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Thanks guys.
Next thing is to clean up the steering rack and give it a lick of hammerite along with the brake servo.
Still a little confused as to what to do with the car loom.
I read on a post that if the car is an spi with the engine and car loom in 1 then just cut the ecu plugs off and pull the wires through and will leave me with the wires I need to connect to the new engine loom???
Anyone help lol
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I run a Dta ecu in my car, which is also an spi, I pulled the loom from the car and removed the loom tape, cut off the ecu plug and basically removed everything that wasn't needed, left me with wires for a few things like the lights, horn, starter motor and oil pressure.
What engine and ecu will you be running?
I'm going to be running an early astra gte xe, so doesn't have the 3 plugs near the ecu it has the 1 plug in the bay instead. Ill dig out a picture of what I mean
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This is what I have instead of the 3 plugs https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...e11fa8d382.jpg
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Early 20XE are the easiest to wire up.
Red - battery/perm live
Blue - fuel pump
Black/yellow - switched/ignition live
Green - Rev counter
Brown/blue - ecu dash light
Blue(red trace) - speed sensor for digi dash
Brown/yellow - ecu diagnostic (the one you can earth to flash error codes
Only really need the first 3 to get it to run.
I ran my switched live to a switched live in the back of the fuse box
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But what I im confused with is where will I find them wires on the car loom?
I'm not clued up when it comes to wiring, I do have a distinction in electronics on motorbikes so not completely clueless I can do wiring just confused on this bit lol
I have the spi loom so engine and car loom are in 1, from what I've read and been told I need to cut the ecu plug then pull all the wires out and will be left with what I need, but will the wires I need to wire the xe up be in this or behind the clocks area?
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The ecu will have most if not all. Which is why people are referring to the old ecu.
It's just a case of finding the right wire and connecting it up to that plug. Mix of knowledge, Haynes and multimeter.
Perm live run to the battery or starter.
Switched just find one that?s only 12v when ignition is on, like wipers.
Fuel pump, just run a new wire as you?ll need a new pump Id guess.
Rev counter depends if you?ve got a Rev gauge
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Ok making a little more sense now, I need to sort out the cars ecu plug and pull all the wires out then might have a better idea.
Yeah ill be getting a different pump, I do have an external one which came with the engine but I was just going to get an internal mpi pump instead make it easier than fitting an external would it not?
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