wiring harness removal and center tunnel

rattlsnak · rattlsnak's Garage

We are completely gutting a turbo to have the body powder coated and have all the harnesses out except the part where the main harness goes through the tunnel. Ive studied it from both ends and see no way of removing it in such a way without cutting it whereas it has to go back in when the body is done. Has anybody done this? and how? I think i saw where someone has cut the tunnel open, but cant find the thread. I can see fishing a wire or two through there but no way this big ass harness is going to fit back through there.
Anyone?

TRE Cup · TRE Cup's Garage

do your plans including cutting out the back seat area to put aluminum paneling? if so, this will help with getting that harness free over the torsion tube.
The other problem is all the connectors on the end of the harness: You have to remove the plastic covers off each one (make diagrams!) , put shrink wrap over each bunch of connectors, and then feed the wire sections through the various orifices in the chassis playing push-pull
A pain in the A$$ to be sure, but doable

gestalt1 · 04-05-2007, 02:15 PM

i cut mine and am now running new wire. i could not see how it could be removed any other way. i'm actually using an 18 circuit painless wiring kit for the whole car and just using the turn signal, wiper, ignition and headlight switch from the original car. i am however building a street legal race car so many circuits i don't need.

rattlsnak · rattlsnak's Garage

Dave, yes we are cutting the seat pans out, and I thought about doing it the way you described but was hoping there had to be another way.

Gestalt, where did you get your kit from? Thats basically the same thing we are doing and we certainly dont need rear window defogger, etc..

gestalt1 · 04-05-2007, 07:19 PM

the painless wiring kit is available through many hot rod type catalogs, like summit racing. i'm in the process now so i don't know yet how painless the install will be yet. i did have to re-route most the wires because it is set up for front engine, rear gas tank etc... here is a link to the web site:
http://www.painlesswiring.com/