Miata 2: Electric Boogaloo
Yeah, better crimping, and more importantly, much better strain relief. All my failures have been strain related where wires are bending past what they can handle and its seemingly always at a transition point between sheathing and wire or at another hard junction where I didn't put in enough strain relief.
If you use a lot of DT/DTM/DTP connectors, get a bunch of these:
https://www.prowireusa.com/content/5...-026-0205.webp
They're cheap, and with a single aluminum/aluminum 3/16" rivet can mount pretty much anywhere, and barely add any bulk to the connector. I've made small brackets off fuel rail mounts, epoxied them to valve covers, even used a tapped hole with a small button head allen to mount them. All for the exact reason you're describing, harness stress relief.
If you notice on an NB (my favorite factory wiring design of the NAs/NBs), the main harness is mounted in about half a dozen spots by the time it gets to the crank sensor plug.
https://www.prowireusa.com/content/5...-026-0205.webp
They're cheap, and with a single aluminum/aluminum 3/16" rivet can mount pretty much anywhere, and barely add any bulk to the connector. I've made small brackets off fuel rail mounts, epoxied them to valve covers, even used a tapped hole with a small button head allen to mount them. All for the exact reason you're describing, harness stress relief.
If you notice on an NB (my favorite factory wiring design of the NAs/NBs), the main harness is mounted in about half a dozen spots by the time it gets to the crank sensor plug.
Yeah, I think my next harness is going to be mounted to a lot more spots on the engine, and be as close to fully sealed/booted as I can with a combo of the rubber DT boots and Atum on the backside of OEM connectors. I do have my harness currently zip tied to hardlines and such as much as possible, but there's still a decent amount of branches just loose and hanging out.
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