build some trusses for his garage extension. and some more adjustments to the door, and window frame that was my day

So tonight...I guess I'm getting old...but I got frustrated with the wires.
Ive been on my back, and squeezed into tight spaces and wires, just doing nothing...or something I don't know about.

So this happened,





I don't want this mess behind the dash, so as the Covin is on a shortened VW base, I have some loom length, so it will now run into the bonnet space, with a large 12 place fuse rail, instead of 6 fuses.

My plan is to find some large bulk head plugs and simplify with wiring and a open space, lots of relays are planned too. The company I work for makes these, but I thing I want something more compact, can you suggest something?

Don't think I can help too much but could it be a capacitor fitted to suppress ignition interference on the car? Can't really see the full text on the component so hopefully someone with proper electrical knowledge will make a stab at what it is.

Just wanted to say keep up the good work and whatever you do don't think 'I'll have a break from doing this wiring and come back to it .......'

I did just that when re-wiring the dash loom on my RX7 and with a few delays came back to it about 12 months later....bejeesus! Took me ages to work out what I'd wired where and what I needed to complete.

It's all done now but probably took me 5 times longer than it should have done.

Cheers

AL

So. needed to go to Guildford to see some friends this weekend and back to the car today, as I'm worried Like Alx said, I might forget what I did and how to sort it....
Wiring is not my favourite, but now my heads is "in that space" I feel OK, and can see it all clearly enough.
So today, I started to make up a dash board loom, using some "samples" I had around work.


(I looked at lots of Automotive Multipole plugs, but the larger wire plugs don't take good amps, only signal currents)
I wont use the "hoods" as they rise to tall, will hold the plug together another way.

More wires,





And i'm making up a key, as I go along to help out later, some are easy to ID, some just have a random number, so I can ID the dash end and the Under bonnet end.
Loads more to do, but in a rush to get it running again, before I forget how to do wiring.

Would like to say I have something interesting to post...but still fixing some wiring issues...like headlights not dipping now.

Also found the dip problem....after 3hrs...removed the steering wheel...no problem there...more looking I found the offending earth wire not connected up....fix it down and all works again.

Good progress

So today was almost a 100% washout for car work.

Made up some ramps for the "skates", so I can now just reverse on and unhook the ramps....Easy!






Then the simply job of installing the 911(996) seat, so removed the old "Wolfrace" seat and disappointing by the mounts...not to worry I will install Porsche ones!





Turns out 996 seats don't fit in a bug chassis, so the rest of the day was spent making up new seat mounts and then helping the neighbour on his garage extension.

So from 9am-7pm (including 4hrs working on the garage) all I did on the car was drove the car out with the old seat in it...and 10 hours later drove it back in with the same seat back in it...but the ramps worked perfect, so that was a bonus.

I cant help thinking how much nicer the car would look with a set of banded steel wheels filling the arches!
Deeeep dish.
Keep at the work the end is getting close now.