Engine Wiring 101

[RICE RACING]

Originally Posted by C. Ludwig

I don't even use electrical tape to bundle wires for a harness. Leaves too much residue and bulks up under the shrink. I use Kapton tape. Holds well and leaves no residue.

Here is a good write up on harness construction. http://www.rbracing-rsr.com/sq6wiringloom.html

(rbracing)So Bob is a friend of mine, he lists some cool stuff on his site and he has done more then any of the pretenders on the internest can dream about, inc racing at Le-Mans. We are both Pectel ECU runners

I agree with Ted though, some of the stuff seen there is just way over the top and nothing to do with this poor blokes thread.

Lets face it who the fuck has $25,000 worth of electronics in their cars? let alone $5,000 worth of wiring and connectors @ cost price.

LOTS of good wiring can be done for a fraction of the price and no need to go to Raychem boots or DR heat shrink etc etc etc .......

And fuck me all jesting aside there is nothing wrong with soldering so long as you know how to fucking use one!

Once good set of wire strippers, a few good crimping tools, some Deutsch connectors, some heat shrink, some braided conjuit and you can make a nice harness for a fraction of the dildo spec NASA race team spec



I think people just get way carried away with this must be Autosport connectors, cryton dildo tape, mil spec tefzel wire, fucken DCM crimpers blah blah blah blah................ nice if you are rich but not everyone is, so no need to say this is what it is and the rest is shit.

There is stuff you can do for a 1/10th of the price and for the layman hobbiest its going to last you a fucking life time!