Fuse Box Area treatment on 280Z

[TomoHawk]

Does anybody have a good picture of the area around the fuse box of a 280Z? I got a new fuse box cover, but there are loads of loose wires & relays in the area, and I don't know if I should let them hang or should I tie them up neatly to hide?

thx

[hls30.com]

Tomohawk,

Is this... like a boxers or briefs type question?

Wiring and loose electrical parts should be secured!!!!!

Break out the FSM and put everything back the way it came!!!!

WIll

[TomoHawk]

As far as I can tell, none of the wiring can be moved, or I wouldn't want to move it much because the connections are fragile or funny that way. I have noticed all the many rubber-covered steel things in there to hold the wiring, but there are a few loose things like bundles of wire that I feel should be protected by panels or tied up but aren't.

I'm especially concerned with the wire bundles behind the center panel. There's not much rroom, and the PO seems to have (untwisted?) certain bundles to make patches, and so the wires are not gathered to well or even tangled. Even the carpet near the lower pass. heater output is pulled up, and there's no documentation about how the wire bundles there should go and how the carpet should lay.

It may even be a crappy aftermarket carpet that's cut badly and doesn't fit the car around the heater.

I did get a fusebox cover from eBay and I put it on. It's nicer, but not as nice as the newer cars. I need to go crawl around some correctly restored/maintained stock 280Zs.