[Mk2] [Turbo] Wire tuck and potential for removing unwanted wiring??

[jimGTS]

On a side note, I may well use these for a my gauge sensor, fan and WI wiring now to the cabin

[madbasshunter]

yeh there is a small hole drivers side. for the boot release i think.


the harness is not really open to much bending at all, certainly no sharp turns, so being able to work in that area will be tricky.

you can get away with it for speaker wiring. but for it to work for me, it had to be passengers side, and theres nothing i could feel there, well not big enough for a harness, and no way enough room to be able to cut a 50mm hole in it.

My audio wiring is a bit more extreme than you might imagine on the passenger side I have two 25mm conduits of wire and two 15mms running to the boot.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/547gwlsugx0ki ... 7.jpg?dl=0
Sorry it's not the greatest picture I had to peel back the sound deadening to try and get it

[jimGTS]

that is alot.


how did you manage to drill out in that location??


ho hum, im happy where it is as everything plugs straight in like stock on the cabin side.
im not in the mood to try any other routing for now, it was a mare getting this back in!

[adam3442]

unfortunately not.

the area behind the rear speakers, its blocked there, no passage back into the cabin.


more i take out, more there is to clean 20 years of dust/grime!


im sure if you fully stripped the shell, you could figure a way of doing it, as well as having to actually rewire it all, but this way is less stress and hassle.

This is how I did mine. Put a hole saw through the car the same diameter as the original wiring grommet and refitted it. Perfect fit.

[jimGTS]

Well few more updates, but everytime I get something out and look in the bay I see even more things to remove or reroute!

Decided to strip down the engine harness, reroute a few sensors also remove all wiring all the way up to the ecu connectors from plugs now longer in use!
Ie now no longer have tvsv, a/c idle up, cat temp, a/c, canister wiring in the harness at all.

The fan wiring, ait sensor wiring, also the mass of wiring for the diag port are also getting moved. I'm going to route the former over the arches now and diag/map sensor through a inlet mani runner or strip it back all the way into the boot.

The abs sensor wiring, drivers side there is a lot of wiring, so will also go over the arch now.
As well as my boost hose to the cabin.

I have plans to route fuel lines also now over the passenger side arch and into the boot.

I've also rerouted the engine lid cable over the arch!

Expansion tank also removed and into the boot.


Things have changed since this picture, but only boot pic I have at the mo








Though with things progressing, all those ground wires from engine to chassis, chassis to inspection panels, etc are showing now.
Can I somehow move these to a more hidden location?

[jimGTS]

loom is back together

minus;

a/c wires
tvsv wires
cat temp sensors wires
fan wires
a/c idle up wires
charcoal canister wires
engine lid sensor wires
fan control ecu wires (lots of these)


ive probably stripped the loom by a 1/3
surprisingly the oem loom has lots of spliced wires which i wasnt expecting, but i guess how else do you supply ground, 12v and 5v lines to a number of sensors at the same time. ive stripped alot of these back now as well.

comfortably back in the car, along with the new rerouted loom for diag port and map sensor! its no longer running over the wire housing over the injectors, but now in the boot!

hooked it all up, and aside from a mix up with not splicing the VC wire with another (had code 31 (map sensor) and code 47), all is now well!

no error codes.


that phantom code 47, that noone ever knows what it is, i can tell you its related to the ABS loom!
i had the drivers side unplugged as im rerouting it. plug it back in, code gone!


was like this at one stage

[jimGTS]

incase anyone isnt up to date with my project thread for where i got with this wiretuck stuff, made sense to update this thread

http://www.imoc.co.uk/forums/viewtopic. ... &start=240


current results

[abovetherim]

nom nom nom nom....

[madbasshunter]

Neat

[synXero]

Makes you wonder why they didn't leave the factory like that!

[jimGTS]

Cheers chaps

A bloody boat load of hours has gone into that engine bay now!

Still more to do as well.

[Martin F]

Looks Great Jim, well worth the work from what I can see, well done

You will soon be struggling to come up with things to do on the car

[2barGee]

Jim are you going to plump the crank case breather back into the intake?

[jimGTS]

Jim are you going to plump the crank case breather back into the intake?

nope

hasnt been plugged in for a good while.

[2barGee]

Jim are you going to plump the crank case breather back into the intake?

nope

hasnt been plugged in for a good while.

Mine is currently like yours, do you think it affects the crankcase in anyway as surely when it's plumbed into the intake that pulls the pressure from the crank case?

Loving the wire tuck! Fancy doing mine

[jimGTS]

im not convinced it really does much pulling, more is just guided into the turbo blades as stock for emissions reasons.

though thats not to say "pulling" out the gases isnt a good idea, but only true way to "pull" out those gases is via connecting it to the exhaust system.

i prefer to not introduce oil gases to my intake, in turn lowering the octane.