Making an engine harness myself
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Man if you look at the harness all opened up, its nothing mote than pieces of wire - a plug at one end, and or the other as well.
As long as the pins are correct, the plugs are done right, I don't see anything hard about it. ( yes I have done enough wiring to know )
I think its great you are tackling this on your own man. If you can work on airplane wirings - which requires you to stick to strict specifications - , doing a car wiring should be a piece of cake....The hours spent on it may not be though...
Do it.
As long as the pins are correct, the plugs are done right, I don't see anything hard about it. ( yes I have done enough wiring to know )
I think its great you are tackling this on your own man. If you can work on airplane wirings - which requires you to stick to strict specifications - , doing a car wiring should be a piece of cake....The hours spent on it may not be though...
Do it.
thanks man i think i will, as long as i can get the wire i want. i would need hundreds of feet of it
So, where can we get a new set of ecu plugs? I searched through the AMP website, but I don't know what to call them or part number to use.
abustiffy said:
i already have..and my swap is complete. doesn't look like i'll be getting any wire from work, supervisor didn't like the sound of what i was planning to do with it.
Ric said:
He did not say he could not afford it. The aircraft quality is what he said he would like to use....I want to see him succeed. Stop being a crab in a bucket and try to pull this guy down ....... :biglaugh:
That's funny. I've undone many parts of the 2JZ harness, and it's easy to get pins out of the ECU side after you know that you are doing. You need to pop the yellow part of the plug off and use a small jeweler's flathead screwdriver. The pins/receptacles don't just slip out unless you trigger the right pin release area, trust me - and the ECU pins were the easier ones to get out than any others in the harness that I can think of.crazysupra2JZ said:
As for the rest of the plugs, they can be a pain. You have to use a jeweler's flathead to semi-gently and patiently push the weather seal/gasket from around the plugs. This usually allows you access to some sort of main locking mechanism. Then you have to find out where to lift in order to release each individual pin. As far as quality goes, the Toyota harnesses are excellent. If you want to make your own, go ahead. If it were me, I would extend a harness or buy one, but I wouldn't build my own, and I love to solder.
drunk_medic said:
well have fun man doing that harness , but if i was you i'd save myself some money & buy this instead
.it has a wiring harness done it in already.
http://www.supramania.com/forums/showthread.php?t=47813