Looking to DIY wire tuck on my ka-t hatch, but before hand, I would like peoples suggestions (those who have done it first-hand) on how much of a pain in the ass it is..... and so forth and so forth. If you can provide pictures, that would be nice of you, and a list of material that would be needed.

Some of you would of course tell me to Google it, which I've already done to no avail. Found more honduh shit than '40's. If you come across web sites w/ useful information, post link on here.

Thanks for your time

 

It's a waste of time.

 

Wait, you want to cut up a bunch of wiring, extend/shorten a bunch of stuff, adding connections to possibly fail, to gain what ?

The visual possible trickery that your electrical system isnt there ?

Youre sure going to know its there when shit goes wrong and you've got a lot bigger headache to fix it, because you screwed with it unnecessarily.

 

Enlighten me kouki

 

Which part of what I already said couldnt you understand, I gave you the long of it, he gave you the short of it.

 

it depends on what exactly you are looking to accomplish with the tuck.
basically, how tucked is tucked?

I will say it is far easier to do with everything out of the car.

I've done some that were as simple as running the harness through the intake manifold. and others that involved tearing the whole harness apart to re-route, lengthen, shorten, re wrap to get the desired results.

personally, I think it is more work than it is worth. But if you are big into the look, then I won't stop ya.
My only advise is to make sure everything is in good shape before you get into the tuck. You don't want to fight the tuck to replace a sensor or something simple like that.

 

i do one or two tucks a month.

can make the bay look clean or be your worst nightmare. have someone who has done this before at least watch over you while your doing it.

worth it if your a diy kind of person, but to say i told you so a head of time, if you mess something up, expect to pay to have to wiring problem fixed

 

relax, just do the tuck

 

that's the best way to do it IMO, having a whole new harness as back up.

you can get a pretty decent little tuck going on using the wires as they are. I think the only thing that you have to extend is the ground wire that usually bolts up just in front of the fuel rail on the intake.
If you cut the plastic off, you can get some slack for the injectors so when you feed the wires up and between the intake runners.
You can pull those two big plugs that usually sit right in front all the way to the back of the manifold.
You can either short cut the maf and coil wiring across the front where the dist. wires go, or run them underneath the intake tube.
It does make things a little bit more of a pain as far as trying to plug and unplug things, but it can be done.
Before you go cutting and all of that, figure out where exactly you want to route things to. The stock harness can be manipulated quite a bit before having to actually lengthen anything.You might get lucky and be able to get the look you want without actually having to cut any of the wires.

 

If you want to tuck the harness you might have to extend the wires to the injectors and intake manifold sensors, you might be able to get away with de-looming it and removing the hard plastic harness guards. I guess if you're into looks it's pleasing to the eyes but functionality wise you're putting the wiring harness where it was never intended to be and risking damaging your car. Exposing the wires to excessive heat, oil, coolant, damage from rubbing against the manifold / engine. There's also a chance that the wires you cut / extend might also come loose or ground out against something. Like someone else said earlier having a spare harness is a good idea. If you can tuck it and get away without a major headache then more power to you, but for the average enthusiast it isn't really something worth doing simply because of all the potential problems it can create.