Anyone else making their own loom?

[jasongray5]

Im not too bad with the old electrickery, so fancey making my own loom, although I have hit a little hurdle, what should I use as a distribution block?
Im guessing that I should have 2 of them aswell, one for permanent live, and the other as a switched live?
Any help, always appriciated!
Jas

[Peter-C]

This link may be of help

http://www.haynes.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=4763&highlight=wiring

[adrianreeve]

Jas

Just use two 4 or 6 way fuse boxes to distribute the leccy. Feed one from the battery, the other from the ignition switch.

Cheers

Adrian

[jasongray5]

Cheers snapper!
Thats the diagram that im working to, Im just abit puzzled as to how to take off feeds to everything?

[AshG]

i put a crimp on the big thick live cable then soldered several small cables together and put them in the other side of the crimp then put heat shrink over it. i then run the smaller cables to individual fuses on the fuse box. i also have a big master fuse on the big thick cable up near the battery. did the same for the switched ignition stuff.

[davidimurray]

Jas

If you have a look at the sierra wiring on the column you will find that there are quite a few wires from there that you can use. Most things either come from the permanent live - which i've fed through a megafuse on the bulkhead so you use rings on that to feed power to wherever you need it. Most of the remaining power comes from the main ignition relay so you can either fir all your wires into the terminals for that. Otherwise I've used inline crimp connectors as it is rare to have more than 4 wires connecting together.

Hope that is some help.

Cheers

Dave

[jasongray5]

Cheers guys! Ive kept most of the wires on the column switches, think i will go with the way Ash suggests and solder a load of little wires to one big one!
Cheers guys, really usefull!
Jas

[twinturbo]

I will be using this.

http://polevolt.co.uk/acatalog/Modular_Fuse_and_Relay_System.html

[james3004]

good idea TT, just gotta work what bits are needed:confused:

[twinturbo]

Yeah, I spent a while and need to find my notes again DOH...

TT

[Coozer]

Jas

Just use two 4 or 6 way fuse boxes to distribute the leccy. Feed one from the battery, the other from the ignition switch.

Cheers

Adrian

Nissan Note has a distribution link hanging off the battery. Its has a starter cable connection, 1x60amp and 3x80 amp with big spade connections on the bottom.
get down the scrappy and that will help with distribution off the battery.

http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/nn126/ridler123/General/P1010678.jpg
http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/nn126/ridler123/General/P1010677.jpg
Steve

[jasongray5]

Big thanks to everyone with their help thus far on my wiring?
Ive got everything in and working, I have tried to wrap it in loom tape, and secure it where it will allow, its less than the 300mm anywho!

Heres a pic, do you think this will be ok, all loose wires are either for the dash, to be tidied after the dash is fitted, or for the repeaters in the scuttle, so will also be tidied later

http://locostbuilders.co.uk/upload/wiring_001.jpg

Cheers fella's

[Old Git]

Looks OK to me chap :)

I'm busy building my own loom from scratch too on my McSorley +442 (stretched Ron Champion Locost). Got the dash wired to a couple of connectors so it can be easily removed. Got to set to now and fit the rest of the wiring to the chassis. I spent about 4 days designing the wiring diagram. Thought it would be better to work from a diagram rather than wire 'on-the-hoof' and then try and draw a wiring diagram from that.

JB

[jasongray5]

Cheers for the reply Old Git! I have made a diagram mapping exactly what each wire does, Just so if I ever come to sell the car, if something electrical goes wrong, whoever buys it will have an idea of what does what!
Someone on here published a good wiring diagram too!
Cheers again

[TSM Locost]

Davidmurry did the excellent Diagram

http://rapidshare.com/files/41145061..._Wiring_V1.xls