how to hide wires in engine bay?

IndyBlk5.0

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I want to do some cleaning up while my motor is out of my car, what are some good ways to hide the wires for a noob like me????

 

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I'll be watching this thread. I find that the cars that have the wiring hidden just look DAMN GOOD.

 

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and yes, i did a search, but everyone went crazy with it, and i dont want to hide everything, just clean it up...

 

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I recently hid mien and it was a chore. It takes time and patients. Basically how I went about it was to unplug everything and reroute the wires where I wanted them. I then saw what would fit where, and what needed to be extended or moved. I recently started to reassemble after months of down time, and I still have to move some things, and relocate others. Its a true ongoing project for me, but there are other reasons for that! The most important thing I would suggest, is to take your time and mark everything, makes life a lot easier in the end!

Here are some pics. The car is unfinished, but when its done it should be extremely clean under the hood!

 

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All you have to do to hide the wires on the side is disconnect the harnesses and lengthen the wires. Just keep track of all the wires and solder them. I did this on my passenger side. I ran the mass air wires through the fender and out a little hole to the sensor. As for that nasty starter solenoid..... I'm in the process of deleting it altogether by using this distribution block:

 

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All you have to do to hide the wires on the side is disconnect the harnesses and lengthen the wires. Just keep track of all the wires and solder them. I did this on my passenger side. I ran the mass air wires through the fender and out a little hole to the sensor. As for that nasty starter solenoid..... I'm in the process of deleting it altogether. By using this distribution block

 

IndyBlk5.0

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what kind of paint did you use for your engine bay? i just got done putting on a coat of flat black paint, but i want hi gloss

 

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Unplug harnesses, route the backs of them through the back of the strut towers, route the fronts of them through the headlight area, attach in the middle behind the strut towers, and re-loom and retape them. All done.

I lengthened no wires on mine and hide everything.
Solenoid is on the other side, battery cables are moved, coil is moved and so on. Here's a pic i took the other day for someone else, shows the filled in holes, coil area, etc.:

 

88stangmangt

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mansonozz- so the simple unplug and you just pull them out the other side of the engine bay and bring them out by the head light? did i get that right? wont some of them be too short then?

 

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IndyBlk5.0 said:

what kind of paint did you use for your engine bay? i just got done putting on a coat of flat black paint, but i want hi gloss

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Satin is the best looking for under the hood. Not as glossy as gloss black, not as flat as flat. Gloss black is going to show every imperfection. The shinyest I would go is semi-gloss.

 

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Stangman: Nope. When you take the harness plugs apart, you will end up with a "front" part of it and a "rear" part. Plug them together and you have one entire piece.

What to do: Unplug them to split them into the "front" and the "back" parts. Push the back parts through the rear holes in the strut tower. Take the front part and stick them through the headlight opening area, then route them into the wheel well to meet up with the back parts. Plug them back together to make them whole, and ta-da.

 

IndyBlk5.0

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semi gloss it is then... i got a wild hair, and once i start working, something is taking a drastic change lol