Soucing Wiring For Engine Loom

[pozman]

hi guys,

 

I'm about to start wiring up my engine with stand alone ecu, the ecu i got only came with small amount of loom to work with and i don't want to spend the 330 dollars to get a new full length loom

 

now i obviously need quite a few different wires, so the average 8 solid colours that you get from the local auto store wont be enough

 

any one know where i can buy wires with the second tracer stripe, ie yellow with blue stripe, black with white stripe and so on?

 

paul

[jono1986]

Most places only sells 30m rolls, what I've had to do in the past when we've gotten really low on certain colours is used a felt tip pen to add the tracer. The reason I say this is that electrical places only sells 30m rolls and when you've got all your colours it will end up costing you. So just grab some white wire and some Permanent (Has to be permanent, for obvious reasons) markers, can even get away with buying a yellow roll as well.

 

I read this back and realised that I said the places thing twice but have major cbf factor fixing the grammar, but I do have the energy to write this out.

 

(long day...)

[philbey]

I've done the exact same thing Jono suggested and used a felt tip white/black for the tracers.

 

You can get the small (3m) Narva rolls in the full range of colours with tracer, but nobody ever carries it on the shelf. Your local auto store could likely order them in though.

[pozman]

Yeah I was thinking of the permanent marker. Might be an option.

 

If narva do them I'll be sorted tho. I can get it through work then. I'll have to go in a see what colours they do

 

Thanks for the help guys

[Trev]

What ecu, how many wires and how long do you need, I may be able to get something off a mate fairly cheap.

[pozman]

It's a haltech sprint 500

 

I need about three meters of each of these. Some I will need more

 

Blue

Blue black

Blue brown

Blue red 

Yellow black

Yellow red

Yellow orange

Yellow green

Black yellow

Red white

Black white need like 10m iirc

 

Paul

[turbo ke20]

Easiest option is to buy a roll of yellow (ign outputs) and blue (inj outputs) and get each colour texta for the tracer you need

 

You wont be able to get every colour you need from any auto elec supplier.....ive tried

[Twinky]

Don't go to an auto elec. Go to places like Jaycar or even better go to this website http://au.element14.com/jsp/home/homepage.jsp?CMP=KNC-GOO-GEN-PFB&s_kwcid=TC|15109|farnell||S|b|7753270608

Used to be Farnell for those in the industry. You can choose whatever colour you want, whatever core, materials. PTFE would be awesome but costly. When making your selection you don't have to select all the fields

in the filter search.

[basher_ke20]

other option is to find a newer car loom you can rape (u-pull-it) and try to make your own loom from there

[pozman]

yeah probably going to go the texter option, didnt really want to change the colours but just going to have to deal with it

 

thanks for the help