re-rx7

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Does anyone have a link or a Diy on how to wire tuck on fc?

MmSadda

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wtf is a wire tuck??

Icemark

wire tuck?

what are you wanting to do?

The Wankler

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I get the jist of it, but I have only seen a couple rx's like that in the past. Both cars had no pwr steering, emissions ect.

magus2222

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honda guys do it alot when they want to hide all the wires and such. they usually cut a hole somewhere in the wheel well or some other place and route the wiring so as to not show the wires, but make the engine look like there is nothing attached to it.
muscle carish, but honda?!?!

peace

The Wankler

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It would be a hell of a lot easier on a carbed engine.

jdmsuper7

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VW guys do it all the time. It seems like more trouble then its worth unless its a pure show car.

re-rx7

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Yea my car is a mess under the hood... Any other idea?? Bundle the wires? Loom? Thanks in advance!

re-rx7

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Hide and or clean up the messy wires underneath my hood. I do not have P/s or A/c

classicauto

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Run them all through the frame rails and minimize the harnesses to include only the things you're going to use.

There's no real write up, its a custom procedure. You just have to do it.

re-rx7

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I Think iam gonna do this and do a writeup for the archives.

WingsofWar

If your going to do a wire tuck you must be aware that you have to modify the harness. By doing a tuck you will need to extend wires and routing them in different areas of the bay. Most people i know shorten the harness and route them in different holes available via firewall behind the intake manifold. It gives the illusion that there are no wires because of the compact design of the shorter harness.

Tools you will need:

Good Wire Stripper tool

Wire 14gauge - works well (someone correct me if this is not the appropriate wire)
*different colors for better coding if your OCD like that*

Sodering Iron and Sodering wire - You will need to do lots of sodering

Shrink wrap - for better quality protection

Plastic wire loom - for weather protection

LOTS of electrical Tape

You can do a half tuck or full tuck. The FD picture attached is a full tuck.

Havoc

Im doing this to my FC now... real pain in the *** !!

re-rx7

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I have haltec so maybe that will ease the pain!

scathcart

That's fairly large for most of the engine wire. That's typically what you would run with a 15 or 20A circuit, such as for the fuel pump, or the coil power circuit Really, only the injectors would need a large cable, but even then you'd be fine with something like a 16 AWG. The rest of the wires are all low current sensors, so 18-20 AWG wire is more than adequate.

Havoc

It will, but Im re routing all the main engine fuses, putting my cdi ignition under the dash, new relays etc.

Hiding the actural wires will be the easy bit.

Seem's to be a much more common thing to try and do down here then the USA

re-rx7

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Iam just tired of my engine bay looking like ****!

nitroracer

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Ive tucked the passenger side harness. due to how easy it is. Im also tackling the driver side harness, pondering where to run things.

digitalsolo

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I no longer have a rotary, but I managed to reroute all the wiring to hide all systems, minus the primary fuse/headlight/turn signal harness. I culled all unnecessary wires and cleaned everything up dramatically. Looks MUCH nicer in the bay now.

MJG

I just looked at my engine bay earlier and it looked fairly easy on the passenger side (for you US guys), I'd probably run it in the inner arch/wheel well wherever there is clearance, the only thing that looks like it may need extending is the couple of plugs up behind the strut top.

I havn't looked at the rest of the wiring but it looks simple enough, I don't mind having the coils exposed etc and am not going to go crazy to hide EVERYTHING, but the wiring in the FC engine bay is a right mess so hiding it should make it look a lot nicer

SDrotary-FC

call this guy

http://www.chasebaysonline.com/

First gen man

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Ya, the chase bays guy is pretty insane. I seen them in a project car magazine doing up a crx this month. He did an exceptional job with the brake booster delete and all. They even went into filling all the holes in the stock bay.

I completely re-wired my car for various reasons, one was the wire tucked bay effect. I ran all the engine component wiring (microtech loom) through a hole almost shooting straight down onto the tranny (on the firewall straight behind the center of the engine), and ran the wires up to feed the engine that way. They're pretty much unnoticeable unless you stand by the doors of the car.

I also ran all the headlight, E-fan, and front blinker assembly bullshit through the fender.

Also, without wiring a full car, you can take the stock FC wiring harness and extend a few connectors wires, and get it ran through a hole behind the engine. The right side harness can simply be extended to hide most of it in the fenders.