electrical relocation

I have gone beyond a basic harness and have been working on relocating my electrics this last couple of weeks. Its almost done and I figured its time to bring the full project into view. I will eventually ditch the oem fuse box for a more suitable setup that will not leave so many open connections on its board. This is what I have.



The biggest issue I see doing this is that it relocates a good chunk of wires that will be finding a new home some where besides under the door trim. The majority of the work is complete. I will need to modify the tire well to make a seat for the battery and fuse box. My idea is to cut out the existing fuse box holder and use that for the fuse box to sit in, then fiberglass over what is left up front. Is there any other ideas for this?

The plus side of this is the little bit of weight the battery puts up front will be in the back now, and it removes the chances of unneeded moisture from reaching these two peices of the electrical system.

Why do you want to get rid of the fuse box? Seems like you will need most of the circuits in there unless you're stripping the car for racing.

Well I am not stripping the car for racing. Since the beginning of this project about 3 years ago, I have noticed alot of things that have broken or where broke from previous owners through the two 944s I have owned. During alot of searching for the parts I always ran into a problem, either the parts where bad or they were too expensive to replace with remaned parts.

I decided to build a car of simplicity. I have ditched power windows for 924 manual regulators and the same goes for the power steering rack (too many complaints of blown seals and the hassle of adding all the extra hoses and coolers in the bay).

Pulled the heating-a/c box that was controlled by one control pad that no one that I have found could find a reasonable way around. I will replace that with a aftermarket heater setup from vintage air or some place similar, for those cold days that need a defrost or a little heat.

I pulled the heavy powered seats for a set of manual racing buckets that came with the 1984 I purchased first.

The engine is almost completely stand alone from the rest of the electric system besides some gauges and the battery.

The body harness, if you ever decide to dig through the oem schematics, is a very complicated setup that loops through the fuse box many times over instead of running straight to the guages or controls the wires need to reach. I have stripped the fat out of the harness and still have about 50-60 wires running to the fuse box. Honestly that is just too many for my liking.

To me these are not Porsches any more they are a chance to build one offs that resemble who we are. I like to think of mine as a light weight supercar, similar to a Ferrari F40, which by the way had no interior or sound deading material, in fact it didnt even have a door handle. The other stuff is just over the top compications that I really dont need.

cfgioja wrote:
To me these are not Porsches any more they are a chance to build one offs that resemble who we are. I like to think of mine as a light weight supercar, similar to a Ferrari F40, which by the way had no interior or sound deading material, in fact it didnt even have a door handle. The other stuff is just over the top compications that I really dont need.

Exactly same mindset I'm taking with my project. Getting minimal time to work on it right now, but in a month or so I'll have a lot more time and can't wait to really dive in. Look forward to seeing some unique stuff out of your build.