I need to install my wideband/EGT tomorrow and I'm trying to figure out the best way to run it from inside the car down to the downpipe. I would like everything to go though the passenger side rubber grommet that is next to the battery. However, trying to get it from the battery area down to the DP seems a bit tricky, best option I can see so far is running it though one of the smell holes leading to the wheel well, then tuck the wires behind the rubber undertray follow the fuel lines down then cut over to the tranny.

Is that a yay or nay idea?

also is there any options on the drivers side to get into the engine bay?

 

I don't have any pictures I don't think but I ran my wires through one of the rubber things between the battery and the engine compartment. I cut the rubber and neatly pushed the wires down in the rubber.

 

you need to do some research before posting Surly that has been addressed in a previous forum use the SEARCH index it help me out alot.

 

I did search and a lot of what came up wasn't worth a damn for what I'm looking for.

its easy to push the wires though the rubber thing, but how do you get it from the battery down to the exhaust? I don't want to half *** it and just throw it over the battery compartment, I want a nice clean route that allows for everything to look stock.

 

I ran both my EGT and wideband wiring through the shifter rubber boot. Much easier to run stuff to the down pipe and other piping right under the car.

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I drilled A 1/2 inch hole in my battery bay put in a rubber thing so it would not rub and ran the cable behind the intake manifold and throttle body down to the exhaust real easy if your looking from the bottom of the car up.Use Zip tie to secure away from hot areas that is the exhaust.

 

I went through the driver side, there is a similar grommet by the steering column, and then you can go straight to the downpipe. I mounted the a/f on the top side of the downpipe, about 2 feet after it leaves the turbo.

 

I like the idea of using the drivers side since it would place me away from a lot of the exhaust piping(wastegate) and would make it so I wouldn't have to extend the wires. at least not as far.

Map sensor and HKS VI will go through the passenger side rubber grommet, and if things goes as I plan the EGT and WB will go on the drivers side.

 

when i installed my aem wideband i found a little rubber gromet above the steering colum it is a pain in the ash and when i say that i really mean it it goes rite to the bottom of the fluid compartment on the drivers side its there its jsut hard as hell to see and get the wire threw good luck and the next best way to do it is down threw the shifter area.

 

lol, after putting together 3" piping for my turbo kit, feeding a line through the rubber grommet is nothing.

 

lol i know what u mean i just installed my TN it was so so but yea its there you got to look a lil bit for it but its there

 

Its not bad if you stick one of the flexible push button grabber thingies through it first haha. Idk the real name but its a flexible metal tube (about 3/16" in diameter, 2/12 feet long), one end has a button that you push in that extends a 4 pronged claw at the opposite end, when you release the button the claw retracts and squeezes whatever its holding. so push it through the grommet from the inside, have someone push the button and put your wire in the claw (or tie it on), then just pull it through. easy as pie.

 

I ran mine through the rubber boot on the passenger side that goes through the battery compartment. If you go that route, some Silicone may be helpful to seal it off from water dripping into the ECU/UTEC. I haven't had any issues with that, but a few others have.

 

Once you're out of the battery comp, just run them along with the factory wires running down to the transmission area.

 

Hey Jeff if you do run it thru the grommet at the battery def put a bunch of silicone around that grommet as i found out it leaks into the pass compartment if you do not.

 

That's good advise. I'll be doing the same. Thanks.

 

hey you puting the wide band before or after the turbo

 

Wide band is going in the downpipe where there's supplied bungs.

I went ahead and ran the wires down the shifter. That seemed to make the most sense. Now I need to wire everything.

fun fun fun.