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Old May 13, 2010 | 06:00 PM
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Has anyone used a truck harness with a car intake on their build? I am using one and the way it lays out on my engine looks awful. Is there a way to make it look good? If so does anyone have any pics?
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Old May 13, 2010 | 06:03 PM
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What are you doing about the injector plugs???
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Old May 13, 2010 | 06:07 PM
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I already bought car style pigtails and soldiered them on the harness. The engine runs with the harness. I just wish I could get it to look better using the truck harness.
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Old May 13, 2010 | 06:51 PM
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At bare minimum, the INJ connectors need to be swapped. To do it right, you need to go deeper

This started as a hacked up truck harness



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Old May 13, 2010 | 08:30 PM
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At bare minimum, the INJ connectors need to be swapped. To do it right, you need to go deeper

This started as a hacked up truck harness
Does it run right yet?
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Old May 13, 2010 | 09:24 PM
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I generally retain the truck PCM location mounted behind the drivers headlight. Mount relays and fuses next to the PCM. Then re-reroute the Crank Position Sensor wires and pass O2 to go over the engine on the drvr intake side of the engine and shorten the O2 sensor wires. I have one trunk from the PCM to the DRVR intake side (inj, coil, TPS, IAC ECT, etc) and then down to the trans. At the rear of the intake, I add the OBD2 port and CEL (extended wires) to the engine compartment. From the rear of the intake, I have the passenger injector/coil power going back toward the front of the pass side intake . Makes for a pretty clean install.
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Old May 14, 2010 | 12:53 AM
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I mounted my PCM on the inside on the firewall, so all of the wires feed back to it. For now I just have it wired up so it runs, and haven't really "cleaned up the wiring yet. I have a small fuse block mounted on the radiator core support, and those wires run in between the inner and outer fenders, then through the firewall also.

When I get it all cleaned up, the wiring should be pretty hidden.
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Old May 14, 2010 | 02:56 AM
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Right now this is how it looks. I had to change from the truck brackets to ones from kwik performance so this picture isnt the most current but the best I have for now.
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Originally Posted by bronx_peanut
I already bought car style pigtails and soldiered them on the harness. The engine runs with the harness. I just wish I could get it to look better using the truck harness.
Where did you buy the car style pigtails if you dont mind me asking?
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I found mine in a yard from a 3800 V6 car. I just cut them off and added them (solder / heat shrink tubing) to my harness.

I used a truck harness on my car but it took a lot of work to make it lay out decent. I have it at a point where I will open the hood and show people but it still isn't "factory" looking just yet.
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