Drift car wiring questions

[JMPAuto]

[quote=CrisMac;4037908]How did this work for you? fairly simple? My main question would be about the engine harness, did you just chop the C101 off, and wire straight into a switch panel/fuse and relay box?

It's not that hard as long as you know wiring pretty good. If you have never wired a car before then I would not suggest doing this. You could burn your car wiring it wrong especially starting from scratch.

Familiarized yourself with the e30 and s52 wiring diagram and go from there. Do some research online on how race cars get wired and you'll get the idea.

[nando]

I would like to wire the engine harness straight into a fuze relay board, rather then sending my harness out to get modified to connect to the stock fuze box.

what's a fuze?

you're going to spend hundreds of dollars and hours and hours of time so you can avoid spending ~$200 on re-pinning your harness to plug into the body? huh?

[FLG]

Agree with the above statements.

To add my own, why bother do all this work?

Dont get me wrong ive thought about this on my car, its rarely street driven other then driving to and from events, but then i just say..whats the point? I understand shaving weight on a track car is critical because every second counts, i just dont see the benefit as much on a drift car. Granted there is a balance of course, and being light does help...but i cant see it being AS much of an impact on things.

Assuming your car is working fine as is with no electrical issues, why bother with the hours of work and money this is gonna take only to eliminate some of the non essential wiring, the question for me is, in the end how will it positively impact your driving?

Im not knocking anything and i think if i had the extra time and spare cash id probably do this myself. But i feel if you can take this time and money and put it towards something more beneficial, i would go that route. If everything else is kosher and this is just an add on, then more power to ya.

[henryki]

I would keep the power steering, just saying. I've driven with it and without it, having it definitely makes transitions and steering input a lot easier!

+1

I have no power steering on my daily (pump was bad and dgaf'd it and just pulled it out because the S.O.B. was leaking everywhere) and trying to dick around in that and put it sideways can be difficult and doesn't look nearly as smooth as it could if I had power steering. my

[Texas Toast]

I would keep the power steering, just saying. I've driven with it and without it, having it definitely makes transitions and steering input a lot easier!

[CrisMac]

I run this setup on my e30 s52 obd2 swap race car. I removed the entire factory chassis wiring harness and rewired the whole car. I only wired whatever is need to get the car running. I'm also running Epic obd2 race tune.

How did this work for you? fairly simple? My main question would be about the engine harness, did you just chop the C101 off, and wire straight into a switch panel/fuse and relay box?

just FYI i'm pretty sure there are 0 wires related to PS. so just yank the hardware and call it good

Ya sorry I was just ranting on what I'm doing haha

[mitchlikesbikes]

just FYI i'm pretty sure there are 0 wires related to PS. so just yank the hardware and call it good

[JMPAuto]

I run this setup on my e30 s52 obd2 swap race car. I removed the entire factory chassis wiring harness and rewired the whole car. I only wired whatever is need to get the car running. I'm also running Epic obd2 race tune.

[CrisMac]

Ok guys I have a few questions about wiring my OBDII S52 drift car.

My goal is to:

Delete the fuze box inside of the engine bay.
Delete ABS.
Delete Power Steering.
Delete Brake Booster.
Delete Gauge Cluster.

Pretty much delete anything that is not really needed.

I will be running the bare minimum and wiring in my own gauges

-Tach.
-Water temp.
-Oil Pressure.
-Voltage.

Is this possible with one of these?

I would like to wire the engine harness straight into a fuze relay board, rather then sending my harness out to get modified to connect to the stock fuze box.

ARC Flat Touch Switch Panels 8000R


I will be assigning each switch as follows

-Iginition
-Starter
-Headlights
-Aux Fan
-Windshield wipers
-?
-?
-?

Cant think of anything else at the moment. Some input on what should go on the switches from someone who has wired something similar would be awesome.


The main goal is to delete the fuze box under the hood and relocate an aftermarket setup inside of the vehicle while keeping the bare minimums for the car to run.

I love criticism, so don't hold back. got to learn from experiences.

thanks gents!