wiring

[64dartsb]

Ok so now that I'm racing my car I have a lot more accessories  like tach, two fuel pumps, msd, electric fan, nitrous relay .     anyways everything needs stuff like switched 12v or constant 12v.   I was wondering if you guys had any good Idea's on how to keep all that stuff clean because under my dash looks like shit.......   There's just wires everywhere for all the switches.  Right now I just have a thick red wire from the positive running up under the dash going to a wiring block so I could Tee off like 6 or 7 constant 12v sources then I just ran those to three wire switches for everything and made a switch panel on the dash.

What do you guys do?  What are all the tricks?  Got any pictures of some clean wiring that your proud of?

thanks     

-matt

[68S]

I do not have any wiring tricks for keeping things neat, my car is a hideous mess right now, but you should run relays for your fuel pump and electric fan to keep the load off the switches if you do not already have them. By running relays you might even get a little more voltage to those components.

Pat

[NYrr496]

Check out Painless Wiring's catalog. They have relay kits and add on block kits that are real compact and neat.
Maybe try making a centrally mounted fuse- relay center behind your shifter in a sort of console. I worked in an offshore speed boat shop years ago. We used to have to keep bundles consistant for the entire length and use Adel clamps and zip ties like they were free. It went Adel clamp, zip tie, zip tie, Adel clamp every frikkin' inch. That wiring NEVER failed.

[west]

start at the fuse block run ALL the wires before tying them down and leave an extra foot of wire at the ends before the final cuts are made,you can always trim it twice but coming up short sucks.

[urchinhead]

  If you buy wire lengths and do it yourself, just make sure you leave a few extra feet before you finish the rough connections, and make sure to leave the final lengths a few inches longer than absolutely neccessary, or you'll get into trouble.

[Ace]

Zip ties, wire looms, and soldering are your friends.  Nothing looks worse than wiring not cleaned up.  Take your time, loom it, or zip tie it, and if you can solder vs. using butt connectors go that route with shrink wrap around the joints.  Worth you time in the end.

[NYrr496]

Zip ties, wire looms, and soldering are your friends.  Nothing looks worse than wiring not cleaned up.  Take your time, loom it, or zip tie it, and if you can solder vs. using butt connectors go that route with shrink wrap around the joints.  Worth you time in the end.

Yeah. I built an EFI car for a friend. I spent about 40 hours soldering GM Weatherpacks to everything. Six years later, not one single electrical problem.