We've all seen the nicely tucked engine bays that appear as if they shouldn't even run, and alot of people think to themselves "I should do that," yet few know where to start. With that being said, here's a step by step of my wire-tuck I did on my EG8 when I had it. I know it's not a CB7 but the general idea should apply to CB7's as well. This was only a partial tuck, and a half ass one at that, however I will try to make this how to as thorough as possible.
EDIT: Excuse the condition of the car. I had just bought it and the guy before me took horrible care of it.
Materials:
extra wire (a spare chassis harness makes this really easy)
soldering iron
solder
shrink wrap
wire cutters
metal clothes hanger
The beginning Layout:
I have noticed that the majority of Honda engine bays have two sets of plug, one on each side of the engine bay by the firewall, as well as the engine bay fuse box, battery, etc. a shown here.
Now to start you have the sections of the harness that run along the inside of the engine bay for the lights on either side pictured here. I'll start w/ these.
First you need to remove the fenders so that you can reroute these wires to under the fenders. Once this is done, cut the harness and pull it out through the holes like so: (note: In retrospect I'm sure there is a way to run them through the doors and into the same location, however I didn't think to use this way in the method being shown here.)
Once the harness has been cut and routed through, you want to extend the wires so that they reach using the routing shown. To do this, solder the wires together and then shrink wrap them to keep moisture and debris out.
Once the wires have been extended, you need to route them to the front by the headlights and turn signals.
Idealy you would have routed the wires through this section here however I didn't think to do this until I had already reconnected the wires, and don't have pics from when I fixed it although I am sure you get the idea. When going through here, I found that stretching out a metal hanger and making a small hook on the end, worked great for pulling the wires through.
Here's the finished product on each side: (yes I know the rusty bolts really need to be replaced.)
EDIT: Excuse the condition of the car. I had just bought it and the guy before me took horrible care of it.
Materials:
extra wire (a spare chassis harness makes this really easy)
soldering iron
solder
shrink wrap
wire cutters
metal clothes hanger
The beginning Layout:
I have noticed that the majority of Honda engine bays have two sets of plug, one on each side of the engine bay by the firewall, as well as the engine bay fuse box, battery, etc. a shown here.
Now to start you have the sections of the harness that run along the inside of the engine bay for the lights on either side pictured here. I'll start w/ these.
First you need to remove the fenders so that you can reroute these wires to under the fenders. Once this is done, cut the harness and pull it out through the holes like so: (note: In retrospect I'm sure there is a way to run them through the doors and into the same location, however I didn't think to use this way in the method being shown here.)
Once the harness has been cut and routed through, you want to extend the wires so that they reach using the routing shown. To do this, solder the wires together and then shrink wrap them to keep moisture and debris out.
Once the wires have been extended, you need to route them to the front by the headlights and turn signals.
Idealy you would have routed the wires through this section here however I didn't think to do this until I had already reconnected the wires, and don't have pics from when I fixed it although I am sure you get the idea. When going through here, I found that stretching out a metal hanger and making a small hook on the end, worked great for pulling the wires through.
Here's the finished product on each side: (yes I know the rusty bolts really need to be replaced.)
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