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[advantage998]

I want to fit one to my car, but i need some pics to see how it all fits and the mountings and fuse positions etc, can anyone help??

[Sprocket]

Edit: oopsie

MPI fuse box? you would be better fitting a blade type fuse box where the original fuse box is, its almost a direct fit. The MPi fuse box is part of the loom and the loom is VERY different to any of the other looms, including the SPi. You might as well make up a totaly custom loom and incorporate a multi way fuse box available from various suppliers.

Not trying to be awkward, I know how difficult it is to re hash a wiring loom to make it work in other ways, and that was only the engine loom for an SPi, it took me a week of evenings to get it somewhere right. Why do you want the MPi fuse box anyway?

Edited by Mini Sprocket, 28 March 2007 - 11:38 PM.

[advantage998]

I already gone down the multiway blade fuse box and its currently inside the car behind the dash on the passenger side, it also incorporates what used to be the line fuses under the scuttle. It works fine as it is, its just theres no where to tidily mount it.

I was planning on making a custom loom, where all the separate circuits where individually fused, so its more like a modern loom.

[Sprocket]

Coolio

Unfortunately i havent seen the mounting location for the MPi fuse box. The other thing is that you will need new nerminals for it or you will be splicing and soldering fo ever.

Have a look at these, this is more or less what you are after http://www.vehicle-w...ays/relays.html near the bottom

[advantage998]

I did find this on minispares http://www.minispare....aspx?pid=34222 which should be what i need, and p+l sell the covers/doors, then i'd just need to make some brackets up.

[Sprocket]

Terminals??

[Dan]

I've got one in my 998 on a custom loom. It is pretty simple to use if you are wiring from scratch. The terminals are available from Vehicle Wiring Products but you also need the locking bars to keep them in the box which are not sold by VWP. There is a small yellow plastic block fitted across the middle of the box which looks like it is there only to mark the SRS fuses but it is actually this that the cover clips to and without this it will not stay fitted so you need that too. I got the whole lot from Rover including the cover.
In the MPi the box is fitted to a panel welded accross the wheelarch and this is not available as a seperate panel, you either have to cut one from a new MPi flitch panel or a used shell or make your own bracket.
If you are doing this my advice would be to use modern thinwall PVC cable. Using conventional cable the box will have a massive great loom coming out of it which is hard to conceal behind the lower dash rail. Also remember there are no commoned terminals in this box like there are in others so any circuits that need to be grouped onto a single supply need to be daisy chained on the supply side or fed from a junction box somewhere. I used a mega fuse box under the bonnet as a junction to supply circuit groups and as a hub for the system sypply from the alternator / solenoid.

If you have replaced the glass fuses with blades in your current system and are using the standard wiring have you taken the difference between the rating method of the types of fuses into account?