Just finished swapping my Lt1 into my 95 formally v6 firebird and everythign looks good except the location of the ABS wire. I have hooker long tubes and where the wire from the abs sensor plugs into the plug on the fender there is only about 1/2in. of clearance between the plug and the header. Does anyone relocate these when they add headers because i am certain that after a while it will burn through. I was thinking i could drill a one inch hole in the inner fender and run the underhood plug through it and run the abs sensor wire along the inner fender and plug it in that way. Let me know who has had this problem and how to fix it.

 

I relocated mine but it didnt requre any drilling or anything like that.

 

where'd you relocate it to? DId you just pull it closer to the front of the car or what? Im sure other ppl know what im talking about.

 

I dont remember exaclty but basically I unplugged the sensor first, and then broke the plug off of the inner fender well, and then I uncliped the first clip thing that the routes the wire to the wheel along the lower control arm, and that gave it enough slack that I could rerout it through some space and then zip tie it away from the headers. -- hopefully that makes sense.. btw I got a couple of rolls of DEI insulating heat tape from Summit and wrapped everthing that I could.

Something else that you should look out for is on the driverside the cruise control cable touches the header and will burn very quickly like that (oops) so I unbolted the heat shield and was able to route it behind that - which has successfully kept it away from the header.

 

yeha i know what your saying about unclipping it. Ill look and see what i can do. And good idea on the heat wrap. Ill check out the cruise control cable too. thanks man

 

and btw if you are going to try to route the cruise control cable behind that heat shield there are like 3 bolts holding the heat shield up, and you have to unbolt all 3 and pull it down as far as you can, and then kind of slip the cruise control cable behind it -- it will look difficult, but yes it can be done with the headers in the car