Newman's 1986 BMW 326rb build thread.

It would have been pretty badass to just up and show up with it one day.

But this is more enjoyable for the rest of us :-p

Good to see it going again.

+1

it would suck for us out-of-towners

Nice. Im always down to lend a hand when Jay and I arent wrapped up in our junk pile of 240 parts :wink:

Or with mine, btw sunday or monday for some :snky: work?

i like that fuse block, i’ve been looking to run something similar. is that kicker?

The fuse block is kwikwire
the distribution block is kicker.

I believe your facebook advised to never buy kwikwire

Great build! keep up the awesome work!

yes, your finaly getting to work on this again…i missed the constant updates of this build

Progress, cool.

i totally tried getting him to do this

The car looks good. Thanks for the new lunch spot.

I just went over some other universal harnesses and it looks like you run into the same issues. Painless sells an electric fan add on kit and so on because you’re still stuck adding relays for anything that draws a significant amount of power.

Are there any functions besides the fuel pump, fans, and headlights that you’ll need to relay?

On a side note, searching for “universal 14 circuit body harness” gave me some interesting results…
http://www01.flippid.com/item/1000999382/Chasey_s_Universal_Harness

I had the same issues with all of the universal harness kits, they are never set up quite like you need them. This is the reason I just made up my own using some OE type fuse boxes and relay sockets.

Dan

Once I reconfigured the bus on the main fuseblock, it’s OK, it’s just not set up to use relays, when it really should. The relay add-ons are crap because you wind up having in-line fuses hanging on wires. I hate that.

Next time I will totally build my own harness using stuff like this:
http://cgi.ebay.com/4-Fuse-Block-Packard-Delphi-Build-Your-Own-Panels_W0QQitemZ290374202959QQcmdZViewItemQQptZMotors_Car_Truck_Parts_Accessories?hash=item439ba6b64f

Here’s what went down today:

01/24/10 - More wiring…
http://onyxsyndicate.com/newman/e30gtr/img/thumbs/mess.jpg

Dude, as messy as your garage looks, it still looks pretty organized. Progress looks good. I know better than to ask for an ETA of this beast…

I assure you there is very little order there…

ugh i wish i wasn’t so lazy. I need to do a full rewire to my rx7 to get rid of all the extra bs that isn’t even there anymore.

:snky::snky::snky::snky::snky::snky::snky::snky:

omg that picture is freaking me out. It looks like 3pictures overlaying each other or something.lol

oh and clean your garage.:smiley: