Wires wires

Whew, ok started the rewiring project. Here’s the engine bay as it was at start of today.

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Bust out the box, check it out, was shipped in a JDM box. Haven’t bothered to figure out what originally was in this box:

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So I happily pull out all the bits and lay it out on the garage floor, arranging it roughly how it would have been in car. Looks good so far.

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Start checking the connectors out and unconvering the hacked in existing ECU in the FX. The gob of silicone in place of plug is one of the things I want to fix.

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Unfortunately after much searching & wondering, it looks like the new harness is missing this connector also! Curses! Crap, its going to be difficult to find just this connector.

Anyway, I start to uncover the new harness to figure out what I want to use.

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I’m taking my time, pulling connector pins out & slowly getting rid of the bits that I won’t use. I decide I’m not going to use the new fuse box, although its nice. The starter relay and a mystery component & connector that look like its related is also removed. The alternator looks different so those wires come out too. Anyway, here’s how it stands just a little before I called it quits for the night.

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Hopefully I’ll be ready to start installing it soon. I guess I’m going to have to live with the blobby hack for now & replace what I can. I plan to pull indivdual pins and thread the wires through the firewall to keep the wiring intact like OEM, instead of cutting & splicing as much as possible. I’m hoping replacing the hack splicing job in the engine bay will smooth out some of the engine running problems. We shall see!

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