Hello guys just wondering what is a rate brake line tucks and wire tucks go for just to get an average price in labor?? Thanks
your looking just for brake line tuck anywhere from $400 to $700
wire tuck is intense so $650 to $1500 depending on what kind of wire tuck
all of that is including labor mind you
to do it yourself you looking at half the price
damn were u get ur tucs at
or you can save that wasted money and put it into useful parts:clap:
sorry im hating. tucks are nice but so useless.
Ye I know! Lol but I already got lot of decent parts once I do my build thread I will post everything !! I just like the clean look of a tuck engine
[QUOTE=redtegra;2219465]or you can save that wasted money and put it into useful parts:clap:
sorry im hating. tucks are nice but so useless.[/QUOTE]
It is not a waste of money. Sure if you get fancy with all the looming and sheathing and heat tubing it can get really pricy. For most of the wiring you can use the wrap, then place it in tubing and finish it with 3M Super 88 tape. With the OEM clips and connectors it costed less than $150. If you don’t mind tearing the car down and spending a bunch of time with it you can get a nice tuck for not a lot of money. One of these days though I would like to redo the engine harness like DB63 did, definently looks great.
Don’t mind the zip ties, waiting on my Honda stuff to arrive so I can get it clipped in.
One more question! To do a obd-0 to obd-1 conversion is it better to do the harness jumper conversion or do the actual harness conversion?? What’s the diff??? Between the jumper to obd1 or the actual obd1 conversion
why what prices do u have? i didnt see you give any helpful info to the fellow g2 member
[QUOTE=Deceptakhan;2219471]It is not a waste of money. Sure if you get fancy with all the looming and sheathing and heat tubing it can get really pricy. For most of the wiring you can use the wrap, then place it in tubing and finish it with 3M Super 88 tape. With the OEM clips and connectors it costed less than $150. If you don’t mind tearing the car down and spending a bunch of time with it you can get a nice tuck for not a lot of money. One of these days though I would like to redo the engine harness like DB63 did, definently looks great.
Don’t mind the zip ties, waiting on my Honda stuff to arrive so I can get it clipped in.
thanks!!!
lots of time mostly… took me about 12 hours to build my engine harness…and i was going to use milspec plugs but decided not to becaue of more time…oh btw they sell those rubberized metal clips now at harbor frieght just a fyi if you looking on the cheap
i didnt give info cuz i had all the supplys when i did my tuck already. but ive never heard of guys spendin that much to tuck a bay.
that includes labor… i spent around $175 and did it myself… people usually dont do that kinda stuff for free…
if i were to buy the wilwood mc and the firewall bracket that would be another $100 on top of the $175 but i made my own
i understand that but tsill thats crazy labor prices but it all depends were u go hopefully u get the quality u paid for
I have to say that 700-1500 for labor is fair depending on what you want done. It is a TON of work. I had BLCKACK and MrPenny put in about 25 hours each on this tuck, I spent another 2 weeks 4 hours a night sorting and looming and verifying etc etc. This probably doesn’t count the tear down, taking the drivetrain out, ripping the interior out, waiting on parts etc. Not to mention being responsible if a wire gets pinched/ something doesn’t work right. I have done this once and couldn’t do it again if I wanted to without help, it does take a certain skill set.
i know its a hell of a lota work thats y i said i hope the job is worth what u paid for
have you ever looked at rywire and chasebays? just a harness alone is anywhere from $600.00 to $1100.00
don’t forget garages charge any where from 70-100$ an hour. so i can see that as being more then reasonable.
A wire tuck and brake line tuck are definitly some of the worst trends in the auto lanscape and are a complete waste of money on a street car!
- They make your car less reliable
- Renders your car more difficult to repair
- Renders your car more expensive to repair
- Renders you car less safe
- It reduces the resale value of your car
- Don’t make me go on…
Flush money down the toilet, more fun and better spent!
I understand where DB-R81 is getting at, and now the cons are out. There will always be pros and cons to everything needed/wanted to be done to or for your car. Do not let this comment detour your decsion. Do more research and ask more questions. If you decide to go for the wire tuck, the rules are similar to building a custom turbocharged car. Make sure you dont half step, do it right the first time(avoiding trial and error) and most definitly, make sure you find someone who is confident in his work and is reputable to do the job, if you decide to hire someone that has a good reputation of what they’re doing.
I want this thread to continue so I may learn a little more about tucking. So does anyone have a price range on a partial wire tuck, something not too extreme as a full tuck?
I don’t know if I would trust ANYONE to cut and splice my wires. With that being said it is possible to to it reliably and without adding resistance that will negatively affect the electrical system. If you don’t know how to solder yourself, I would learn and do it yourself. It’s the only way you can possibly know that it is done even remotely correct. If you do take it to a shop… a good question to ask is if they know what a cold solder joint is. If they don’t… RUN AWAY… RUN FAR…FAR…FAR AWAY.
I do have to agree with Marc on this one to a point. It’s a fad that is WAY out of control. Especially since so much money is spent on tucking when that money could be much better spent. “Oh look… it’s a stock B18A with a wire tuck” :bang:. Performance always beats out looks in my humble opinion. That’s not to say I don’t care about looks, it’s just I’m more about the go than the show. Once the go is there… bring on the show. Or when you perform your go mods, make it show at the same time. And above all, a fun, running, untucked driving car will always be better than a tucked, slow, or worst case non-running car.
Tuck carefully.
Look at this way Honda/Acura employes thousands of brilliant engineers who spend countless hours and are paid umpteen dollars to design these cars containing systems that are accessible, repairable and are able to be disassembled with minimal amounts of labour and tools. Their work is documented and collated by other countless technical writers into shop manuals so as others can understand and repeat their design, process and disassemble.
Abruptly some know little backyard hack gets their paws on their daily driver and decides their going to re event the wheel and do a/fuck, sorry that was tuck on their car.
Tuck is done and car is driven across town or better yet across the state to grandmas house by hack a year later. Hummmm… car won’t start in the morning, no tools at grandmas apartment, can’t leave it here cause it is sitting in the visitors parking, need to get to work on Monday morning, well hack decides they will just pay the local garage to fix the electrical problem.
Good luck with that, our beloved backyard hack better have a boat load of dollars and a very forgiving boss cause they are not getting to work on time Monday morning. When the local garage has it towed to their shop and takes one look at it they say sorry we can’t fix this clusterfuck, we can’t even understand how it ever ran, next.
Hack now wonders why they ever messed with their car in the first place and decides to toss car and purchase new one. Leave your electrical and brake systems alone!