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

[presure2]

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.

[lagos]

so i was looking at my harness here, and correct me if Im wrong, but it seems like you have two ways of flipping the harness.

1. flip it all the way down around where the injectors are. This will give you the cleanest flip, but you will have to shorten a lot of the harness because it will be too long at this point.
2. flip it somewhere before the injectors. However with this method, you will have to bend the harness in half and possibly create a bulge from bending all that wire.

or am i missing something here?

[presure2]

so i was looking at my harness here, and correct me if Im wrong, but it seems like you have two ways of flipping the harness.

1. flip it all the way down around where the injectors are. This will give you the cleanest flip, but you will have to shorten a lot of the harness because it will be too long at this point.
2. flip it somewhere before the injectors. However with this method, you will have to bend the harness in half and possibly create a bulge from bending all that wire.

or am i missing something here?

art, once you unloom the jdm harness from the boot, past the injectors, you pull everything but the coil, ignitor, map, diagonostics box, afm, waterneck, reverselight switch, tps, and speed sensor twoards the USDM passanger side of the harness. you may or may not have to cut and splice a few wires along the way to get it to come apart, and then you will have to legthen all the wires for all the stuff i listed above except the TPS and speed sensor.
then on the other side of the injectors, you will have a load of extra wire, you cut that out, resplice it together (it should be alot less than i had to do if its not already extended) and your good to go.

i cant see flipping it before the injectors, kinda defeats the purpose.