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Old 12-23-06, 10:20 PM
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standalone or new wireing harness

well i found out that i have a short somewere in my stock 88 T2 wireing harness and i dont really feel like trying to find the problem and fix it. so my question is would it be better to jest got by a new wireing harness or go standalone.
Old 12-23-06, 11:04 PM
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Both will be around 1k. Will you spend 1k to avoid looking for a short?
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well maybe cuz the person i bought the car from looked like they did the wireing in the dark. and i would rather spend the money to have it all fixed and working them spend time to get mad and angery at it.
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i had the same problem just redo it its not that hard just finished mine took 3 days i have all new injector clips and some 3rd gen connectors i just put on it. along with new electrical tape and no booty *** conections i soldered and shrink wrapped every thing all for like 20 bucks max saved 1000 to put into new turbo
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well i went out and looked at it and it looked like some how part or the wireing harness got close to the turbo and burnt some of the wires.
Old 12-23-06, 11:22 PM
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oh thats easy if i were you unless its your only car id pull the harness out and refurbish it fix connections and rewrap it in heat safe harness wrap witch can be purchsed at www.2751engineering.com its under haltec/ems upgrades
Old 12-23-06, 11:25 PM
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no i got other cars its jest i hate doing wireng but if its easy i guess i can do it
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yeah man i hate it too but if it will save you that much money its worth it i think i spent like 5 bucks on a soldering gun 3 on rosin core solder and like 10 on shrink wrap got it all at the local radio shack. just be carfull pulling it off the car and under the dash there will be 2 large connector going to the ecu and 4 more above them then it will pull right through the firewall
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ok is there anything els i should do while i got it out that will stop something from brakeing in the future
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well with that wrap or electrical tape should pevent it for crackin b/c al my wires were dry rotted almost, causing the wires to be very brittle and crack with the slightest bend just be extra careful when removing it other then that if you see any cracked or broken wires make sure you fix the or rap them up
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ok thanks for your help. lol would it be wise to also invest in a turbo blanket to keep this from happing agian
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yes sir or just see if you can put it in in a better position then the previous owner did also when i had mine out i also remove all the emission stuff off the harness along with any other unused connectors on the harness
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thanks for the info at some point im hoping to run a Rtek 2.0 ecu will fixing the harness hinder that ecu ?
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thats wut im running right now exactly why i fixed my harness man i just started running it broke in my new engine on it then pulled every thing aprt again for the winter make over
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how do you like youre Rtek ?
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i like it it is very easy to use they are making some upgrades for it which will be out soon i cant wait
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ya have you dynoied yours yet to see how much power your pushing out of it ?
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no havent dynoed it yet but should be pushing about 350whp im runnin a monster port 750 secondaries and mad other shyt with 12 psi on stock turbo w/ ported wg but im getting rid of the stock turbo for a bnr stg 4 looking for about 450 whp
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ya i have a stage 2 BNR on it and i think i got 720 secodnaies and i am trying to hit 350 on that set up
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even on stock port that shouldnt be a problem 350 is nice you can still whip the thing around im planning for show and autox with mine when its all done with
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Originally Posted by JWteknix
thats wut im running right now exactly why i fixed my harness man i just started running it broke in my new engine on it then pulled every thing aprt again for the winter make over
As they say, nani-desu WTF?
I got it, but that has to be THE most horribly written sentence in English...lol.
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ya well lucky for me mine came with a street port. but im trying to build mine to talk on all the red necks that think there cars are gods.
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yeah i love ripping on v8s its such a good feeling with your 1.3l
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ya lol its even better when your whole school parking lot is full of them and they try and talk down to the 7 and then it puts them in there place.
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