So before we clean the engine bay. Sometimes these cable looms get torn up by inattentive mechanics or just break.
Hiding Engine Bay Wiring
How to hide wires in engine bay. The best way to hide those ugly wires is to tuck them into the fenders. Using the frame rails to run wires is a given. Unless youve got a 92 00 civic or 94 01 integra in which. Look for pvc 105 as i recall made by alpha or spc. Next up in the mk3 gti build we are stripping all the wiring from the engine bay. Easy diy how to.
Mercedes used similar in my 85 300d for both wires and vacuum tubing. Not hidden but clean and simple is to run engine bay wires inside smooth pvc wiring sheath like i did. Easier to keep clean than split loom and looks slick. After relocating the battery to the trunk and making a custom wiring loom from scratch all the wires are now hidden behind the firewall and fenders. But you cant and in most cases you cant even hide those rubber filled lumps of steel or aluminum that mount it all into your bay. These wires power things like radiator fans headlights turn signals and other important things.
This generation vr6 engine has a lot of wiring and harnesses under the hood. A quick look at replacing damaged or missing wiring harness sleeve or conduit in your engine bay. Every time you pull a wire or wires through a loom always pull a dummy wire or heavy fishing line in case you have a need to pull an extra wire at sometime. Using a fuel line heater hose or aluminum tubing works great for hiding wires and vacuum lines. It is kind of like heat shrink but doesnt shrink.