My Echo rally car - pics just for Garm!

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Originally Posted by PK198105

very nicely done, but what happened to the wiring ?

Not 100% certain but I think, when hard under brakes, the loom was moving forward and rubbing against the tip of a bolt hanging down until it finally rubbed through and found some power wires to play with. It blew no fuses or circuit breakers and I had to pull a 50amp fuse to cut power to the mess. the whole car would shut down for a few seconds (motor, dash, electrics etc) under brakes and then would fire up and run like normal. There wasn't even the small of burning plastic to tell me what was going on.

The loom is now well shielded and moved higher up away from anything metal and to where it is more easily accessible in case I didn't find the true cause of the initial problem. We have been joking about putting some bacon in with the loom so that if we can smell bacon cooking, we know exactly where to look next time .

oh and one of my favorite rallies is the Australian Rally love the courses

Which rally/s? The Australian Round of the WRC?
I got to these these guys up close a few months ago as the WRC round was moved to the Eastern coast of Australia and was only a couple of hours drive from home so we helped out at a road block.