No cutting of any wire is necessary. Some may seem as though they need to be cut to get them sorted out, but they do not. Be patient & separate what you can. Use painters tape to mark your plugs & sensors, especially your 6 coil packs! Remove only what loom covering (rigid plastic) you must remove as you go. Get everything for the passenger side to the passenger side then concern yourself w/the driver side. Save yourself some grief & forget about unplugging the fuel injector plug & the plug to the rear of the driver side cylinder head by removing the fuel injector rails. The injector plug is a bitch & I left it alone. Wait to remove the plastic loom on the plug end as these areas tend to be a pita & you can probably just leave'em as I did some.
Upper/lower collector removed, fuel rail removed, wire loom stripped & all sensors & plugs marked. Note the "hard loom" to the upper left engine area, near the coolant bleeder. That is hard plastic & is just like the hard plastic loom that sits atop the passenger side fender, but with some patience, a pair of nimble cutters & a small utility knife, you can cut that down to allow you to shift the harness 90 degrees as 80% of the harness will be running along the back of the engine, not the passenger side.
Cut that hard loom back. I didn't remove it, just cut it down to reroute then ran new loom to & down, inside of it about an inch, wrapping it all up in 33 3m electrical tape afterwards. You've got wiggle room in there. This photo is taken before I cut the top off this hard plastic loom.
Fuel rail is very flexible. Put it off to the side while still connected, once connected valve is unplugged from wire loom. That big mess of wires on top of the engine is for the two plugs mentioned above, fuel rail & driver cylinder head. The wires laying on the driver side fender are the maf, t.b., cam sensor, a/c. The o2 sensor wires can all stay at the back & bound up in your new loom(s).
Lots of extra wire that frankly I didn't feel like cutting & soldering back together, so I ended up with 3 looms. Leave yourself some extra space & keep the looms from coming too close to the fuel rail or else you might not be able to get the fuel rail back on. No shit! I came close. The loom hanging from the hard lines on the firewall is the ground package that originally bolted to the front of the engine, on top of the timing chain cover. Now it's bolted to the back bolt of the lower intake collector, the bolt sticking up between the end of the green tape & the squiggly hard line connecting the two fuel rails.
Routing the wires to the backside of the coil packs, which will no longer be visible underneath the intake collector assembly. The power steering, alternator & a/c wires tuck behind the cam sensors.
This fucker is tucked, almost. Got the alternator & added ground wires to deal w/soon. Hopefully all the extra photos will add many thousands of words. Other minor details like plasti-dipping the intake, which by the way does actually keep it a little cooler. Painted the t.b. & lower collector, cleaned the lower & upper collector as well as the manifold (oil in the runners pre-catch can). Cleaned the whole damn bay.
Previously, deleted all the useless heater hoses & idler pulley, wrinkle painted the overflow reservoirs, installed the mishimoto baffled catch can & painted many bolts after cleaning w/an industrial ultra-high-temp flat black paint & fine artists brush.
Prior to this, installed kinetix v-plenum & h.f. cats, invidia dual, my own custom 4" intake which added 8hp. & 5ft.lbs. over a z-tube w/all other baffles deleted & drop in K&n (poor air filter took a beating trial fitting the intake), osiris software, lightweight wheels & tires, shift kit that I fucked up & needed to be bailed out of & I removed exactly 250 lbs. so far. Ran a 15 flat before much of this crap & believe I can get this pig down the 1/4 in the mid 14's @ this point. Looking for high 12's on the stock block & trans after rear mounted turbo or vortech but will be happy @ a very low 13.
Hope those who read this enjoy it & gain @ least something from it. Any questions, I am happy to oblige.
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