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Just about a completed harness:

http://www.mitsustyle.com/photopost/...redotheygo.jpg


Have to solder up a few things, test fit it in the car and then fix anything else I see. After the engine harness, I get to work on moving the fuse box.... :(

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Nice work.

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Thanks. It's pretty tedious work but it's not bad once you get into it.

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What all did you take out of the harness? I'm guessing the brake fluid sensor and whatever else is pretty worthless along the firewall. Was it hard to get the harness out? I might be doing this to my car now.

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Its not too bad to remove the harness. You have to remove the glove box and the metal bar it bolts to, then remove the 2 parts of the heater core on the passenger side and it's a piece of cake then.

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Mounted the 99.9% finished harness in the engine bay tonight. Have to modify the hole a little bit so the plug fits, but I'm happy with the results:

http://www.dsmstyle.com/photopost/data/627/SDC11280.JPG

http://www.dsmstyle.com/photopost/data/627/SDC11281.JPG

Here's a shitty photo I tried to take of how I routed my wires:

http://www.dsmstyle.com/photopost/data/627/SDC11283.JPG

Yeah, I just noticed that ground too. Once I have my transmission installed again I will have the starter harness in there as well. But that's all you will see as far as engine bay wires.

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Very nice. I like how you ran it through the other side of the intake manifold.

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Thanks. Yours is looking very good too.


I finished hooking the entire engine harness up. Besides the plugs which go to the fuse box, this is what the engine bay looks like with everything hooked up:

http://www.mitsustyle.com/photopost/...m/SDC11285.JPG

Here's where I ran the plug for the wiper motor:

http://www.mitsustyle.com/photopost/...m/SDC11287.JPG

One more pic behind the motor:

http://www.mitsustyle.com/photopost/...m/SDC11284.JPG


Anybody want to donate a shit-ton of wire? Looking at just the main fuse box harness, I have over 40 wires to cut and extend about 7.5 feet.

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Good luck on the fuse box. I decided I'm just gonna leave mine where it is. What are you gonna do to plug the whole up where the harness used to be?

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I have a plastic plug I'm going to put in there.

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I've decided to leave the fuse box alone for the time being. Just have to extend a few more wires and it'll be done as far as wiring goes.

http://www.mitsustyle.com/photopost/...m/SDC11290.JPG

Here's the plug I used. It's the same one I used in my Laser's stock sidemount hole:

http://www.mitsustyle.com/photopost/...m/SDC11291.JPG

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The fuse box really doesn't look all that bad. Sometimes I think of just putting mine back in the stock location. Just gotta shine it all up.

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Exactly my thinking. Instead of creating even more potential problem areas and having to extend a shit-ton of wires leaves me wanting to leave the fuse box alone. If you clean up everything else in the engine bay, the fuse box doesn't look too bad. I'll have to clean it up good and put some tire shine or something on it.


Not to mention it won't get wet there, and I can easily access it.....unlike my Laser....lol

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The wiring looks super clean as-is! I say leave the fuse box, keep it functional/easy to access. Where do people normally put it? Where the stock SMIC goes?

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That is where me and Andy put ours. He never had a problem, but I've gone through a few relays due to water and poor splash guards.

I'm going to leave it in the stock location on my Talon. Like you said, easy access, dry, and still looks very noice. :)

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wow nice work on this thing, it looks like it went into decent hands, the bullet holes were really fuckin cool i loved those when i got the car lol

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Oh yeah, it adds a lot of character in my opinion. You know they were shooting at the car as the car was driving away....lol

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Thanks to Jed, I have a few more parts to add to the car:

http://www.mitsustyle.com/photopost/...m/SDC11293.JPG

http://www.mitsustyle.com/photopost/...m/SDC11294.JPG

http://www.mitsustyle.com/photopost/...m/SDC11295.JPG

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Are you sure you dont want my dnp? It's only been welded once! :p You gonna bring the car to the dyno day at MAP and DB?

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Yea, I'm sure. I will try and plan to bring it up there as I really want some numbers for myself.