What are everyones tricks to hide/ remove things and free up some space in the engine bay and still make everything legal.

Not really sure why you'd bother. It'd be a pain in the arse to tune.

Perhaps if you had shares in an oil company you could be guaranteed of a dividend.

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Originally posted by camo91

What are everyones tricks to hide/ remove things and free up some space in the engine bay and still make everything legal.

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Did I miss something - your looking to hide or remove things from the engine bay?

How much work do you want to do? Wiring is the biggest clutter in the engine bay so if your serious about this you need to take the wiring to the inside of the guards, then fill the big hole that it currently goes through. Outside of that, look to shift the washer bottle (inner guard), battery (boot), ignition coil (to the motor), shorten the brake booster (assuming its an escort) so it sits flush with firewall instead of level witb the radiator (or put the brake boosters above the brake pedal inside the car).

It can be done legally, but it might need approval (blue plate in Qld).

Why do you want to do this - is the car going on the show circuit or do you just want it easy to work on? If the decision is some where between the 2 then I'd suggest just tidying things up with zip ties, heat shrink and re-routing anything so it can be partially hidden

Its going to be my daily, but i want to have a nice car. everything neat and tidy. how do i shorten the brake booster? i will flexy tube and extented all the wires and put in the guages.everything else will go inside the guards, washer bottle, charcol canister. and yes move the battery to the boot and cut out the battery tray. and install a raditator overflow and oil catch can in its place. the coil will stay in the bay, just moved with a chrome cover.

Hi, if you are talking about an escort, you might be able to find a non boosted master cylinder, some poverty pack Mk1s had them, I have used them sucsessfully in 2 of my Escorts, just need to shorten the brake lines or roll them around a tube for that coiled up hot rod look.
Not much difference in braking, just a bit more force needed.

Battery in the boot, get rid of brake booster and run a remote booster in the guard

Undo the engine mounts, put the engine in the boot and call it a veedub[:o)]