Wire tuck engine bays - Toyota Nation Forum : Toyota Car and Truck Forums

monkeypower102 · 09-13-2010, 05:00 PM

One of the current trends I've been seeing among tuner cars are wire tucked engine bays and I think it looks super clean. I've seen wire tucks done on mostly Hondas but that's pretty much it. Any of you guys with 7th gens ever wire tucked your engine bays? And tips and tricks? Pics?

topnotch · 09-13-2010, 05:58 PM

nah ive never seen any wire tucks on 7th gen but it would definately look cool but ive watched my nex door neighbour wire tucked his honda and all it is to it is just lenghing the wires so that you can run them behind the fender.

***Kiwi-Corolla*** · 09-13-2010, 06:09 PM

Over here we call it "de-looming" the engine bay. It would be worthwhile to do on a showcar, but not so much on a street driven car. Would look great however

***PhatRoyale*** · 09-13-2010, 09:44 PM

There was a 7th gen owner who almost did a complete wire tuck a while back.

He doesn't post here anymore unfortunately.

Piloter · 09-15-2010, 02:51 PM

Didn't Coomer over on the 6th-gen-Celica boards do this with his ST (originally with a 7AFE)? I can't remember if he swapped out to a 20V 4AGE though, but either way it was an A-series.

monkeypower102 · 09-19-2010, 08:01 PM

Oh man, if I could only find pics..

Or I'll do it and feel cool driving around with my hood off hahah

kaitaiya · 03-02-2012, 07:32 PM

from a friends cardomain.
http://www.cardomain.com/ride/328748...corolla/page-3

Bitter · 03-02-2012, 07:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Piloter

Didn't Coomer over on the 6th-gen-Celica boards do this with his ST (originally with a 7AFE)? I can't remember if he swapped out to a 20V 4AGE though, but either way it was an A-series.

He did, second owner found out the hard way that the fuse block relocated to the tire well was not a good idea. It got wet and rotted out some of the wire harness.

It might look nice, but it makes fixing/finding electrical problems a pain in the ass over and above the original difficulty not to mention the likely hood of things getting messed up as a result of new locations much higher.

***PhatRoyale*** · 03-04-2012, 12:29 AM

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Originally Posted by Bitter

It might look nice, but it makes fixing/finding electrical problems a pain in the ass over and above the original difficulty not to mention the likely hood of things getting messed up as a result of new locations much higher.

One of the main reasons why I avoided doing it.