Seen these on ebay recently.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Thinwall-wire-custom-loom-kit-ECU-kitcar-engine_W0QQitemZ8029544951QQcategoryZ72205QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Contains enough wore to make your own loom apparently. If you want to save some money it could be a good way of doing it!

Anyone had any experience of doing their own loom? Only ask as I am try to save money in anyway possible!

David

Edited because my spelling sucks today!

[Edited on 19/1/06 by flak monkey]

Yeah, its bloody hard work if your not leckie minded.

I think research is the key to making or modifing looms, the more info you have the better, and do your own diagram for your car.

Lastly, dont! assemble it in situ. I've learnt the hard way. Its a right bugger to wrap the wires.

Otherwise. Not a problem. Dead easy (will update this reply after the weekend when I test the whole thing for the first time......)

Cheers
Chris

[Edited on 19-101-0606 by flyingkiwi]

i used the siera loom but stripped it down so that i had all the different colours i needed took a while todo though

I'm gonna make my own loom but in 4 stages. Rear loom for lights and possibly fuel pump. Front loom for lights horn cooling fan. Engine loom for whatever I decide and dash loom.

I am fairly electrically minded. Have done plenty of electronic/electrical projects in the past.

I cant see any reason why it would be too difficult to do if done in stages.

That pack of wires any good for making a custom loom? Certainly sounds ok to me...

David

"Lastly, dont! assemble it in situ. I've learnt the hard way. Its a right bugger to wrap the wires."

Could not agree more, measure the various distances then make a two dimensional jig with a board and nails, make the loom around that.

Its the ends that cost, I made a rover EFI loom to suit my megasquirt, the connectors and fuse box etc cost nearly £100 !!!!! aarrgh. Trouble with old looms around engines is that the insulation is very brittle so its had to recover the various plugs and re-use so you need to cost this in also.

Regards Mark

I'd still assemble in situ, BUT wrap the loom with cable ties.
Take it out and wrap properly.

Marcus

You can either use Velcro cable ties as a temporary measure and when you are happy with the finished loom, slide some split plastic corrugated tubing over the top, removing the Velcro ties as you go. Finally put a few turns of black insulating tape in appropriate places to hold the tubing together.

Wire your individual circuits back to the fuse box then take power to them, via relays where necessary. Strip the donor loom to see how they do it and leave plenty of spare, you can always bundle it in and tape it or cut it off. Fasten your terminal to the battery with a small mole grip when testing, it's quicker to release than a bolt and think it through when allocating fuses, 2 for sidelights and headlights so you can still see and be seen.

Hi,I made all my own wiring except for using the original engine loom,suitably chopped and modded at the ecu.

For the front and rear looms I used a high quality German made sheathed 11 and 18 core cable.
No wrapping as it is already protected ,looks neater too.
It just happens that the company I work for uses it on the bodies of our refuse lorries to run the hydraulics and lights etc,and we get offcuts occasionally when doing repairs.

Why mess about wrapping it all up if you can buy sheathed cable cheaply,and for the rear loom I would say use trailer cable(7 core)already wrapped in a nice black weatherproof outer.
I would not bother buying loads of seperate cables it will take too long and you'll probably find it very slow work.

If you look in my archive (electrickery),in the bottom right you can see the multi core cable I mean,this is before I taped the ends and tie wrapped it all up.

[Edited on 20/1/06 by DEAN C.]

Im planning on making the loom for my Indy.

But then I was taught how to make wiring looms to aerospace standards at Uni, so it shouldn't be a problem.

Ed.

Cheers guys.

Will have a go at making my own I think.

Dean: Where did you get your fuse holders from? RS dont do them...

Cheers,
David

I made my own loom from scratch. Took me a weekend and that includes a transponder immobiliser. SVA didn't make any comment about the wiring specifically.

Why bother with a loom use a flexible conduit to adaptable boxes at either end,then trailer cable from the lights into the adaptable boxes,looks neater and the wirings better protected.
Cheers,
Bob

Can get fuseboxs, relay bases etc etc here:
http://www.premierwiring.co.uk/

Flak monkey, as iank says I think premier are as cheap and good as anyone,mine are the same as the extra fuseboxes on commercial vehicles for body feeds.
They came out of a scrap lorry as we quite often chop one for spares.

You will also find plenty of good prices at autojumbles and the kit car shows,definately buy bladed types though as it is harder to get the old fuses now.