24v Swap wiring adapter questions

[lolcantturn]

The same middle aged guy changes the oil on all my cars. No child is allowed to touch it.

I'd rather keep oil off my skin - I'm happy to pay for oil changes

I'm calculated that for the price of an oil change including oil (Around ~$30 here, usually less), I'd rather just pay someone to do it.

Granted, I've always smashed an oil pan or gone through a motor swap before I've ever actually needed to change my oil hehe.

[nrubenstein]

With that mentality you may as well take your car to a mechanic to get your oil changed, or go to the dentist to have them brush your teeth. The whole point of having an e30 is to get your hands dirty and learn something :pimp:

Right, because the fact that I would prefer to be able to easily understand how my harness is wired at any given point, rather than re-pinning it to something non-standard means that I don't like to do work on cars. I've only done three engine swaps, a shit ton more engine replacements and other work, repainted a car, built a couple race cars, and, you know, a few other things that aren't on this list. (I'll grant you the hands dirty part - I buy nitrile gloves by the thousands.)

At best, re-pinning a harness leaves you with a harness that only you can understand easily. The nice thing about adapters is that it will always be easy to figure out what wire does what, and an adapted harness is much less likely to have had someone "thin out" the wires he didn't think were necessary. This is my frustration with my current S50B32 harness - i have not only been forced to check every single wire color against the ETM diagrams, but I've also been forced to find wires that were cut back and replace them. If the PO had just made an adapter, I wouldn't have to deal with this crap. Instead, he got creative and the harness will never be the same.

[Wanganstyle]

'Professionally changed' by a 16 year old kid who works at his uncle's shop and got a b- in grand 9 auto class.

The same middle aged guy changes the oil on all my cars. No child is allowed to touch it.

I'd rather keep oil off my skin - I'm happy to pay for oil changes

[frankie591]

I hate oil. Always have it professionally changed, don't care if I built the motor or not.

'Professionally changed' by a 16 year old kid who works at his uncle's shop and got a b- in grand 9 auto class.

[MaksV]

Had an adapter. Went to a converted harness. Much cleaner.

[Wanganstyle]

With that mentality you may as well take your car to a mechanic to get your oil changed, or go to the dentist to have them brush your teeth. The whole point of having an e30 is to get your hands dirty and learn something :pimp:

I hate oil. Always have it professionally changed, don't care if I built the motor or not.

[frankie591]

Because adapters are better, IMHO. Adapters mean that harnesses are interchangeable. They also mean that you don't have to deal with what some other person has done to the engine harness - they confine the changes to an easily removed/replaced component as well.

For me, an adapter is VASTLY preferable. To the point where I may replace the harness on my S50B32 because I don't really like what was done to it by the PO.

With that mentality you may as well take your car to a mechanic to get your oil changed, or go to the dentist to have them brush your teeth. The whole point of having an e30 is to get your hands dirty and learn something :pimp:

[eurosport22]

as long as you know your getting a good and properly done adapter

[nrubenstein]

Why make an adapter? ;)

Because adapters are better, IMHO. Adapters mean that harnesses are interchangeable. They also mean that you don't have to deal with what some other person has done to the engine harness - they confine the changes to an easily removed/replaced component as well.

For me, an adapter is VASTLY preferable. To the point where I may replace the harness on my S50B32 because I don't really like what was done to it by the PO.

[Roysneon]

Ok, call me an idiot if this is really stupid but....

Couldn't you just trace the wires off of the old and new engines and match things up that way?

[hogdacb750]

why not just buy the adapter a few people make them save time and headache .

[Wanganstyle]

I'm in the process of sourcing parts for a 93 m50b26tu swap into a 85 6cyl chassis. And I want to avoid splicing wires and cutting any of my harness if possible, so from what I've seen I would need to make a wiring harness adapter that would play the middleman role between the engine harness and the chassis harness.

hard wire it by cutting plug and adapting one side , if you cannot get it perfect the first time don't try. send it out to be done for you professionally

adapter = GARBAGE.

[325issguy]

+1 on cutting on the harness and splicing in the correct connector. Do it properly the first time.

[GunMetalGrey]

^ wish I would have done that. I probably still will.

[frankie591]

Why not just cut the x20 off your engine harness and replace it with c101? Adapters are big and bulky.