derf
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| posted on 23/8/05 at 03:20 PM |
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Started to wire last night....
All of you who said that it is nice clean work are liars. My hands were black like I was playing with a lump of coal.
Oh boy, fun. I labeled everything, or so I thought. I have the original wire harness from the rx7, plus the engine to match, the factory wire diagram
(all 118 pages). I placed the battery, and the main fuse box in the car last night, stripped all the tape off the loom, and had time to chase 1 wire
from the fuse box out to the plug where it ends. It just so happened that this 1 plug isnt marked (Lucky me). So 2.5 hours worth of work and I'm
still not sure where the plug goes too. I just want to get rid of all the wires that i don't need, like sunroof, power windows, power locks, AC
etc....
I took some pics with my cell, I'll try and post them up later.
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JoelP
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| posted on 23/8/05 at 03:30 PM |
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i lost most of my labels en route!  unavoidable  
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DarrenW
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| posted on 23/8/05 at 03:30 PM |
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It is nice clean work if you are using a nice new clean loom
There is no way i would have attempted to graft in the Sierra donor loom into my nice new clean shiny car
I have put a mk2 Golf Gti loom into a Mk1 before and wouldnt do it again (I also fitted a BMW dash at the same time - as before wouldnt do it
again!).
I would recommend starting with a kit car loom such as Premier wiring. Of course your problem is they dont do one for the RX7. However i have found
that by using the Sierra based loom i had to mnodify / tie up a lot of wiring i didnt use as i junked all of the Sierra switch gear and used a
Digidash anyway. I found this part of the build immensely satisfying after i got my head around it.
Biggest tip with wiring - once you start dont stop till its done. I tried leaving it a few weeks and spent more time retracing my last steps. I ended
up taking 2 days off work and did it all no problems (thanks Mark (Mac#1)!!!).
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James
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| posted on 23/8/05 at 03:30 PM |
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Working with the *old* loom isn't the nice bit!
If the nice, clean, shiny loom that's more interesting to work with!
Good luck,
James
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"The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses, behind the lines, in the gym and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights."
- Muhammad Ali
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phoenix70
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| posted on 23/8/05 at 03:34 PM |
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Oh dear,
To be honest, I tried to strip down the loom from my donor car, but after a week of tracing wires and cutting out the sections that I didn't
need, I gave up as it still looked a mess, and most of the wires that were left were too long and needed shortened. I went to Premier Wiring and got
a loom from them, definately worth the £100 I paid for it
Later
Scott
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chrisf
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| posted on 23/8/05 at 04:26 PM |
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That was me that said it was relaxing, clean work. I’m not lying. You’re either working in a different environment or with different materials. When I
initially made the statement, we discussed wiring from scratch—which is what I did. Best of luck. I look forward to the pictures.
--Chris
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Russ-Turner
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| posted on 23/8/05 at 04:43 PM |
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This'll be a treat lads:
Preliminary outlook-bleak
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theconrodkid
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| posted on 23/8/05 at 05:40 PM |
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its only wire and most are different colours,the manual has a wiring diagram....back in time for lunch
seirousley tho,pull the wires you need and leave the rest,you will be suprised at how little wire you will use,they will all be the right colour and a
bit too long,take your time and it is easy
who cares who wins
pass the pork pies
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JoelP
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| posted on 23/8/05 at 05:58 PM |
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my approach, would be to keep the engine wiring as intact as possible, and make the rest from scratch. If using a sierra column, try to keep the
switches intact too.
obviously doesnt really apply in america, that last bit, as usually not a sierra donor
[Edited on 23/8/05 by JoelP]
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shades
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| posted on 23/8/05 at 09:38 PM |
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I bought labels from http://www.cable-labels.com/ and marked everything on the coffe table first... Have heaps left over
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derf
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| posted on 24/8/05 at 04:33 PM |
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Dirty yes, but it is kind of relaxing to just sit there, cut the wire, trace it back to the plug and solder it back.
I have not been doing bad so far.
My engine harness has been slightly cut up (my fault) but it has given me a great place to start on. I started to trace wires from the ecu to their
plugs around the engine. Ive located 14 wires so far, and created 1 complete loom to the ecu, wired up the injectors, placed the main fuse block, and
decided that there are still 15,000,000,000 wires left to go through so i need to find out which ones I don't need.
Ive also come to the realisation that japanese electrical engineers design their wire diagrams to show their prowess at making thing as complicated as
possible. I keep finding more pages that say refer to page 15-67 which is in a completely different part of the manual, so now my 118 page wire
diagram has grown to a little over 280 pages.
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