Not too much to report, but I have been working(slowly) on it, family commitments and 3 kiddos under 6 take up a lot of the day.
I test mounted the blower a few times. I managed to get the entire driver side ready to go. The passenger side needs a hose or 2 coming in the mail, was supposed to be here sunday :-/
With the blower installed everything looked good, that was until I installed the expansion block with the fittings loosely. I am hitting the brake lines out of the master cylinder. I slowly bent the lines some and it has given me more room. I will need a little more persuasion to get the blower fully into place. I can only assume the lines were replaced at one time and they were not routed exactly to spec even though they look pretty good. I had not heard/read of anyone else running into this issue.
I have run most of the electrical wires, 1 to the wiper high speed, the large cable to the battery, the condensor fan wires, constant power wire for the yellow ECU wires, and lastly the push button was wired into the radio switched on power. I tried to get a small win while temporarily grounding out the black wire on the button to see it illuminate blue. Car switched on, Radio turned on - no blue. Either my ground is not good which Im pretty sure it was OR the additional wires need to be hooked into Black ECU cable in order for it to light up...I have another wire to run for jumping of the rear defogger switch, 2 more for switched on power, and then I can splice everything in the smugglers box together.