The major cost of wiring a car is the tooling it takes to do the job correctly.
A few crimpers of good design are around 75 to 130 each they are not from Napa a
good set of strippers is somewhere around 30 or 40 so I have 250 gone before i
buy the wire. Connectors and heatshrink is somewhere around 30 or 40 for a good
assortment of ones that will last, weatherpack or metri-pack and some brazed
barrel lugs of different sizes.. Wire you need 8 or 10 different colors in
various gauges that is not 'primary wire ' if it is going to last. On the colors
i have some personal rules. Every black wire is a ground, every red wire is
+battery, every orange wire is +5,every brown wire is a sensor return..Other
color wires are for things like switches and to identify a particular circut.
You still should cover the harness somehow and that adds it's own expense. I was
working on the idea that someone owns nothing to wire anything.
We never meet at Bonneville because i am like many others and am focused on what
I am doing and just have this tunnel vision thing going where all i can see is
the next 1 hour from where I am now and what I have to get done before the next
hour arrives. I generally socialize after a car is in impound but that has not
happened lately to my dismay.
Richard Fox wrote:
>
> People; I respect and admire Dave for what he knows and what he does.
> Sometimes I wonder why we have never met at Bonneville. Now I have an idea.
> Dave would run screaming (or laughing) away from my car. I don't do splices
> or taps but 3 of 4 hundred $, not me. I got my wire from home depot. One
> color for each switched unit. I have no fuses, maybe not a good idea. No
> wires pass through the firewall or rear bulkhead. All switches are surplus
> from scrap aircraft test stands. Battery cables are surplus from TV power
> cables pulled in to the GOP convention in SF back in the '70s. Great stuff
> and they couldn't be bothered picking up the 8 and 10 ft. leftovers.
> Yeah it's cheap, and I don't have many things to run, but check it out if
> you get the chance. I like it. Rich
> Oh yeah no butt
> > spices or 'taps' either. If you own any throw them out now they are worse
> than
> > wire nuts.. Let me know if you want the cheap and dirty way of doing
> because if
> > so I won't bother to take the time to write it.. If it costs 3 or 400 to
> wire
> > the car and own the correct crimpers is that a problem??
> >
> > Dave
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