So since NOBODY carries the harness i need separate from the ptu, i had to do something about it myself to hold me off until i can find a good used ptu with harness online somewhere…or find the time to take it to innovative to have it just bypassed, and have the ignitor chip (aka PTU) wired directly to the EFI harness…
I’m really nervous about wiring, but i figured, this part was garbage, and rather than just throwing it out, why not try to use it…
so first i started taking shit apart, and wrote down what wires went where to and from the clips and the ptu…
i bought 6 different color wires on my way home, and knew i had black wire already at home…a lot easier than working with all black, that’s for damn sure…
i also realized when i got home that the wiring i got was a bit thicker than the original harness, but no biggie…just made things more snug :tup:
in carefully taking out the prongs from the back of each clip…i made a few mistakes on the first clip, but the other 3 went pretty easy…
even more frustrating/time consuming than carefully taking each prong out of the clips without breaking anything (which isn’t easy to do on 16 year old brittle plastic clips…with the pressure of not being able to replace them) was carefully prying open each of the prongs with a razor, and carefully removing the old, thin, worn, exposed, shitty wiring…not that bad for the first few, but 26 prongs later i was annoyed as shit…
next i cut all the wires to equal length, and taped them all together so as to match the wiring on the stock harness, but with about an extra 4 to 6 inches on each side, so i’d have more room to mount the PTU away from the engine, away from as much heat as possible, since heat was the downfall of the original style PTU that nissan had to recall…
i finally got everything back together after tons of back tracking, re-taping, etc…and when all was said and done, wires started to pop out of the one clip…the first one i messed up on a bit…i must have broken the part in the clip that holds the wires secure within it…damit…
luckily, the wires are much thicker and sturdier than the originals…and found a way to put the PTU on the car so that there’s constant pressure pushing those wires inward, toward the clip…the only way they’ll come out is if somebody tries and pulls them out…in which case, i can just stick them back in again…it would take one hell of a bumpy road, worse than i’ve ever seen around here…to even come close to potentially popping one of those wires out, so i think i’m all set…
paranoia sets in…i remember second guessing myself toward the beginning…i started to take wires out of one of the clips i remember…and wasn’t sure if i put them back in the right order, or accidentaly reversed…no turning back now, only way to know is to try it out…
now it’s time to go outside, and try it out…it’s almost 3AM, and i respect my cool neighbors too much to start a loud car while they sleep, especially since it may be louder than usual if there’s something wrong…so i hook it up, and go to bed, and get no sleep because i’m constantly wondering if my first DIY will work…
this morning before school, i have some time…so i go to my car, take a few deep breaths…look under the hood…everything still in place, looking good…get in, try to start it…and she starts right up :tup: sounding very happy…i rev it a bit, let it sit for 5 minutes or so, i’m happy…she’s happy…life is good…
i didn’t want to take a chance of getting stranded though somewhere since i had an interview a bit ago for an internship, so later tonight i’ll just one more time make sure everything’s snug, secure it down a bit more, make sure that one clip with wires potentially lose in the back isn’t moving anywhere…and take her out for a little rough-housing…see how it holds up
this is only temporary though…i’d still like to find a new stock one, i dont want to always have the thought in the back of my head that i have potentially lose wires under my hood, and the clips are old and brittle like i already said, so i’d like to replace them soon as well…
all in all though, i’m very proud of my first, and my first successful…DIY…as simple of a job as it may seem to most of you that do this kinda stuff on a regular basis 
newman), that one clip is the only source of potential problems i’ve noticed/worry about…but like i said, the way i have it in there now, it’s not coming apart…