dennis blackstone

is there a reliable plug and play haltech out there for the average person....we dont have any installers in my area so i thought if they have a plug and play model ...i coulld try and install it..i read most post of the difficulty on instlling one ..

fritts

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There is a plug and play available but I wouldn't use one unless your harness is perfect as the harness are usually crap at the cars age. There is another option coming soon as a terminated harness (currently it says for the sport 2000, but my guess is a 1000 too).

dennis blackstone

have you used one

fritts

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We sell them but have not used one personally. I like to replace the harness whenever possible.

C. Ludwig

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The full replacement harness from Haltech is going to be a pretty penny when they're released. There are certainly less expensive options that offer the same level of quality.

dennis blackstone

do you have any examples

C. Ludwig

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fritts

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Chris are you making these harnesses? Or is this the Haltech example. Either way looks like a great option.

C. Ludwig

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Thanks. We build them. Been doing FC and FB replacement harnesses for a couple years. The patch harness is for an FD.

Have you heard the price on the Haltech option? Pretty spendy.

The Haltech harness does have one really neat feature in that the ignition side of things is made in a modular fashion. We build our harnesses to spec, so it's a bit different, but I have started incorporating a connector on the ignition side to have the same modular effect. If we build the harness for stock FC coils and the customer later wants to upgrade to a different coil or CDI we don't have to hack up the whole harness and start over. We go back to the connector, unplug it, plug in another ignition harness for the new configuration and go.

It's not shown in the pics but when we build a harness we have the customer send in any of the stock components they're going to reuse (CAS, coils, TPS, etc.). We cut off the stock connectors and refit everything with Deutsch connectors. It makes fitting a replacement part a little more complicated but we feel the new, high quality connector is the right way to go. Haltech is taking a different approach in that they have sourced mating stock connectors so it's a complete plug-in option.

For anyone that's going to make it to DGRR, we should have one of the new Haltech replacement harnesses there as well as a harness we're building for the 20B FB.

fritts

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I have never understood Haltech's pricing on components especially many easily available parts that are here in the US. So I have no doubt it will cost a lot for their harness. You are doing it the right way though. If I was an FC or FB owner looking for a replacement your harness would be the way I would go especially if I was afraid of doing the wiring myself.