1985 IROC-Z BUILD #4. Wiring Nightmare! Can I get everything electrical working??
2024 ж. 7 Сәу.
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This 1985 Camaro IROC-Z has been off the road for over 20 years. In this video I install an electrical harness I bought off ebay since this car never came with one. Can I get everything electrical to work?
I also finish the exhaust off, it sounds awesome!
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Are you a self taught guy when it comes to cars ? You tackle anything with confidence .
On most stuff.
The rubber bell shaped plug on left side is for the blower motor,
Electrical. Everyones favorite.
If you lived closer, I have a very nice set of red and black door panels. It would cost a fortune to ship
Mr. B. Here ! 🍺🛞👀😎👍. To all viewers the mid 80’s GM cars I worked for Oldsmobile train at the GM Training Center , one thing we guys in the class show then that if anyone mess with these vehicles we would walk away . Lee you got one issue corrected wiring is not bad if you have trained for it . Vehicles that have been hacked run ! Emission systems suck ! Lee I tell you what my boss toll me take your time & stop at times walk away ! Lee one tip you have GM vehicles look at the components the color will be almost the same ! Interior wires are orange & white . If need help ask I’ll assist you !
Thanks. I'll eventually get it figured out.
I’d almost fiberglass the washer and coolant overflow plastic bottles.
@@jamespn too brittle, they'd just break somewhere else
As usual..I’m really admire your guts..nothing can stop you or makes you surround at all .. So keep going my friend.
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no project is too big for you lee 💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻 great work so far😎
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Great job Lee electrical is a pain in the ads good luck you got this
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Lee wiring is a pain. So, dealing with it would have me taking in tongues.Thanks for sharing! 💯👊👍
You, sir, are a much more patient man than I am! it would take me many months to re-do an unknown wiring harness on any vehicle! Nice work, Lee!
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If you can do an LS swap using the drive train, PCM, harness and EFI from a Silverado to a 68 Nomad, this should be a walk in the park.
I'll get it figured out eventually
Yeah motor sounds great gages got working again good job on the 1985 IROC Z build
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Making good progress. Great to see you offered Santa parts for his grandson’s Mustang.
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Good morning from Cape Cod ⚓ the wiring in those cars is absolutely a nightmare 😕 back in the early eighties to early nineties I used to build insurance wreck's, in 86 I got an 82 trans Am, that was enough headache for me 😂 I know you'll get everything figured out Lee. Keep up the great work and the awesome content 👍✌️🇺🇲
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What a nightmare!!! I love 60's and 70's cars wiring is so much easier! You're a trooper on that one,I think I would have shut the hood,towed the car to the parts section and parted it out!! Yes,sad but that wiring is what got a lot of those cars off the road too,they had some electrical problem and they gave up! Can't say I blame them!
it was a tough choice
You got this Lee
Much respect Lee. I hate doing wiring. No patience for it.👍
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🏁 Hey LEE I have to say that exhaust absolutely sounds awesome on that Camaro awesome job Lee!! 🇺🇲🏁🏁🏁😎🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁
Thanks, I think so too
Kitty such good helper😂
Great progress. I will be waiting for the next one. Good job Lee.
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I like the IROC glad you're doing something to it I had a 87 tuned port 350 love to see you fixing it up I'll be watching more episodes on it yours is red mine was black on black with gold trim
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I admire the fact that you tackle electrical, cause that is my achilles heel for sure, I do everything but electrical. As always, nice work and hope to see it running soon, by the way, my brother has a Camaro, I think it's 88. He might be junking it soon! I live in Grand Falls, New Brunswick, in case you might need a few parts, I'll make sure to ask him his plans for it!
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Looking good I hate wiring
I’ve got an 87 that needs wired up as well. It’s had a 5.3 LS dropped into it. Gonna be fun! lol. Thanks for all the info, Lee. I’m really learning a lot😎🤙
Sounds like fun!
hey lee great job sounds good
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sounds real good. nice job.
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Your doing a great job, you will figure it out!!!
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Many of the 80’s and 90’s Camaros and Firebirds up North here are completely rotten and missing their engines and transmissions long ago pulled for something else because the rust got so bad that the car could no longer be aligned or the doors wouldn’t close. That is when the driveline was ripped out of it. Like you said, most cars up here that came from the south or babied and only run in the summers might be original, lower mileage and good shape but most other examples still being daily driven are running on different engines and are a butchered mess for electrical systems, lots of Chinese replacement parts and sketchy rust repairs. The metal was thin and they rusted hard up north. Even a rough rusted up example still can fetch 3 to 4k now. A few years ago you could pick a rough one up for under 1k, they were considered worthless money pits to fix up because they had little value even if they ran and looked half way decent. Now they are coming back up in value slowly with this never ending inflation. Nice job getting it going and figuring out a lot of that electrical mess, that is a feat to do what you are doing.
True. Plenty of non rusty ones down here in the south but they're mostly like mine and the parts cars I have, butchered, beaten and worn out interiors.
Great work cant wait to see the video of it on the road.
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That hot wire that's on the alternator that's hooked to the stud goes to the hot lead on your starter the starter wire goes it back up to the hot cable
All you have to do is remove the ecu harness from the bulk and keep the part that connects to the driver side bulk head it should be the same pin out.
Hello Lee, if you can splice that LS motor into the chevelle this build should be no problem, I have a new extra set of Phillips sealed beam lamps 2 & 3 prong if you want them.
Thanks but just ordered some LED headlights.
