RE: 16V swap questions

[Brett Van Sprewenburg <brett@netacc.net>]

>You should be able to just splice into you exhisting harness.  much
>easier and less time extensive then doing a full harness swap.  I
>belive there are only 3 wires to splice in on a cis e harness
>hth
>Tony

>>
>>  Have you given any thought as to what you're going to do about the engine
>>management mate-up to your current electrical system?  I'm almost at that
>>point, and I've asked the list before for some help.  I got 2 answers that
>>covered both  my choices:
>>
>>
>>-Choice 1: Figure out how to splice into my current system
>>
>>-Choice 2: Pull the whole harness from the donor 16v, not just the engine
>>harness, and use the 16v fusebox and wiring loom.
>>
>>
>>So, the open question is:  What do I do?


Unfortunately, this is not the case at all.  You see, the fuse box
plugs are 100% incompatible between the early German ceramic style
fuse/relay box and the later model double blade style fuse block.  So
100% of the wires from the 16v engine harness has to be spliced into
the older style wiring plugs, which is not a pretty picture.  The
late model fuse box is better all around, but that means much more of
the car wiring harness has to be pulled out and replaced with parts
from the doner 16v.  See the problem?  Nasty work no matter which
way you go...this has been done dozens of times before, yet no one
seems to have a good answer...very odd.  The reason I'm jumping in
here is because I'm personally going to be quite a lot of work on Jim's
16v convserion to make it go so I have a real interest in finding out
which way is the best/easiest.  Thanks.

==Brett

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