Hey folks im currently building my rst pickup from the bare shell and not really wanting to put the manky old loom in so does anyone recommend a company that would make me a new loom!! im gonna have to chop of the plugs that plugged into the old mfi ecus anyway so might as well get something that looks good and wont got tits up in a few years

 

I think there is a guy on here that makes looms up, but cant remember his name.

 

ryan? car looms uk?

when i spoke to him he wasnt really interested in making one as they are a hell of a lot of work and wouldnt warrant the price tag

what sort of loom are you looking for? just a remake or a motorsport stle loom?

 

i think zetaboostboy does custom looms,and not sure i got it right but a place called mws im sure il be corrected?

 

just a remake if poss!! im not interested in anything that is gonna cost a fortune but everyone knows what old looms are like

 

How hard would it be to say, make my own loom for xr3i cab?

Car is stripped to shell, and complete standard loom is bagged up neatly rolled up.

I could just make another identical next to it? With a few tweaks of my own, and obviously new cable.

How long d'ya reckon it'd take? 3 days start to finish? I think so for an amateur...

 

i personally wouldn't bother. how would you troubleshoot a loom you made yourself? would you buy 30 reels of wire to make them different colours? if you even had 10 reels you'd have 2 or 3 duplicates. not good when troubleshooting.

pay the money, get a reciept. theres a reason there are people making a living specialising in it.

 

i'm inclined to disagree. if you're proficient with wiring and in particular the terminations side of things it can be a very good idea. with a decent wiring diagram and either the car or an old loom to take measurements from it can be very easy to make a new loom. all you need really is access to the correct cable and connectors.


regards

Tom

 

fair enough, but it'd still cost alot to sort all the reels and source the connectors for 1 loom, if you had to buy them in packets at a time the cost could start spiralling.

 

good point but how much would a custom one cost if you could find someone willing to do it? plus in my mind there are two big plus points, 1 you know it's new and will work as advertised and 2, there is a huge amount of satisfaction in doing it yourself. i'm not trying to have a dig, i just think if you can and want to then why not build you're own loom?

 

not sure,but i thought some guy made em up on oddkidds site,may be worth a look,but some wernt cheap tho.......

 

The guy I use does pro looms and always interested in doing one off stuff, actually prefers it to the "boredom" factor of same one all the time, made for some very famous names in all forms of motorsport inc F1.
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