Shaved bays?

Im thinking about doing a full wire tuck in my honda. been reading up on it a bit. has anyone done this before? If u have any tips that would be aaweesome!. im gonna try to run most of the wires inside my fenders. prolly just gonna see how i can do it as i go...

never even heard of this honestly, but would like to see this done. i assumed of something like this but never looked into it.

Its a LOT of work to shave a bay. Wire tucking is pretty intensive in itself. I do have a friend in WA who does both for people on the side out of his garage, I personally don't have the patience for it! It does look sweet though!

haha yeah winter project for sure. gonna need to go buy a lil welder too

Ya dude they're sick. Here's a turbo 420a shaved

sweet, im doing it for sure. but ill do it this winter. give me something to do to her instead of just lookin at it haha.

My buddy wants to come out here over winter and "help" tuck my bay and shave it. I don't even know if I want him to. As awesome as it would be, my car is built to be a functioning track car. Maybe I'd let him tuck the headlight harness and bay harness, or whatever it is. Asfar as the engine harness is concerned I think leaving it OEM, or very close is probably the best bet for ease of working on the car.

I dunno, it looks sick, I guess you just need to narrow down what the main use of your car is going to be and go from there. I'd love to see a nice clean tucked and shaved bay around town!

im doing it for sure! mine is gonna be a lightly boosted weekend/summer driver so, would be the perfect car to do it.

You will probably have to cut and extend some wires in order to do this, get some of these labels and it'll help you out more than you can imagine. And a shit ton of heatshirk too!

where can i get those lil labels? yeah its really gonna suck splicing and connecting hundreds of wires.

Ive seen them at Oreilly and I think they label to 100 too so that should work. . It'll be worth it though dude, even wire tucked engine bays that arent shaved look really nice. This is the loom I use, It makes for a clean look, its powerbraid by painless and it comes in a bunch of different sizes, it just adds to the clean look for when loom is needed.

ill start gathering supplies, cant wait to do this

Goodluck dude. PM me if you have anymore questions about supplies or anything.

I know you can buy harnesses that that come premade for wire tucks but they'll cost you an arm and leg. GL with it;)

Be a baller buy some Raychem and Milspec wiring!

Ya if you really wanna do it right and look freakin awesome go with the Mil spec quick connects.

Here is a link for you to check out. http://www.rywire.com/

Easy route: Get a car from the 1960s and do a harness tuck on it. YOU ONLY HAVE LIKE 3 WIRES!

holy 600 bucks! but yeah seems like it would make it alot easier....

I don't envy you at all. I did a lot of wiring on the 240 and it gets old real quick. I hate wiring and hoses as much as anyone and wanted to simplify everything. What I hated about tucking wires is you then have no mounts or points to hook the wires to. Obviously you can make ones and add things, it's just one of the many joys you will get to experience.

To me the factory wiring is what is ugly, and there is no way to make it all invisiable so a premade harness that looks cool is the best route in my opion. Then even in places where it i s visable it isn't an eye sore.

Make a strut tower brace that also serves as wiring conduit..

monkeybear wrote:

Ya if you really wanna do it right and look freakin awesome go with the Mil spec quick connects.

Here is a link for you to check out. http://www.rywire.com/

That is truly astronomically overpriced. You can fin people who do i tmuch cheaper and actually better quality. If time wasn't of the essence when I ordered my harness I would've gone through Wireworx. He's an electrician by day and at night builds custom harnesses for people. I spoke with him on the phone about doing my K harness and he's MUCH more reasonably than Rywire price wise (Call him, he quoted me almost $100 less than his ad on HT when I spoke over the phone with him). Not to knock a dude, but word has been that Rywire's quality has been slacking lately too. I guess when you blow up and have harnesses waiting and waiting you start to rush and miss things. It happens, we're all humans, but it makes it a giant PITA for the purchaser.

You'll have to PM the OP in this thread of you're interested. Honda-Tech Locked the thread, because unless they're getting a cut of the Money they don't like "businesses" (as they called him) advertising.

HT Wireworx Thread

And Yeah, even putting the K harness in the EK, I've been modifying harness Mounta to place in places to keep the Harness away from certain things, and to keep from chaffing, etc. Fortunately most of the EK harness "clips" that mount to the chassis are the same design as the ones from the RSX, so it is for the most part as hard as figuring out where I want a mount and then drilling it out larger so a certain bolt will fit through or a tweak or bend here and there to make it look "right" so to speak. Whenever I do a car, my ultimate goal is to make sure everything looks like it belongs where it is and was supposed to be there from the factory so to speak.