I think the main reason for the 2 plugs was to keep the possiblity of any interferance bewteen the 2 signals. Putting the shielded wires in the same connector places them closer than might be wanted,considering the distance of most connectors at the terminal ends is not very far and there is no shielding at the very end where it connects to the terminal. All you would have to do is put them next to each other and you have trouble brewing. Plus if the guy putting the harness together has 2 plugs he has less of a chance to get them in the wrong holes. I know they had problems with that with 2 plugs !!!!
The way the harness was built to begin with had a lot to be desired. i actually pulled the loom apart and pulled back all of the nitrous and other stuff that went to the engine bay and came back in for no other reason than to make it easy if you put the ecu in thengine bay or had a front mount battery. I have half the amount of wires going thru my fire wall and only one hole instead of the two grommets they provided. I pulled all of the connectors thru and connected up what was needed and then pulled the excess back into the car. This made it really tidy under the hood.
Now I have to find room for more with the new wideband but it to is going inside the car to keep most of the wires out of the engine bay.
I just wish they would stop putting the connectors on the ends so you wouldn't have to frill as big of a hole and a small grommet would suffice. I will probably pull them out of the connector and do it that way anyway. The other thing that was messed up on my gen7 harness was that the wires for the cam and crank + - wires were in backwards to start with.
When I am done it looks nice but it is a lot of work. The tuner that cam to help me the first time couldn't believe how much better it looked and was confused when I was disconnecting the the EST wire from inside and that it never went thru the firewall. It goes right straight to the 6A box to the ecu inside and I have a bullet connector right at the fuse panel labeled and easy to get to.
Last edited by Jim Nilsen; 02-14-2010 at 10:18 AM.
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