Made all the rest of the -AN lines, all the air intake and coolant lines (save just a couple hoses for the vent line and such...just waiting on parts.... LOADS of back-and-forth on all the intake lines to make it all work, but finally arrived at a place I am happy. Fenders on. Radiator/Intercooler in. AC lines made, AC condenser holder made...blah blah...
So next up was to make the coolant reservoir mount. To keep lines shorter, I opted for the LHS. Mounting basically around here...
I had to chop the bracket off the Allisport TD5 style reservoir (or wanted to) and made what I feel is a stout, simple bracket for mounting. Couple Rivnuts in the fender, bent 1/4" aluminum bracket, couple more Rivnuts in the reservoir mounting arm...
Ordered some more hose to finish the reservoir install off--that is easy peasy.
Although the R380 has the remote mounted radiator/fan for it, I still wanted to have a gauge--mainly because I live in CO and we are at altitude with passes up to 10K' just to get out to Moab. And I tow an offroad trailer so I want to monitor it and added a 300F VDO gauge, but the senders are ALL very long and I couldn't find an in-line holder for a long sender. Tons of searching finally revealed a VDO sender, (not cataloged in their catalog) for a VW, that is a 300F, stubby--in M10-1.0 thread. The 6AN inline sender housings that I found were 1/8NPT-27, but they are NEARLY the same thread pitch--so much so that they thread into each other except one is straight side and the NPT is tapered... So I reamed out the taper and the crush washer will do the sealing...
I also ran the main harness and found a home for the ECU.
@jymmiejamz had a great idea about under the center cubby, so I am working on an enclosure for it. But first was seeing if the wiring could even be routed. With a Stubby, it just makes it. Barely. but it appears it will fit. Here it is plugged in, no enclosure...
Loads more still to do, but slowly and steadily making progress. I have just about everything I need, but still a lot of tidying things up. There is one thing that I learned, and that is don't final zip-tie, secure, cut, or mount anything until everything is mocked up. I had to remake a couple of -AN lines when I moved the power steering reservoir about 3 inches in order to fit a big air filter into the front corner.
So here she is, nearly all plumbed and most of the engine side electrical run. On the fender is the remote mount battery terminals that I will mount basically between the coolant reservoir and the fender--seems like a decent place, easy to get to for jumping... soon....