Re: V8 Crossfire Conversion Diary
Sorry for no update yesterday but we worked until midnight and I am exhausted. Yesterday we installed the cooling fans and towed the car to the muffler shop. The head pipes didn't quite match up to the exhaust manifolds. It was really close but a slight wrong angle. While they were at it I had them delete the second set of unmonitored cats. After is was done we used a flat bed to bring the car to my house. We also had to have a new a/c line made because one was too long. It was done this morning. We were up late last night making some adjustments to the wiring harness to match the Crossifre. This required taking two plug in connectors from the V6 harness and spending most of the night studying the wiring diagrmas and pin out charts. What took a lot of time was tracing wires and physically verifying them. We finished all mechanical work and wiring a few minutes ago. I tried to run the initial start up in DAS but the car didn't start. I called Bob Beckmann from Beckmann thechnologies and will be taking the car to a local independant shop that works with Bob Beckmann and we will hook up there and let Bob do the programing via Mercedes Blue Link (over the internet). I am now waiting on Kraus Automotive and Bob Beckmann to coordinate their schedules. Oviosly I want to get this done tomorrow mornig if possible. Here are some of the latest pictures that shows the completed mechanical work.