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Author Subject: What wiring can be removed? Help please!
paulgt

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Post #1
After some advice please guys Smile

Stripping the car out for track use and wanted a few pointers on which wires can be removed.
All im wanting is to be able to open the doors with the key and start the engine, don't want to take something out and not be able to start the car!

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This lot is from the map light and a black dome thing (sensor of some sort?)...

...traced it down the pillar to this plug, can this be removed without any issues?


2.
Found this plug, whats it for and can it be removed as its hanging by a thread!

Traced it back and it goes across into the passenger footwell, its the bottom black wire in the passenger footwell


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Whats for what here!?!
Iv taken the airbag box out and traced the wires from that to the seat airbags. Theres still some orange wires there, are these for the seatbelt tensioners? Can these be removed? Needs to be able to pass an MOT.
What else can come out? I assume in this lot theres fuelpump, rear lights, rear abs sensors?


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In the A-pillars theres a sensor (assume for alarm/immobiliser sysytem) can these be removed?
Behind the rear view mirror theres a black box with wiring that runs down the passenger side A-pillar, whats this for? along with an earthng wire which earths on the shell behind the map light housing, can these both be removed?

Sorry if these are all silly questions but wiring isn't my cup of tea LOL
Thanks in advance Thumbs up

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Posted 20th Sep 2015 at 09:31
rikky 🦔

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Post #2
to do a decent job you're going to want the looms out of the car on the floor where you can remove all the insulation tape and conduit and work our what's what

i had all my looms out on the workshop floor, and zip tied or marked every plug that i intended to delete, and followed the wires for it back to the fusebox or whatever route they took. then you can snip them there once you've confirmed it's not a shared wire or anything like that and repeat until done, then put your shortened loom back into conduit and tape

if you just start cutting them back like you're intending to you're most certainly going to f**k something up

if you spend a bit of extra time on it you'll get a much better result. plus a couple of bin liners full of redundant wiring Smile

this was the dash loom from my p1 track car before/after. it was about half the weight and size from previous



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Posted 20th Sep 2015 at 09:43
paulgt

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Thanks for that, that loom looks very neat!

Im not looking to just go cutting wires, im trying to trace what goes where and if it can be removed before doing anything.

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Posted 20th Sep 2015 at 09:44
prism7guy

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I did like what rikky said with mine. It's a very slow process though!
I've just fitted a standalone ecu in mine so ideally I could do with removing my engine bay loom (bulkhead to n/s wheel arch area) and re-trimming that one again.

I know you didn't mention the rain sensor in your post but it's worth keeping that in from memory or your wipers will act up and be a general pain in the arse. I think I just shortened the loom for mine and hid the sensor in the back of the dash.

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Posted 20th Sep 2015 at 09:54
Day666

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prism7guy wrote:
I did like what rikky said with mine. It's a very slow process though!
I've just fitted a standalone ecu in mine so ideally I could do with removing my engine bay loom (bulkhead to n/s wheel arch area) and re-trimming that one again.

I know you didn't mention the rain sensor in your post but it's worth keeping that in from memory or your wipers will act up and be a general pain in the arse. I think I just shortened the loom for mine and hid the sensor in the back of the dash.


100% what I did ....slow work but worth it 1/2 of wires removed safely ...
Also add if you have one ....don't remove Rainsensor module which fixes to Windscreen from the connector just ....un clip it from Windscreen behind mirror cover complete & feed it down passenger side A pillar ....under plastic A pillar trim & cable tie up complete behind dash if you remove the module all kinds of stuff start to happen like wipers don't stop in correct position & stop where you turn them off & mine even wouldn't stop at one point ....PMSL

PS...just incase you didn't know ....check .... unless you have a friendly MOT tester be careful removing items on the MOT that have to light up on ignition on & then go off ....Plus MOT says seats have to ajust forward & backwards so fixed buckets with no sliding mech Fail etc etc etc ....check first m8
Posted 23rd Sep 2015 at 21:45
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Day666 wrote:
Plus MOT says seats have to ajust forward & backwards so fixed buckets with no sliding mech Fail etc etc etc ....check first m8


unless it falls into specialised modification criteria..

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Posted 23rd Sep 2015 at 21:59
demondriverdan

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I did what Rikky and Day have done in one of the race cars. It was a bloody slow process and I've still got some wires I don't think I need! Smile In the other race car I'm going to start from scratch although that runs an aftermarket ECU and dash so easier to do.

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Posted 23rd Sep 2015 at 22:07
adam b

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Post #8
I've done a similar thing in mine. Loads out of my phase 3 loom.

Took welshpug to get it to work after though Smile

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Posted 2nd Oct 2015 at 22:40
mocinim

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Question fella where do the speaker wires go are they a stright cable from the door to the stereo or are they linked somewhere have a earth fault thats not in the door jam just cant find it believe it maybe behind the dash

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Posted 2nd Oct 2015 at 22:58
phillipm

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The black dome bit is the IR reciever for the key fob btw.

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