Wiring Issues...

[cherrington17]

i know some people on here have some decent wiring projects running on their cars... how do you go about organizing the wires? what from what, where things are going, and keeping them outta the way.

if i take the main hvac console piece off there are wires going every which way. :cry:

how has everyone organized their power, grounds and wires travelling all over the place?

i'm thinking a few ways myself, but each seems like a big project to rewire and i'm really un enthuthed to do it.

[flalero]

I used one power wire and one ground wire for my gauge overlays and a-pillar gauges. I ran a red wire from my cubby hole light for power and I ran a black wire to a ground just underneath the plastic on the door sill.

[sound_xtreme]

im making a custom block that i can plug different gauges into one ACC switched and the other on all the time. doin it when i take out the dash.

[cherrington17]

hmm, apparently no-one has done alot of under dash work yet. <_<.

i have 3 power and 3 ground coming in from my vents, to a dist. block then going to the actual power and ground. 2 pair going to each set of cathodes. 1 pair going to the cubby lights i have, 7 wires going to the switch plate under my h.u.

its get'n kinda crazy under there. i'm have an idea of how to change it, but i'll be a giant pain in my ass....

[bigd6983]

lol im with you man........wires from my power inverter, cables for my ps2, my neons under the dash, my light switches and led's(3 switches, 2 leds), 3 sets of rca's.......im with you in having to clean them up......

[ImSoBored]

zip ties work wonders.

[cherrington17]

zip ties will group them together, but i need to organize my powers and grounds. (all of the wires i mentioned all look the same too.) so everytime i gotta fix something i spend half an hour just tracing wires. :pissed:

[flalero]

Color code the wires to each thing you are powering with a little piece of colored electrical tape.

[bigd6983]

yea what fla alero said really helps, i have tons of different colored wires and i know which ones go where, i have my gauge wiring really clean, i think i have pictures on my cardomain from when i did it, i just need to match it up with below the dash because its a mess down there.....