C10CJ: A Pro-touring '71 Stepside on a No Limit Pro-C10 Chassis

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Also got the ECU engine harness completed and installed. I re-routed the wiring and came up with my own branch scheme. Got it all taped up then all wrapped up in Classic Braid from Painless Performance. That stuff looks really good. The only drawback is the kit I ordered (chassis pack) doesn't include nearly enough self vulcanizing tape (used to wrap the joints in the branches) but I guess they don't count on you wrapping an engine harness and a vehicle harness.

Here's the harness after re-routing, prior to getting wrapped. For the record, I officially hate the universal harness after going through this process. Where I have the ECU I have almost 4 ft of excess harness to contend with, yet I'm still super tight on one branch due to the lengths being already terminated. If I had this to do over again I'd get an unterminated harness, but I went ahead and got the harness with the ECU. Probably works for most people and makes their life easier, but for guys like me it drove me up the wall. Oh well. It's done. It's installed for now. It may get yanked in the future.


Little closer shot showing all the branches. For reference, I really only need about 1' of trunk vs the 5'+ shown above.


Here's that giant grommet again, this time on the harness. Nope I didn't cut the grommet and the connectors are all larger than the 1" center hole and it doesn't stretch enough to clear the connectors even after 10+ min in boiling water. So yep, I wound up removing all the wires from each of the ECU connectors. I of course have them all in a spreadsheet by pin, wire color and function so it didn't bother me, but I still only did one connector at a time.


Here's the harness all wrapped up. Way too long and I even have some wires in a loop they were so long. Live and learn.


A close up of a couple branches.