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Yeah, a lot of people charge stupid money for it...craziness. That's what prompted me to buy one of these.

A mate of mine had a full custom loom made for his 180sx from a hot rod workshop. Cost him under 1k. This tells you that people are not really charging you an hourly rate when they quote 2-3k. Unfortunately they didn't have time to make me one up as they'd just lost an employee.

After knowing this I'd refuse to pay someone that sort of money, even if I could afford it. I know it can be done for under 1k if you find someone who knows what they're doing.

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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

Yeah RPM and I were discussing a painless item but it was dismissed in my application for whatever reason.

Bit of an update for those interested.

Allthough the total cost has not been worked out yet (mainly how many hours of labour) i can get the wire for $2-$2.50 a meter depending on colour.

I will also have two options for the loom either with existing plugs (cut the plug off the old loom and solder new wire onto it) or comletely new loom and plugs, the expensive one.

I am possibily going to do this (or start) this month depending on work so i should have a total cost relativly soonish and i dont think at this stage it will not top the 1k mark (i hope).

Also i have attached a spec sheet on the wire for interest sake. I will be using the 7 strand/0.2mm wire for my car and look at the weights. A 100m roll weighs only 410g :(

teflonwire_rsPDF.pdf

The spec's i have are for the 3.5A/6A 250V wire there is also a 500V wire but i think its over kill.

I will also work out a group buy/deal for sau users.

Cheers

Ross

Dane let me know when your finished. I'm going to be minimising a loom in the next month for a gtr which I believe will involve making most of it from scratch and using old plugs. Might even record the time it takes to give some of you an idea.

I thought everybody was full of it when talking about loom weights but they weigh a fair bit as I have a gtr sitting in the backyard now. Don't know about 25kg but maybe just under 20kg by feel.

Shall do mate. I wouldn't have thought they weighed that much either, but going by this loom which is just the bare essentials and it weighs in at 14lbs (with switchboard and fusebox) it wouldn't surprise me that they weigh as much as they do.

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There is a lot of wiring you dont need too. Looking at mine on the weekend and once the hicas is removed there is only the fuel pump and tail lights that you need to the back, only about 10 wires i think. Less than half of what is there now anyway.

Anyupdates on your one Dane??

Cheers

Ross

Yeah, I'd love to be able to do it too!

Ross: Agreed mate, that's what prompted me to just do it. There's HEAPS of wiring going to the back of the car now and it can all go. I ripped out my pop up headlights, so I won't need to wire them up either. But haven't made a start on it yet as it's off getting a new seatmount made. Should be back this week then we can make a start.

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Just to keep this alive and up to date i will start removing the looms this weekend and stripping them down. I have done a bit of a look around over the last few weeks and have just decided on all the switchs, plugs etc that ill be using so it wont be much longer before i have a final product (if all goes to plan).

Cheers

Ross

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