Re: fuse box upgrade

[Huw Powell <human@nh.ultranet.com>]

> >From a BTDT perspective, the only times I would recommend doing a wiring swap
> are:
> 1)  The existing harness is damaged too badly to reliably repair.
> 2)  You are doing a engine AND dash swap.

exactly

> 
> IMHO, if you are changing harnesses just for the sake of having the "newer,
> better" harness you are just looking for trouble. 

nah, just changing the fuse box, happy to splice 100 wires...

> 
> IF YOU DO decide to do it for some masochistic reason, and I recommend you
> swap it all if you do, the actual work to do the swap on a like vehicle (i.e.
> '84 to '85 CGT) is not bad relatively. 

great example.  those two cars both have the same fusebox under the
hood!  The fuse box changeover came along with a few other changes, like
K-Jet to CIS-E...

> It takes about 2.5 hours each to pull
> harnessses carefully in donor and recipient car (BTDT)

Do you have a video of this?  I am obviously pulling harnesses the wrong
way!

 
>   In my case it has taken a month of weekday evenings to build the
> proper wiring system with pieces of harnesses from four different cars 

sounds like my power window wiring.  that's the one harness I pulled
intact so far from the 87.5... i wanted it too badly to hack it!

> Cutting the hole is the easiest part. Just something to
> think about before you jump in and pull out that Rabbit fuse panel...

This will happen on a nice weekend, with good attitude and hopefully
amusing company and mucho preparation.  The only way it could be any
kind of fun at all..

-- 
Huw Powell

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82 Audi Coupe; 85 Coupe GT
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