I am still making progress on the car but slowed down for a while to allow the awesome paint and body shop crew repair all of the rust holes and apply new paint.
I have been working on getting the wiring harness hooked up. I peeled the friction tape off of the harness and found a bunch of cracked wires that needed to be trimmed out and new wire soldered in. I am missing the manifold pressure senor so I had to order a new one on rock auto. I had a difficult time plugging in any of the sensors and injectors to the wiring due to my engine being a late model style. The person who sold me the engine gave me a early 1984 computer and harness. I swapped the engine injector harness and sensors to the early 1984 style since a late model harness and computer was nowhere to be found on ebay and wrecking yards.
This engine is the late model 87/88 turbo 2.3 so it has a sepentine belt setup. I decided to install early dual V belt pullies to make it easier to delete the power steering and A/C compressor.
It turns out the edsel speedometer cable / bracket / gear plugs right in the T-5 transmission without any modification. The only thing so far that did not require modification.
I am still trying to come up with a way to add a clutch pedal and cable assembly.
I am so excited that a test fire of the engine is getting much closer now.
