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Im sure this post is going to be taken the wrong way but....

What is the going rate to pay someone to do the wiring swap (engine and ECU harness) from an EJ into an L... including cutting down the harness??

Anyone had to pay an auto electrician or anything like that??

Dave

LOL...i heard through the grapevine it costs a carton of beer...

alex

Can u redo mine for a carton Alex???? LOL

Dave

kisses?..

alex

cost me near 200 to have all the front wiring fixed in my old wagon when it all ****ed out and melted n stuff. and he spent near on a day working on it..

I`ll strip and label the harness for $300....garentee`d to work as per labeled. Harness must be complete, undamaged, unmodified and in good working order, removed from std liberty.....

As for fitting to the car....previous stezza installes, ****ty alarm installs and **** box cars would not let me give fixed price ! $50 an hour + parts if required(extra relays, wiring, fusable links, gromets, broken bolts, brokens clips, captive nuts, rusted/broken parts etc etc owner to source and supply..... or sourcing time included in chargeable hours + parts cost, timing will be reasonable, done it before)

OS

sunspares in QLD want $350 (price is from last year it might have gone up) that includes the loom cut down etc....but that would only be good if ya didnt have a loom.....i think they might do an exchange type thing to... also steve from the rising sun does em to i think... im not sure how much......
Dave it can be hard to set a price cause for some people you might do a job cheaper (ie friends etc) the best way is to work out a hourly rate (say half of what a sparky would charge) and go from there...like oversteer said so it must take him 6hrs to do the loom......

by the sounds of it Suby Wan Kenobi does some sort of adaptor for $50 it says it in another thread.....showthread.php?t=5558......if this true it would be the way to go....

waggaclint wrote:by the sounds of it Suby Wan Kenobi does some sort of adaptor for $50 it says it in another thread.....showthread.php?t=5558......if this true it would be the way to go....

yeh i saw that and tols the future engine swappers. sounds good to me.

....yeah that sounds plausable !

...maybe theres a little more to it than making a EJ engine run in an L ! ...just like fitting a EJ rack and collum into a Brumby.

Great idear but, would be a sweet set-up if you have the time....and could, for those concerned, make it legal/registerable.

OS

SuBaRiNo wrote:What is the going rate to pay someone to do the wiring swap (engine and ECU harness) from an EJ into an L... including cutting down the harness?? Dave

No Dave i think that you have gotten it wrong... i was willing to pay you what ever you thought was fair however remember that mine is from L series to L series no EJ anything or cutting required ;-D LOL

Maybe he isnt talking about yours .

Mike.

LOL... in every way i thought this thread could have been taken off track i never even thought of that Jaffa. Good one. Hard to make a single post without getting someone offside these days.

Dave

I hell want to see this wiring adaptor... and can not for the life of me figure out how it can be down with an adaptor... especially not for $50.

Dave

My thoughts on this adapter is you use the full lib front harness which will plug into most l accessories,light etc then you plug in the back half of the loom via adapter.r u

Thats the way it was explained to me by Soobi Wan Knobi, i purchased one off him to do the convert into my brumby, it hasnt turned up yet so i cant tell anyone eactly wat it looks like or how well it works.

I can't see how it can effectively happen with an adaptor... I won't say its not possible but I will definitely say it won't be as neat and tidy as a proper job.

The adaptor isn't there to run a Wolf or Microtech EJ is it? How does this adaptor go with the different models too, MY, L carb and L MPFI/Turbo all have fairly different wiring hey...

Local price for me to strip and tag a harness is $130. EJ harness that is.

The Adapter that Dave is building came about after I fitted the complete loom to the front of my ute. The adapter plugs in to the SMJ of the EJ harness and directly in to the standard rear loom.

All it does is allow you to simply wire the rear end of you car after fitting the complete ej front loom. It saves people about 4 hours of wiring.

Fitting an EJ loom to an earlier Sube is not plug and play in behind the dash as some people may have you think. There is hours of work to be done to have every thing connected and working properly.

Best way for the average person to go is a stripped down loom layed over the original. Fitting a stripped and tagged loom can be done by just about any one. There is not a lot of wiring to be done. Most of the time is spent in laying the new harness in position.

The adapters he is making are made to suit what ever the loom is you are fitting to what ever model you are putting it in. There is multiple different adapters that are needed. Put simply it is very much like a 7 pin round trailer plug to a 7 pin flat. All the wires are there, you just need the adapter that goes in between. No cutting, soldering or taping invlolved. Plug and ply. Exactly the same as the one I built for Brumbyrunners new ute you have all been looking at lately. WRX -> MY adapter.

Suba wrote:Maybe he isnt talking about yours .

Mike.

Yes Mike i was well aware that this thread had absolutely nothing to do with me.

SuBaRiNo wrote:LOL... in every way i thought this thread could have been taken off track i never even thought of that Jaffa. Good one. Hard to make a single post without getting someone offside these days.

Dave

Yes i get that... i was not offended nor did i want to hijack the thread. Lets see this thing.

BYB-01 wrote: Fitting a stripped and tagged loom can be done by just about any one. There is not a lot of wiring to be done. Most of the time is spent in laying the new harness in position.

It's true ... If I can do it, absolutely anyone can!