What a lovely sight, a nice new engine bay loom......gulp. Thank God Jimmer has fitted one before. Hopefully this will help to alleviate some of my problems that I am currently experiencing due to so much kit being spliced into my current engine bay loom. There is so much that the floor board over the ECU will not screw down, it is a right mess and most of the kit has now been disconnect from any power source. Back to square one I hope.

Jimmer will be having some fun with that then. I dont envy him :)

 

Going to buy new loom for mine too, wish I had done it when I had engine out though.

Its not a bad job to fit Dave with the engine in, the worse bit is getting the ECU connector through the firewall into the passenger footwell. He has done one before so is now an expert.:)

What a lovely sight, a nice new engine bay loom......gulp. Thank God Jimmer has fitted one before. Hopefully this will help to alleviate some of my problems that I am currently experiencing due to so much kit being spliced into my current engine bay loom. There is so much that the floor board over the ECU will not screw down, it is a right mess and most of the kit has now been disconnect from any power source. Back to square one I hope.

:(:headvswal here we go again.

how much???

how much???

 

$327 plus $78 shipping, also got skinned £44 for import tax.

kin ell, thats a lot of cash

Its not a bad job to fit Dave with the engine in, the worse bit is getting the ECU connector through the firewall into the passenger footwell. He has done one before so is now an expert.:)

 

I've only ever fitted them with the engine out. Mind due I think with my Aircon removed it should give me more room to get the connector through.

 

The biggest pain is moving the Airbox and gubbins out of the way in the footwell.

:(:headvswal here we go again.

 

You told me it would only take an hour to fit, I'll make the tea.:dance:

kin ell, thats a lot of cash

 

Apparently you can no longer get them in this country so its only the States that really we can use. It a shame the pound / dollar has gone rats on us now. I wonder how much they would cost from Japan.? Anyone know.

I'd love one of those. :)

I bought one in July when the exchange rate was very favorable and had it fitted, cured so many problems that I was having :) The old loom was falling apart in my hand. (Didn't get stung with import duties either)

Having seen tired looms, I am guessing it's the pastic and joints around the connectors which is what tends to fail. I think the wires themselves are reasonbly well sheilded. But the connectors break up like rich-tea buscuits and and their joints tend to fray and work their way loose.

I think the wires in the main bit of the loom stay OK but where they go into connectors and then get exposed, that is where with all that heat they deteriate, go brittle and fail. Also as Si has said, the actual connectors go like biscuits and shatter. My injector connectors are now particullarly bad as they have been taken apart so many times. But my problems have been the cack handed work of some Jap engine tuner that has thought that a roll of insulating tape is just the job for splicing in several new looms which ran an additional ECU, a AVC-D and an SAFC. They run around the engine bay but all culminate back at the ECU in the passenger footwell. I have had a waterleak on that side since owning the car and only recently found the cause.(thanks to Jimmer). That same crappy Jappy had pushed the AC drain pipe and grommet out of the bulkhead and back inside the car, and used the hole for two of the looms.there was no grommet around the looms so they just rested on the raw hole and of course the water / condensation drain from the AC unit has been draining into the footwell, hence the very wet carpet. That has now been rectified by the removal of about 10 metres of loom, and there is still more to come out but it is spliced directly into the ECU connector, which I did not want to mess with, especially as I had ordered this new engine loom. I can now rip the whole f#####g lot out, fit the new loom and know that it is all back to standard with no problems,......... hopefully.

Edited November 28, 200817 yr by Old Zed

Its not just the connectors but the wires within the loom themselves that go brittle and fail also. Quite often with running problems grabbing the main loom near the battery or at the back of the plenum before the coilpack and injector loom splits off and giving it a wiggle causes the engine to find or drop cylinders.

especially if the engine has been tinkered with alot or been in and out... the wires get twisted back and forth for access/removal which causes work hardening of the core, they go brittle and can go open circuit within the insulation!

 

wouldnt mind getting one of these old girls myself... do they come with all the cruise control wiring too?

especially if the engine has been tinkered with alot or been in and out... the wires get twisted back and forth for access/removal which causes work hardening of the core, they go brittle and can go open circuit within the insulation!

 

wouldnt mind getting one of these old girls myself... do they come with all the cruise control wiring too?

 

I don't think so Joel, it is purely the ignition system I think and the various sensors that are related to it.