Dorkenheimer

Looking at purchasing a tucked harness for my h2b project. Wondering what your experience with rywire or chase bays was like?

How was the product installation?
How was customer service during installation if needed?
Would you recommend or buy from them again?
Would you prefer to plug into the chassis harness, or plug straight to ecu like chase does?

I have an h23a....Going to be converted to obd1 from obd2b. Using my existing p28 ecu, I'm looking at buying one of these harnesses. I plan on running rc440's, so will I still need a resistor box?

Trying to make this as smooth as possible!

TracerAcer2.2L

By converting your motor from obd1 to obd2, I don't think it will be as smooth as possible. Any reason for wanting to do this?

Dorkenheimer

Think you read it wrong.

Gonna be converting TO obd1 FROM obd2b.

TracerAcer2.2L

Reading owns me right now.

Now, as far as injectors, it depends on what type of injectors you bought. Are they saturated, or peak and hold? Peak and hold will need the resistor box, so when you get your harness made, be sure to ask them to include the resistor box plug if you have RC440 P&H.

If saturated, don't worry about it, unless the harness for some reason has a resistor box plug.

TracerAcer2.2L

Oh and just look up chasebays reviews. I have never heard good things about that guy. Rywire or Wireworx is the best bet. Wireworx is known for impeccable customer service. I am buying my harnesses from them. They also have some very cool wiring products Rywire doesn't make.
Rywire is more for like all out custom race applications, so of course you know his stuff for more stock cars is great too

Dorkenheimer

Wow, never checked out wire worx. They look awesome! Now I just need to call them and have them walk me through what I need to set up.

TracerAcer2.2L

I just ordered my headlight harness during their black friday sale. We had a little mixup and they handled it graciously. My review of the harness will be on my build thread, although I'm sure it will be great

kingofbattle909

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Did not read OP.
step1. Do your own research
step2. DIY
step3. sell to others
4 profit?.

TracerAcer2.2L

But you should do what you love. If you're like me, and aren't absolutely in love with all things wiring and electrical, then you should just pay for a professional one. I do love intake, exhaust and suspension technology, however, and may be designing some original parts

kingofbattle909

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I love lamp.

TracerAcer2.2L

You've lost me on that one

Sheela96

I have a tucked Rywire harness for an OBD2 B18C1. They set them all up to go into an OBD1 ecu for that model, so if you go with them you definitely want to double check which ECU the harness is set up for. I ended up getting an adapter from them to plug into my OBD2 ecu. Everything plugged in great. I had some trouble at one point and called their customer service number. They were extremely helpful and patient and walked me through the entire process of what I needed to do. The guy I talked to even helped me discover that my ECU was a JDM model (this was my first project so I learned a lot as I went along).

Bottom line, rywire is a little pricey compared to a stock harness, but reasonable for the quality they offer and the level of customer service they provide makes it worth every penny.

joakwin

I used a rywire budget harness and chassis adapter thing they have and I installed it into my 1984 rhd classic mini mayfair powered by a d16z6 vtec engine

I had to change one thing on the chassis adapter harness because of how my fuel pump is set up but other then that, the install was super simple
and even with them being in California and me living in the UK, shipping time was 10days for me to have it in my hands and they had the harness in stock already made

they were very helpful with whatever I asked of them

I would use them again

my rywire D budget harness with ext alt plug and chassis harness

TracerAcer2.2L

I just got an email from Wireworx a couple days ago saying my harness is on it's way. I ordered on black friday, so you know it's the busiest time of year. They say on their website to wait 3 or 4 weeks i think for delivery, so I wasn't expecting it til the end of december. They must be working their butts off if I'm getting my harness so soon

ricb20vtec22

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I ordered a harness from chase bays last year. when I ordered it, they told me about 3 -4 weeks.. 2 months went by & nothing so I e-mailed them & they said " some connectors were on back-ordered " so 2 more months went by again & I finally got my harness put it in, car won't start & had no spark. Luckily I am tech for Honda so I pulled up an ETM & found they wired the distributor coil backwards... Simple mistake that a company that big should not be making this far in the game... I don't think I should have had to hunt them down when my harness was late, I feel they should have contacted me.. needless to say, I will NEVER buy from them again. Rywire / Wireworx is the way to go.

TypeRfit

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Bought a K series Rywire harness on a Wednesday, had the harness Saturday. Everything fit exactly as it should, worked exactly as it should. Communication with them was excellent from start to finish.

Dorkenheimer

Thanks for the feedback guys.

I emailed Wireworx about exactly what my setup was and what I needed, along with some other questions I had. That was probably over a week and a half ago, so so far we're not off to a great start with them. But I really liked how simple they made the ordering process with all the options to pick from. I'm going to be running an RBC intake manifold with the IAT mounted on the drivers side of the manifold. So, I might need a little extra length on those wires to connect them. Little stuff like that has me hesitant about jumping into an order.

I REALLY don't want to hack into such an expensive harness either.

TracerAcer2.2L

Email is NOT the way to go when ordering a custom harness IMO. Calling them and actually talking to them about it and hearing their feedback, that will be much more reassuring than just sending an email and hoping for the best. That goes for any custom item one might need made.

1.5-2 weeks is not a bad wait time for a custom harness at all. I think they shipped mine within like two weeks. Black friday just hit, their probably finishing up a ton of orders from that. Why don't you just call them tomorrow and see where your order progress is at?