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Extending bike loom or not?
Pdlewis - 18/4/08 at 08:29 PM

Right...

I have been thinking about the loom for my car. Initially i thought it was a no brainer just extend the bike loom (R1 2003) as it already does everything i need.

But after reading through many posts I see people have reservations about extending the bike loom mainly the fact a car loom would usually spread the load for items such as lights accross multiple fuses.

So my current thoughts are:

Make up 3 sub looms (wires and sensors only) 1 for the engine, 1 for the rear of the car e.g. lights, fuel pump, handbrake switch and 1 loom for the front lights, pressure switch, fluid switch terminating all of these in multi plugs.

Once the 3 looms are in place the engine one can be pluged to the bike ECU then I would need to design the fuse/relay arrangement to power the lot and fill the SVA requirments.

I guess my question is does this seem like a good idea (i like the modular approach)?

Does anyone have any suggestions for the Fuse/relay setup? I think this is just for the lights and light feeds as the engine loom should be good on the original fuses

Cheers

Paul


bigrich - 18/4/08 at 09:17 PM

On both my cars all i hae done is extend the standard bike loom, and add in a fog lamp and hazzard circuit, dont see the point of extra looms or fuses etc. if the bikes ok on the alloted number of fuses then so will the car. AIMHO but each to thier own

Rich


twybrow - 18/4/08 at 10:00 PM

I used the bike loom, and just split the lights between 2 fuses, and added a hazard circuit. No signs of smoke yet!


LBMEFM - 19/4/08 at 05:03 AM

I bought a loom, found the fitting instructions impossible to understand. Sold it and used and extended the bike loom, very simple as the engine wiring and dashboard looms are already made. The entensions for the rear lights etc I made with a multi-core cable normally used for trailers, nice and neat.
Barry


worX - 19/4/08 at 05:19 AM

Just use the bike loom as has been suggested.

If you want to "get your hands dirty" in a wiring sense then cut the wires at any point they are too long and join them back up again.

Steve