HiloDB1December 5, 2013
#504499Any wire tucked LS430?
Anyone ever do a wire tuck, shaved engine bay in an LS430? Looking for info =)View original BBCode
Anyone ever do a wire tuck, shaved engine bay in an LS430? Looking for info =)
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Anyone ever do a wire tuck, shaved engine bay in an LS430? Looking for info =)
i know mike/og had talked about and started working in that direction on a ls400... but theres a lot of components and electricals in these big bodies. i don't think it'd be very easy
i was going to do it, but i was going to remove almost every accesory/comfort and run a heavily modified motor. with all the electronics your best bet is the oem covers.
Anything is possible. Like OG stated, you might have to remove a lot of the accessory/comfort sensors and what not. Or you can keep/re-wire the oem harness to go into new places by keeping all the comforts stuff, relocate the fuse box and stuff, unless you want a VW/honda shaved tucked bay. Where it looks like the motor is just floating in the engine bay. Honestly just seems like a pain to do all that when the car comes with OEM covers.
Honestly I love having my bays tucked but I would never do it to my LS430. I was planning on doing it to my old GS but like the others have said you will have to remove just about everything comfort related. Normally when we do tucks all that is left is a custom engine harness wired for the basics to run the engine and then the wiring for the lights and fan. the fuse boxes and relays are put under the dash so that will have to be removed of all ac/heat and whatever extra after doing all of this its kind of like why have a luxury car. I would only do it on a full race car and maybe full show car and even then you want to enjoy it when you do drive it.
i want to do this to my Q when it's no longer a daily driver, but it always feels like more trouble than it's worth. plus, i don't want to ruin the lines with the hood popped at shows... haha