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Just a close up of the leftovers after an engine management harness becomes a donor and gives up its injector sub harness assembly.
And an overall look at the spaghetti factory. I did chose to bundle and tape some of it just to make handling the groups a little easier. At this point I had almost Six Hours into identifying, tracing, and unpinning the various leads that I needed.
These two shots are of the abstracted injector harness post harvest. Each of the banks or sides has had the individual injector wires matched and taped together and then coiled up and re-taped as a complete bank of 4. The third coil is the remaining wires that were pinned to the plugs for the computer plus a couple of orphans that suffered the indignity of being snipped off when when the harness was removed from the donor vehicle. At this point I have no idea where they went or what they did. And it may not matter.
And the reason for all the Hubbub, Ado, and Sturm und Drang. This is what the EV6 injector plug looks like. Prior to going through the aforementioned exercise of excising this harness, I did test fit this plug or one of its brethren to an injector from the LS6 manifold and they came together like they were married!
What's next?? well, that depends. Each injector plug comes with two wires. One wire goes to the red plug shown in a picture above and that plug gets attached to the fuse block located under that large black plastic cover that all sits on the driver's inner fender well. The other wire goes to one or the other of the plugs that mate to the computer. It would be a Hell of a lot of work but it looks like the existing injector plug wires could be, one at a time, edited out of the plugs to which they are attached and the new/replacement ones pinned into place in their stead. As I commented at the beginning of the last sentence; a f*** of a lot of work.
As to "Why would you bother" well if I got it right, no one would be the wiser. Total camouflage of the changes that were made.
However, thanks large to various interested observers hereabouts, I have been given several other options that entail dealing with Amazon. Absolutely fantastic options, absolutely hate the vendor.
Beyond using adapters, there is the option of harvesting just the ends plus some of the attached wires for pigtails, clipping away the old plugs, and doing a graft of the others in place of the old ones. Solder and heat shrink I have in abundance. it could even be done as a crimp connection and covered with loom or heat shrink tube to hide the work. I am not a big fan of mechanical connections when it comes to wiring but the entire harness is all crimps at the terminal ends so...........who am I to argue with the factory?
So I took today off to let my fingers heal from all the poking and prodding needed to persuade the wires to come free and come along peacefully.
Just a thought on using an air bag as a payload booster or rocket launcher, Kool, but use enough wire when you make the connections to the terminals on the bag to get you well away from the launch site. The explosively quick deployment of the bag when it is triggered and it does its thing has been known to injure people who were sitting in front of it when it went off.
Nick
