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Old 04-23-2013, 08:05 AM
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cool, i'll give that a try. Thanks!
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Originally Posted by JcoDC5
There are some great tucks here. I might do this if I keep my DC5... I have a local florida shop quoting $1200-$1500 for full tuck nothing left. Does that sound high?

and no i could never do it myself, wires are my kryptonite
florida you must be talking about wire-worx right? i think they are florida based. correct me if in wrong. all the harnesses ive made were no where near that price
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can you guys recommend me a shop in cali that does wire tucks/shaved bays? i live in denver but i dont trust anyone here. doesnt matter socal or bay area.
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Originally Posted by ImportHookUps
can you guys recommend me a shop in cali that does wire tucks/shaved bays? i live in denver but i dont trust anyone here. doesnt matter socal or bay area.

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Old 04-25-2013, 11:23 AM
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Originally Posted by ImportHookUps
can you guys recommend me a shop in cali that does wire tucks/shaved bays? i live in denver but i dont trust anyone here. doesnt matter socal or bay area.
you would take your car to California just to get the bay shaved and tucked? lol jesus.
why don't you tuck it yourself, have a body shop do the shaving and painting.
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My mugen out db8.
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heres mine from ireland

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Old 04-29-2013, 07:24 AM
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that lips always look so good from that angle.
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Hey guys. Question. From reading the front page, from my understanding, you can just cut this line that goes to the canister towards the back of the car, and run some kind of rubber hose to let the fumes out. Am I understading this right? I just want to make sure.

Aother thing is I have a stock 00 SI, and my engine harness comes out from under the fuse box. Can I possibly drill a whole towards the middle of my fire wall and run my harness throught there without having to extend it at all? Here is a picture of the canister.
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Most recent shot of how my engine bay looks as of a few days ago. Just put the half size radiator in for the turbo setup I've got in the works
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Originally Posted by Tony M.
Hey guys. Question. From reading the front page, from my understanding, you can just cut this line that goes to the canister towards the back of the car, and run some kind of rubber hose to let the fumes out. Am I understading this right? I just want to make sure.

Aother thing is I have a stock 00 SI, and my engine harness comes out from under the fuse box. Can I possibly drill a whole towards the middle of my fire wall and run my harness throught there without having to extend it at all? Here is a picture of the canister.
You can ditch the canister no problem, although if you're running stock obd2b ecu I wonder if it'll make you throw a code. Moving the harness is what's typical, worse case you might have to move the ecu but no biggie
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Some customers and friends bays from IA Spring Meet. Photo cred goes to Dipesh Gohil of The Chronicles.

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Ok maybe an old question but I searched and got nowhere with varying answers

Chassis is a 97 civic ex coupe which means I still have to be able to pull readiness checks for emissions

So I have my obd2a harness and I'm trying to determine just what plugs I can eliminate from the harness without compromising the obd readiness check test/throwing a random CEL

Opinions/advice? Im also trying to figure out how to cleanly route the grey firewall plug back to where to ecu plugs are, namley how to remove the two dead end plugs and have a clean solder joint for those two plugs, where i can heatshrink them and have the whole engine harness come back to one point so i can get my amphenol connectors wired in

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Preferably where the harness goes from amphenol connector to motor, no return loop
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Originally Posted by happyabortion
You can ditch the canister no problem, although if you're running stock obd2b ecu I wonder if it'll make you throw a code. Moving the harness is what's typical, worse case you might have to move the ecu but no biggie
Thanks for the reply man.
I did read that removing the canister will throw a CEL, but that's no problem because I'm getting an OBD1 ECU. I read that getting the OBD1 ECU will take care of the CEL. As far as the harness goes, if my moving my ECU is what is going to help me not rearing into my harness so be it LOL. I would rather do that than to have to hack into my stock engine harness.

Any other advice you can give to me? This is my first tuck, so I want it to be as smooth as possible
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You really should still pull it apart and re-wrap it though. It's set up to come off the right side of the motor, you're really going to have a hard time getting it through the middle without changing up the routing. Also you need to figure out the driver's side portion, easiest just to integrate it into the rest of the harness. If you leave it as is, you'll have to fold it back over the harness or something to make it work.
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^^ moree
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im sure its possible but has anyone shaved/tucked their bay while retaining a/c?
im curious as to how this would look
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Contact all in fab it's about $1500. Good luck
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just curious about pics
not really planning on doing anything like that soon
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Contact all in fab it's about $1500. Good luck
Is he still doing business? No FB in a very long time and the website has been under construction forever!!
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Yes he is still doing buisness but if you want his work you have to wait for it. Quality takes time.
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finished my car today
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