Harness tucking fun!

[Odysseus]

So I am gonna be buying Stance GR+ Pro coilovers and Circuit Sport RUCAs/toe arms very very shortly and thanks to some of you in the technical section I decided to tuck my harness so I dont burn through it. It was my first time really taking apart my car like that so it was a nice learning experience.

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c253/Zachho/Sileighty/Harness002.jpg

Fenders off, harness in stock spot

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c253/Zachho/Sileighty/Harness005.jpg

At this point I was wondering what in the hell I got myself into

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c253/Zachho/Sileighty/Harness006.jpg

Loose harness

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c253/Zachho/Sileighty/Harness007.jpg
http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c253/Zachho/Sileighty/Harness008.jpg

Tucked and tied

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c253/Zachho/Sileighty/Harness012.jpg
http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c253/Zachho/Sileighty/Harness013.jpg

Fenders back on

So yeah, getting it all off was cake..Half hour job including tucking the harness up. Getting the fenders back on and aligned. TERRIBLE! Took me hours haha...The harness made the fenders fit alot tighter. The passenger side was a smaller harness so it was easy but the driver side I had to remove the plastic cover and then I re-electrical taped it. That made it smaller and then it fit.

I noticed that the conversion was half assed too. Im missing so many nuts and bolts it was stupid. Half the shit wasnt even finger tight. So I completly re-did it and its almost golden...

Lastly....I know I have to hammer a little lip flat so it doesnt shred my tires. Is it that skinny thing hanging down? I dont wanna smash up the wrong thing..

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c253/Zachho/Sileighty/Harness011.jpg

I think I should make a build thread haha :)

[nismo racer]

looks good, but if you are gonna ride low id find a way to tuck the harness more at the part near the fire wall, it might rub when you take turns hard. well at least thats what happen with my harness but i tucked it in good and ziptied it down.

[Odysseus]

Thanks man. Ill keep an eye on that...

[Leetheslacker]

next time pull off the plastic sheathing shit.

gives you more room to pull it up and makes it thinner so it doesnt fuck up your fender as much.

[Odysseus]

next time pull off the plastic sheathing shit.

gives you more room to pull it up and makes it thinner so it doesnt fuck up your fender as much.

I did end up doing that on the driver side. That harness was alot thicker so I took of the plastic and re-taped it. I couldnt get my fender on with the plastic crap.

The passenger side was already a small harness so it fit really well.

[Ceepo]

Here is how i did it, the pictures are on the pass side but i did both sides, normally you just have to do driver side if im not mistaken but im anal lol...

http://c2.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/6/l_6100797aaed44812b31a4ea4d5caacb1.jpg

http://c1.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/16/l_dd4d8f9ab7954c37b72fe7783bf76298.jpg

http://c4.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/60/l_627d00f7dca74e08afde060ccca80e33.jpg

And probably the coolest zip ties for doing this!!!

http://c1.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/19/l_3ee95bcc82ba45e78812e07ed7b08fc4.jpg

Didnt mean to reign on you topic just thought i would post this :)

[d r i f t swift]

while you were at it you shoulda hammered that lip up. you know the one thats right under the strut tower.. will slice the shit out of your tires if youre low enough and yeah.

[Ceepo]

yeah i did that 2 but no pictures, its hell on you tires at events lol... i took a cut off wheel and cut it lol...

[junkyiv]

^ +1. I was just about to say the same thing. In addition if you haven't already hammer the seams on the subframe as well.

[junkyiv]

yeah i did that 2 but no pictures, its hell on you tires at events lol... i took a cut off wheel and cut it lol...

:tweak: Did you happen to re-weld it? That area is a pinch/spot weld for the body structure. It would kinda suck for the front end to end up just falling apart because of that. :tweak:

[FunctionFiRst]

yeah, hammer that lip down and then primer it so it doesn't rust.

http://c1.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/16/l_dd4d8f9ab7954c37b72fe7783bf76298.jpg

nice coils!

[Ceepo]

Thanks thats my old car, i have a s14 now :) i only cut a little bit out and painted it, not to much to be worried about chassis support :) or chassis failure :) thanks for the comments guys :)

[Flicktitty]

Nice Thread, thanks guys!

[Odysseus]

Does anyone have pics of what it should look like once its hammered?

[d r i f t swift]

Does anyone have pics of what it should look like once its hammered?

old shitty pictures.. but you get the idea.. grab some vice grips.. fold it in.. and then just hammer it flat.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v356/emilihoe/rubspots3.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v356/emilihoe/rubspots2.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v356/emilihoe/rubspots1.jpg

[Odysseus]

Thank you sir! Ill be on that friday afternoon since its my next day off.

Coilovers are getting ordered tuesday so they should be on the weekend after next...

[ManoNegra]

Just did my S14 yesterday

hammered part of the lip for added clearance
http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/313/hammeredlip.jpg

removed one of the plastic harness holders
freed the harness
cleaned the metal and attached sticky zip-tie-holding fasteners
http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/404/looseharness.jpg

re-taped harness and put it in place
http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/4927/alldone.jpg

hammered the taped harness so that it would sit more flat
http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/74/fromabove.jpg


not so sure how well it'll work
but I'm not planning to slam the car
if it still rubs then I'll just relocate the harness to the engine bay.
-juan

[blitzsti22]

i need to do this too i just got coilovers and its cutting my wires up

[Geezy]

hate to bump an old thread. but i recently acquired some new fenders to replace my old warped ones. the harness had been tucked a long time ago. now im trying to adjust my new fenders to keep them flush and that driver side harness is being a pain in the ass and misaligning the fender. how do you solve this??

[nieko]

What I did to solve that....

Undo all the tape on those wires, so they lay flatter, instead of a fat bulge.

if they are ziptied up nicely, it wont be a problem.

:D

[Geezy]

so instead of the loom being round, spread em out flat?

[thenooblet]

hate to bump an old thread. but i recently acquired some new fenders to replace my old warped ones. the harness had been tucked a long time ago. now im trying to adjust my new fenders to keep them flush and that driver side harness is being a pain in the ass and misaligning the fender. how do you solve this??

im having the same problem...

[repda916]

im having the same problem...
its easy, what you do it take the harness all off and run it IN the engine bay over the shock tower. will NEVER have to worry about that thing rubbing

[chiboy002]

so instead of the loom being round, spread em out flat?
yep. wrap in some tape and hammer them flat



My front seam is breaking apart, the one in the wheel well, how do i fix?