After seeing the state of the Camaro at the bodyshop that was storing it, I decided to pay to have it recovered back to the house and put it on the drive. It wasn’t going to be going anywhere quickly as Christmas was in the way and it turned out that I had a load of rear chassis damage and a bent axle. In a moment of madness I decided to re-do all the engine wiring as I hated the way it was when I got it, and it was unreliable as well. I pulled all the engine loom off, cut all the connections and took it back indoors where it was warm. With it all laid out on the floor, I positioned it all where it should be an worked out what was missing, what needed extending, and what could just be cut out.

I wanted to bring the computer inside the cabin and hide it under the dash, as the existing wiring meant lots of the loom just hung over the engine to the front of the car. A lot of the wiring needed to be extended to do this so I cut up the spare loom from the ’93 that I had and used the wires to extend it. Along the way I found bare wires, taped joins and insulation that was torn through. With it all repaired, I moved all the relays to a relay board, and put a new fuse board in for the engine. Once I’d done all that I got it back in the car, double checked it and found I’d forgotten to lengthen two of the injector leads. It was so cold out on the drive the soldering iron wouldn’t melt the solder. I got a bigger iron, and finished it off on a freezing day just after Christmas. With the light going, I was desperate to get it done, and just as I was ready to test start it, it began to snow. It fired up first time and ran well with snow hissing on the headers and Poppy running round excited to see the snow. I popped the bonnet back on and called it a day happy that all the work had been worth it, and Poppy and I went off to play in the snow.