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Hey guys,

Just wondering if anyone here has had any experience with Painless Wiring harnesses?

http://www.painlessperformance.com/

The more I strip out of my car, the more useless loom is revealed, it's driving me nuts! Seems like a good solution to my wiring nightmare :D

Cheers

Dane

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I have not had any experience with these guys but i am thinking of doing this to my track car.

As i see it i have two options:

- keep the standed looms but remove all un-used wires or

- make a complete new loom out of teflon-coted wires (as i can get this very cheap) which saves about 80% in weight compared to the same amount in normal wire.

I will look into it more once the car is striped completely for the cage and respray.

Cheers

Ross

There just seems to be too many wires to dick around with on the standard loom, with ABS, foglights, dash etc which I have no need for anymore. There is so much wiring in there that it looks cheaper just to start with a pre fabbed loom and modify it to suit.

This one looks like a good option as it's got everything that I need :D

Ill be weighing mine before and after to see the difference which will be interesting.

I am thinking that once i have done mine i will start to sell pre-fab looms that remove all the crap, possible a plug and plag item but that wont be till the end of the year at this stage.

I am happy to help anyone with these looms but for you at this stage i wont be in Victoria for more than a week at a time untill next year.

Cheers

Ross

That's a shame Ross as that'd be great! I really think you'd have a market for some pre-fabbed looms as they're just not available, and people want stupid money for custom ones, if they can be bothered...

A guy in Canada put one in his s14, and had a 23lb weight reduction over the stock loom :P

From memory you are right its about 10kg saving using normal wire.

So for example if a standed loom weight is 25kg, by removing all the crap it will be reduced to 10-15kg but if you make one out of the teflon it would be around 5-8kg.

It has been something i have been thinking about for a while but i am very time poor at the moment because of work so i take ages to do anything.

At this moment i am getting prices on the teflon wire from a company over here, hopefully wont to be too bad as ill buy all thier off-cuts (mind you most 'off-cuts' would be about 10m long).

If i could get my hands on the complete loom i would be able to make something, hang on i know someone who has one *runs to the phone*

This is the kit I got: http://www.painlessperformance.com/webcata...archField=50003

and this is the page you'd want, it's under drag racing: http://www.painlessperformance.com/webcata...assis+Harnesses

Mate you can get a race car harness in australia i;ve just stripped every wire in my R33 track car, next week there;s a electrician who only fit;s out track cars coming over to run a basic loom will only have starter button , fan, brake lights and the wiring around engine which is quick release at the firewall .

Hey mate, what state are you in? And what sort of cost do you think it will be?

phunky monkey i;m in brisbane and ican pass on contact number he will be doing my car next week if you can give me your car details it will speed the process.

George.

sound interesting!

still if i was to do this i'd start from scratch but it would take farken ages!!

My car is not a daily so it does not matter if its sits in the shed apart for a while. So far this year its been drivable for less than a month.

Best way to do the new loom is use your old one, remove all the un used wires then use that as a template for the new loom, that way you have all the correct lengths and you can make it out of the car.

Mate I have to do the same thing.

Im going to get Andrew to draw up a loom and make it from scratch.

You may be better using one of these painless looms man, I think it'll work out cheaper than making it entirely from scratch. Andrew can take a look at this one when it arrives and see if it's suitable. I spoke with Sam on it, and he said it was exactly what I'd be after

I got quoted $3k to make a custom loom from scratch with the factory loom and wiring diagram available as a guide and this is with my car 100% stripped so they wouldn't even have to remove any interior or anything.

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