Fixing a 2nd gen 3sgte harness / preping for my swap, no, its not going in Jenns car, its going in MINE! ;) Options

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so yea,
as most of ya know, we recently did up a 3rd gen swap for jim and as "payment" he gave me his 2nd gen setup.
as most of ya also know, this setup was originally RJB23's car, which was pretty much a mess from the day jim and shannon bought it.
Click me for details of that story

so once we got the 2nd gen motor up here, it has been sitting on a stand, waiting its turn.
i finally got around to getting the harness off, and am starting to get it cleaned, stripped, repaired, rerouted, rewrapped, and reloomed.
like everything else about the swap in that car, this engine harness was no diffrent, and in defense to the guy who did it (IIRC DGperformace did it) it did work, it was just routed and wrapped all crazy, and the ECU end basicly looked like a birds nest from people troubleshooting the ecu and wiring while it was in the car.
so i started tearing into it, and dustin came by last night and helped me get the interior plugs sorted out, since there was lots of "dead" (wires that go to nowhere) wires in the harness.
i also removed all the stuff i wont need or use, including all the ac stuff, TVIS, TVSV, ect.
once that was done, i went about cleaning and fixing any loose or broken wires, (there were a few, one of which wouldnt allow the car to start with the key...lmao) and rerouting and rewrapping it, getting it ready to be reloomed.
here are a few pics of how that is going.

first, the before. sorry for the blurry pic, its the only one i took..lol



this wire was in the harness that was routed behind the intake manifold, instead of inside of it, like it should be, and chaffed on the IM until it broke..just so happens this is the wire that tells the starter to crank. yes, jim, this really is why your car wouldnt start with the key! lmao



how the ECU side of the harness looks now:



and some of the leftovers:


and just for refrence, a pic of what a stock USDM 3s harness looks like, for an idea of what this one should look like when its done.


ill keep updating this thread and adding pics as i go along and continue with the project.

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as promised, a few pics.
the harness is 99% finished here, just need to finish wrap it, and get some convoluted tubing.

what a bitch. im not sure exactly what approach tweak takes when doing this conversion for people, but whatever it is, just pay the man.
its worth it. and pay him extra to loom your harness in the proper order, so that you dont end up with a harness that looked like RJB's.

this is what it looks like now:



the pile of extra wire....look dan, weight savings!!!!!!!!!



and finally the tools i used to do this:
pictured left to right are:
bluepoint butane soldering iron: man, this thing will solder anything. as you can see in the pic, it has interchangeable tips, a few diffrent soldering ones, and heat shrink one and a little blow torch tip.
it heats up FAST, and is temp adjustable, and gets hot enough to solder basicly any wire in a harness, i had to do a couple of the thicker battery ones (like the alternator ones) and this thing got it done in seconds. there is no way my old 40W plug in deal would have been able to handle that.
bluepoint wirestripper / crimper a good wirestripper is a must for a job like that
upper right is the craftsman mulitmeter it has a "continuity check" feature that i use to check each system as i wired it back in to make sure it worked.
lower right: cornwell import terminal tool kit this kit will remove any pin from any plug on imports. (the safety pin pictured on the case works as well..lol)
and a whole crap load of shrink wrap. lmao