I really like the work you do and I like your channel good job dude
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That flat black plug you were using temporary power from is the pigtail for the a/c compressor
Cool Lee you will be making an ohio state Iroc Z with the gray and red interior!! I cant bekieve you would have trouble finding a brain box if you have a vin for that vehicle ive sent away mine and had it reprogrammed to the specs and then use the obd sensor to tune it for carburetors they just require changing how ut reads the codes comouters can be fooled!! But, having seen you tackle this Iroc-z piece by piece you do pretty good kinda the MacGyver of Chevrolets!! Good used car salesman for sure !!
I haven't looked for another brain box since one was included with the harness. It's not going to be run by computer anyway.
The big plug in your hand that you said your helper did not know where it goes. Is for the ecu.
well, it's missing
Oh ya are hoing to do some murch shirts and hats i would buy some
Wow that's not easy omg good luck you do amazing rebilled car s 👍🇨🇦
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I feel for ya Lee... Years ago I had a '83 TA. At about 50K miles the computerized carb went out & the car would regularly stall in the middle of the expressway. They wanted $1200 for a computerized carb. I decided to bypass the computer, so I I got a new Holley 4B carb 80-82 pre computer & had a mechanic friend dial it all in & the car actually ran worse!! Yep you are correct, each year in the '80s the wiring, emissions, etc. & all the related BS. got more & more complicated‼
You didn’t remove the computer control distribute the computer keep adjust timing you need the vacuum hei that what I did the engine turn around
yep, sounds like you needed to replace distributor as well.
I know one of those plugs goes to the 700r4 aka transmission.peace
I don't think the transmission has any electrical on it, I'll have to check
@@clunkersandclassics if its a metric with lock up they have them if not they dont if it does its on driver side i bellieve its been so long since i worked on 1 sir.
Iv had newer cars with random pig tails that go nowhere . might of been a universal type harness???
I heard you came down from Canada welcome to the states my friend 😊
I've been here for 40 years and was also born American.
the only thing the harness from the left side controls is emissions . electronic carb, smog pump and the torq converter lock up pull the ecm and harness and get a non electronic carb. the computer control meetering rod and tps sensor are all specifically tuned through the ecm for fuel trim thus electronic carb will not run right without the ecm control. which in turn the need for non electronic quadrajet, all those loose wires are fo smog pump and vacum control selinoids.
the ECM part of the harness doesn't just disconnect from the rest
I hope maybe I can buy it from you but you need to hook up a/c
Fog light switch is under pull on headlights
I showed that but nowhere in harness is there any connectors for fog lights
31.27 time you touch the wire the attaches to the alternator with a nut i think.
no, that wire is missing.
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20.29 the other (white) wire is for the Tachometer
I hooked it up and it pegs out the tach
I can tell you this from 1984 to1987 They had two different Warren harnesses on the iraq z one was for v6 and one for v8
There's more than 2
Man I can't hardly sit still I had a 88 with a multi tune port injection and I put an 83 motor trans in it I used the wiring off the fuse box and everything worked all them wires on the passenger side I tucked down in I didn't change anything on the wiring but find a keyed hot even the gas gage worked gages and all
The problem is this car came with no wiring harness, so trying to make one work is like a jig saw puzzle.
What year is your C-4 and have you made any videos on it? I have a 86 and want to change it from injection to carb. and need a instructions video.
1985. I have a few videos on it, check my playlist.
Hi bud, how's the Chinese carb holding up in your El Camino
works good but don't drive it much as I take Nikki whenever I go out and she needs a back seat
Can I ask why did you use a engine from a 86 van in this build?
It was handy
Wiring makes my head hurt … ugggh
Are you going to paint it?
most likely but it'll be the last thing I do to it
The round plug by your starter wires is a knock sensor wire.
You almost got her licked Lee 😂
getting there!
Nnice work! 🍝🍝🍝🍜🍜🍜
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Bro, trust me, you're beating a dead horse there. You at the very least will have a unreliable car, and more likely a car that will probably end up burnt to the ground trying to make either of those TBI, frankenstein, non appl. harnesses work! Save your sanity and pull all of that mess out. Save them just for connectors if needed, and get yourself a aftermarket 21 circuit universal harness that has EVERYTHING you need to wire that car up. pAINLESS makes just what you are looking for and you can get it at Jegs. Look at the 10101 Universal 21-Circuit Classic Wire Harness, GM-Keyed Column Ignition Switch Connection, Customizable. Trust me. no thanks needed, I just hate seeing you struggle with something that is not going to work there.
I explained in the video why a universal harness won't work. It would be an absolute nightmare trying to get power windows, seats, cruise control, heat, ac, etc to work.
@@clunkersandclassics Honestly, with these kits it's very simple Lee. There are circuits pre wired for each of those accessories, each of which has it's own labeled wire. No guess work figuring what wire goes where, and everything works correctly. I've installed dozens of them in cars just like with what you are working with (cars w/o original harnesses) Just trying to help bud.
With the supply of SBCs running low you should think about getting the LS swaps down to a science. They're plentiful, make more power than a SBC, and get much better mileage. Just my 2 cents once again. Keep em coming either way. : )
LS swaps can get quite costly getting everything to adapt.
You should buy another harness for the temperature sending wire and then buy another another harness for the windshield wiper wire
Just get diff oil with additive in it for the limited slip. Also does not need to ac delco brand at all. Although here the ac delco is cheaper than motorcraft so if I don't use oil with it in it I'll use the ac delco additive in my ford. 14 bucks a bottle is alot better than 56. And who gives a shit on what brand it it. The diff don't care one bit.