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Companies who can wire a BEC?
Dangle_kt - 1/9/09 at 09:49 PM

Right, following on from my horrorbox of a trip to SVA I have dug into my wiring loom enough to find the true cause of the problem.

All I'll say is it needs a full new loom.

I don't know the first thing about wiring a car so couldn't even consider doing it myself. I'm only willing to take the car to a real wiring specialist - and its a fireblade, so a BEC specialist too.

SVA deadline is late OCT, but I need a good few weeks to sort possible emissions and noise problems too so I need it sorting fast. I have a trailer and can deliver it nationwide.

I'm going to call round a few places tomorrow that I know of, however can everyone who has used the services of anyone to get BEC wiring done please post up the details so I can include them in the ring round please?

Thanks.

big-vee-twin - 1/9/09 at 10:05 PM

Try MNR in Harrogate they specialise in BEC's they also do car to bike engine conversions so should be worth a punt

coozer - 1/9/09 at 10:09 PM

Well Mr. Dangle some of us are excellent at some things and crap at others,,, to me wiring is a piece of cake and bodywork is the trappings of the devil.

I tend to think of plumbing and wiring the same, live and earths, hot and cold. May not make any sense to you but perfectly logic to me. No leaks...

Are you using the Sierra loom with the bike one spliced in or one of these rubbish after market looms??

I would love to offer you my time if you weren't so FAR AWAY! and I had the room...

Good luck,
Steve

Oops, as above MNR will do it for you.

[Edited on 1/9/09 by coozer]

Dangle_kt - 1/9/09 at 10:20 PM

quote:
Originally posted by coozer
Well Mr. Dangle some of us are excellent at some things and crap at others,,, to me wiring is a piece of cake and bodywork is the trappings of the devil.

I tend to think of plumbing and wiring the same, live and earths, hot and cold. May not make any sense to you but perfectly logic to me. No leaks...

Are you using the Sierra loom with the bike one spliced in or one of these rubbish after market looms??

I would love to offer you my time if you weren't so FAR AWAY! and I had the room...

Good luck,
Steve


Tonight, after the day I've had - elecTrickery (as it is known in this house) is the work of the devil.

Thanks for the words of encouragement, but I really don;t have a clue! I think it is a standard bike loom, extended to the lights and other extremities.

Today, when it completely died I was lucky (very lucky) to get it to the hard shoulder with no power, or indicators or brake lights without being wholloped (junction of m62 east onto m60 north, if you know it, you will know what I mean)- I want to be able to forget about the wiring and not have any nagging doubts and don;t mind paying for peace of mind.

coozer - 1/9/09 at 10:32 PM

yeah i know it, mass confusion and lane swapping at that junction.

Right then, standard bike loom extended is probably not butch enough for the car.. wires are a bit thin on bike looms, too much load.

A stripped down Sierra loom with the bike engine bit patched in is a lot more robust. Dead easy...

These are just my opinions based on what I think of as OEM is best before the Spitfire swoops in and gives me a burst of cannon.

[Edited on 1/9/09 by coozer]

james h - 1/9/09 at 11:01 PM

quote:
Originally posted by big-vee-twin
Try MNR in Harrogate they specialise in BEC's they also do car to bike engine conversions so should be worth a punt


My car was wired by MNR. I should stress this was probably a one off, but their autoelectrician managed to wrongly colour code the battery leads, leading to some nasty burnt wiring

Also the loom that was put in is from a 4xv whereas the engine and clocks are from a 5JJ engine. My 5JJ thermo unit won't work with the sender wires. I have an error code (tacho bounce) on the clocks unless I short out the sender wires which is odd. Hopefully when I get around to fitting a 4xv sender that will solve the issue.

Like I say, it was probably a one-off (I haven't heard any other similar reports) and the autoelectrician came to my house to sort the leads out. I don't want to dissuade people from MNR as they do produce some superb cars!

Andy W - 2/9/09 at 05:47 AM

Bike looms will normally be fine. Most of the bikes these engines came from run twin headlights, twin rears, fan, horn etc

Andy

Jubal - 2/9/09 at 06:47 AM

Chris Mason has been quiet on the forum lately but he did my old car, extending the bike loom.

afj - 2/9/09 at 07:11 AM

2 more votes for chris mason from me and eddbaz, wired both our becs and weve had no problems, but he does not seem to post anymore

Dangle_kt - 2/9/09 at 07:49 AM

Thanks, keep them coming. I've u2u'd chris, hopefully hear from him soon. Thanks for the u2us with offers. I'll check thm properly when I get home. It's hard to read them and stuff on my phone.