How to extend your harness, 1994gts ---> 3sgte 3th gen Options

[Needles]

this is not something i suggest for people ,its just one way u can acheive extend your wiring
there is a lots of way to extend your wiring when you do your swap.
this is one way, the one i did, whitout really being prepared.

u can use this and form your own way to do it urself from there

first you will need the following tool:
---one good wire splice tool..((sorry im french) (to easely took out the too many wire u will have to splice))
---one pencil torch or a bic lighter
---cutter
---shrink tube to cover and securise each connection (dont use tape)
---welding pencil
--- weldind metal
---use scott towell to clean your welding pencil and keep the same

u will need some patience also

how to weld:

first , u will need to learn how to weld, its pretty easy
thecnique for welding=when you have two wire u can connect them by twisting it or separate each wire inside from each other in form of star (what i did) and just reach them together and twist it around all wire together, its not important if its not hold tight at this point, your weld will tight it off
whaen u weld its 3 point weld for those wire, one touch (1 or 2 sec) on top and one touch on each side of the wire whit your pencil weld and the wire weld stuff, if the stuff dont weld nicely on the wire, you can slide your pencil a little bit, dont put too much stuff cause ur wire gonna be too big and the resistance not appropriate and u will have trouble loom it back inside the hole of the firewall

after cutting any wire be sure to place your rubber piece around the two side of wire...or you will have to cut it back for nothing, thats frustrating

after joined the wire together and weld it, u just slide the rubber and heat it up, ( dont use the red flamme of the lighter or torch, u dont want to burn it, you want to heat it so that can shrink whitout burning, use the blue of your lighter or place ur rubber very near of your lighter)

i did extend my wiring whit my engine and everything installed in the car

first you start by unloom your wiring behin your charge cooler, until the end plug to cpu,

from there you will have to unloom all your old wiring from 5sfe get some mesure (i use something like 28 to 30 inch) 28 is minimum, and then cut all my old wire from old harness at the same lenght, after you will want to cut the tip of each side to prepared to be connected (unloom the tip)try to use the same color for your extention.but i ended up missing some wire for match color...i used other color wire or u can buy the missing one to match color.


one good step to start the job is to seek where the jonction is, some wire alone , split in 3 at certain time, so extend the one wire not the 3 wire ... so, you will have to cut it to different place, check it and figure it out, the best way to start the job is to cut the wire (i think 2 or 3 ) that are alone from the harness
red blue wire i think not sure) these wire are separate in the harness from all junction , so its a good way to start, cut those one, and extend it and put it a part ,on the side, each time you will cut and extend one wire at a time ,and put it on the side, whit the other wire ,that are already extend . so you dont get confuse, i suggest to cut one wire at a time and extend it and finish it and put it on the side before cutting another wire but, my friend who show me this have started the job by cutting a couple wire and identyfy the one whit same color, i think its better to do mit one at a time, abunch of wire will be in the way, so you maybe want to put those on the wiper, put the whipper up and put ur extra extended wire there, at this point some wire on the wiper, some on the right side are extend and in the middle still the wiring that is not extend


the wire in the picture is the one that is good to start whit


just continue the process until its done, be sure to secure each connection when melting the rubber on it, it need to secure humidity, think of that

the rest is looming back the harness together, im sure at this point you have your own idea how to do it lol



dont use that torch, lighter is better or pencil torch




This post has been edited by Needles: May 12, 2011 - 11:28 AM

[njccmd2002]

nah the best way to solder is to get the wires together and use a strand of wire to hold them together and then solder over that strand both wires.

just like tying shoelaces.

thats what i did on my swap.






that belly u see there is the wire holding the wires together and then soldered over, yeah its overkill but it will never break