Mini wire-tuck on the evo
 

After drooling over kevin's 1G a little on friday night I decided to see what I could do to clean up the stock wire routing. I ran the wires that go across the intake manifold every which way and ended up settling on leaving about half running across the top front and all of the manifold-mounted sensors and TB wires run underneath and tucked.

http://www.scheides.com/albums/evo8/IMG_8111.sized.jpg

http://www.scheides.com/albums/evo8/IMG_8112.sized.jpg

http://www.scheides.com/albums/evo8/IMG_8113.sized.jpg

http://www.scheides.com/albums/evo8/IMG_8114.sized.jpg

The pile of little mounting clips and crap I removed:
http://www.scheides.com/albums/evo8/IMG_8115.sized.jpg


Overall I'm kinda happy, but for this to really work I'd still need to extend:
-all 4 injector leads
-front o2 lead
-power steering lead
-ignition leads to left coil

Anyone know where I could get extension plugs/mini-harnesses to make this happen w/o cutting up my harness?

Here's a more stock-ish shot from about 2 years ago just for reference:
http://www.scheides.com/albums/evo8/DSC00606.sized.jpg

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looks alot cleaner

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Just extend the wires. You'll have to either way if you want to do a semi-clean wire tuck. Make sure you do a good, clean job however you extend them. There's a lot of moving things and vibration.

When I did the Laser, I had to extend only a few wires but they were for the rf pop up motor.

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Ya, see I suck at soldering so that's the thing preventing me from taking a snips to them immediately :D

Some day I'm sure I'll break down and get r done, extending this one harness alone would clean up the engine bay considerably.

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Looks a tad better, mitsu doesnt like to make engine bays too pretty. Its hard to work around all the clutter.

Your air filter needs an oiling or replacement, its kinda rusty! haha

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Ya don't mind the rusty filter, it'll get replaced someday :P

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Get that battery in the back too, that will clean it up considerably. When I extended some of my harness, I just used extending crimpers. Just wrap them real good with electrical tape and I don't think you'll have a problem.

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extending crimpers? Please explain!

Mini battery is good enough for me, no need for a move to the trunk.

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I would recommend soldering. Would look a lot cleaner and be the best connection possible with no chance of coming apart under vibrations or anything.

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Like these:

http://www.wiringproducts.com/conten...h-outlined.jpg

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Butt connectors.

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I'm not a fan of butt connectors. No matter how hard you crimp them, they always seem to find a way to come apart later.

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ahh ok....ya meh, I dunno. So much vital stuff running through those wires I dunno if I wanna fuk with those. I'd prolly solder them if anything.

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Scheides, get a nice soldering iron and just some extra wire looms and practice soldering pieces together. I love soldering stuff nowadays now that I know the right way to go about doing it.

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If you need some help, I am pretty dang good at soldering. I had to shorten, extend, add and remove wires when I did my harness.

lmk.

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I know I know, I can solder, I have done it plenty, but I just have to build up the courage to do this, lots of stuff to break by F'ing up this solder job. I usually have only a handfull of wires to do, I can handle that. This is like 20+ (x2, one solder joint on each end) = 40+ times for me to epic fail.

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When I exteneded some of the wires for my mini-tuck I just used those butt splices that have the heat-shrink on them, so you just have to crimp down the bitt splice, and heat up the heat-shrink, so they're nice and sealed up. After I did that I wrapped it all in electrical tape, and some day I'll get some actual wire loom covering to put it all in. I also have a really nice soldering iron, and if you decide you wanna attack it, let me know, and I'll come give you a hand.

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You're building it up in your head too much, it's really super easy. Just one at a time. Get some flux to make it even easier, but you should have a really easy time since your wires are relatively new and not corroded and green like alot of mine.

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Kevin, where did you get those? I guess it's an option, and I could always do that, make sure all is dandy, then solder later (read: never)...there's just so many wires! Perhaps a winter project...

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You can always fix the wiring if you mess up, just cut out where you messed it up and start over.