ramello

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Ok im knee deep in my RHD Build project where im taking a RHD shell and building it up to be a street driven yet powerful car. Go ahead with all the flaming and whatever you want but ill just ignore it, its not my daily driver its just a fun project car that im working on for the sake of enjoying my hobby of working on cars and building something unique. My daily driver is a Mazdaspeed 6 and i also have an 87 Turbo 2.
So now that all that is cleared up the question im asking here is about body harness wiring.....im going standalone on the engine so obviously i dont need that harness....but since the car is RHD its nearly impossibly to make that harness work for what i need.....so im wondering if anyone has any suggestions on solutions
since it will be street driven i need to keep a few of the basic things like power windows, wipers, headlights etc so im just wondering how easy it would be to custom wire these applications......
also this will effect ignition and i was wondering how i can simplify wiring up the ignition
Ive been looking at the FSM wiring diagrams but any suggestions would be helpful

ramello

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noone has any suggestions or help on this???
im good mechanically ive just never gotten much into electrical systems on cars so any help would be greatful....especially suggestions as to what to leave and what can go etc or a simple layout of how i should do it.....

i was thinking like i come off the battery to the main fuse block then split that to the smaller fuse box and run wires from that to the accessories but im just not sure exactly what is needed? is it as simple as normal circuitry where i need a feed and ground? i guess imjust confused because most of the plugs have 6 or 8 prongs

MidnightOwl

As long as you have everything you need to make the car move correctly (like transmission wires, coil packs, fuel pump, etc), you can just design your own wiring system for everything else. You could even take off the fender and run all of your wiring inside of it, instead of the engine bay, which would clean it up a lot. Run head lights, parking lights, flashers, hazards, blah, blah, blah. Maybe even build your own fuse panel.

dsmrx7

I'm doing the same thing. Mine currently runs a JSPEC S5 motor and trans mated to an S4 T2 Rear Diff...I just need to run the wiring for the all the lights, but the car runs like a champ on steroids. : p

Aaron Cake

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There's no easy way about it. You'll need to sit down with a copy of the wiring diagrams, and extend the wires in an LHD harness appropriately.

Most of the generic harnesses (ie. Painless Wiring) do not have the necessary circuits to run the '80s style electrical system in the 2nd gen.

ramello

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hmmm this is what i was scared of especially when you start thinking some of these things that are needed like the cpu etc....
essentially im fucked and have to create my own wiring harness from scratch for everything it looks like....especially since the more i compare notes on my 87 T2 to the RHD car theres a lot of things different in the harnesses that were left behind

walken

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best thing would be to find someone over in Japan that, if you throw some extra cash their way, would be willing to pull the body harness from a local scrapyard.

that is what I had to do with my FD project.

ramello

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yea i thougth about that option and messaged a few people with some RHD clips