95 dakota SBEC to 88 SMEC wiring

[bfarroo]

I'm going to be digging in to this in the next day or two. What do you guys think will be easier. Take out the entire SBEC wiring harness and try and splice in the SMEC or take the SMEC and wire it up as a stand alone to just run the motor? I got both of the wiring schematics off autozones website so hopefully they're accurate. The SMEC harness is from a 88 Shelby Z if that matters.

Benji

[derek502]

When I get ready to do my turbo dakota I will use a turbo minivan underhood harness. I was told it will be long enough for the headlights and other items.

[bfarroo]

I ended up splicing in the 88 smec harness, that allowed me to leave the non engine wiring alone and not have to worry about things not matching up. I got a tbi and 88 smec harness diagram off minimopar.net and used them. there arn't many wires that match up but what I did was label every wire in each plug with it's current location from 1-60. Then using the wiring schematics started swapping the smec wiring over to the sbec plug. with a pick tool you can pull the red section out of the front of the plug and then release the wires from the plug. Some of the wire locations had to be drilled out of the sbec plug since they didn't have a wire in them originally. I should have swapped everything over to the smec plug since the sbec plug has different tabs on it that don't allow it to plug into the smec and only about 5 wires stayed in the plug. I just ground the tabs down with a grinder and it fits. I had to cut and splice some wires together but all in all it wasn't to bad, just time consuming. Some pics are located here

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Benji