extending the plugins for the ECU

[daniel Dee]

I am looking for an extension for the wires/plugins to the ECU...
As I would like to move my ECU out a bit (12inches+).

[Brett Haviland]

ill come to your house and acually extend all wires the required distance... this is shitty work with the amount of wires required to extend... but if your willing to pay $50 an hour i can do it.. it should take about 2 hours ish to extend all of them.


i doubt that you will find a 12" extension for a 1G harness.

[John Hartman]

yep, its gonna have to be custom for sure.

[Mikael Mikkelsen]

If your not completely confident that you can do it then pay Brett the $100.
He will use the proper equipment so you don't have issues.

If you do it yourself get wires that are the exact same size and get a soldering iron and solder, and a whole whack of shrink tubing, and get a good few hours to do it right.

1 wire wrong can really really screw up your car.

[John Hartman]

+1 on solder and shrink wrap.

Also, make sure you do a diagram of what wire goes to what wire..

I would do it one of two ways, and I am not sure myself which one I would do.

Either cut the wiring so that there is lots left on the plugin end, so you can reference the wiring colours correctly, or cut it and run long wires with the correct crimped ends on them, each one factory style terminals inside the factory plastic plugin bocks.  You can get the terminal ends.  We have a box of many of them at work.  you just pop each one out and then stick the new ones in and only have one joint, not two.

[daniel Dee]

+1 on solder and shrink wrap.

Either cut the wiring so that there is lots left on the plugin end, so you can reference the wiring colours correctly, or cut it and run long wires with the correct crimped ends on them, each one factory style terminals inside the factory plastic plugin bocks.  You can get the terminal ends.  We have a box of many of them at work.  you just pop each one out and then stick the new ones in and only have one joint, not two.

factory style plugs-----and plug in bocks !!!
eg.. male and female plugs and box end???  I can make my own extension cords then.

If you think you have access to this I would to take an look..

Thanks Dan

[John Hartman]

no, you know the metal ends inside any factory type connector?  Small parts inside the plastic block?  You pop out the old ones with a small tool and crimp on new ones, then push them into the factor connector.

works great, however, if you are not familiar with them, and don't have access to the exact ones, I would suggest against this as there are over 100 pins in the ECU harness.

[Mikael Mikkelsen]

go to a junkyard, chop out a plug, people never take the plug, just the ecu rite...

take it to an electronics store and get the exact ones to match, get the tool too then theres no guesswork

done and done, will take you no more then 2 hours of ripping around town, you can get the wires at the same electronics store.

Find a big supplier around you, theres a good number of them just use the all mighty google.


you will probably just hand it to them and they will do the rest, then you just soldier, shrink rap, clip, and snap...

[Jason Harwood]

I was gonna say, the best way to do it would be to just cut a stock ECU harness to use to extend your's.