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You stepped in and judged my ability to swap, simply by my CHOICE of doing a plug and play harness as opposed to your method. You continue to question my ability, and that's fine.
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I didn't intend to judge your abilities. You can't judge someones abilities before they attempt to do something, right? If it makes sense to word it differently, I believe that learning more about something (in this case EFI) before jumping in is a good idea, if not mandatory.
My "method" as you call it involves learning. I don't really see how anyone can deride learning, not that you necessarily are, just that it is being assumed I am saying 100% the only way in this case is to use the stock harness. I could care less if someone decides to go with a Painless harness (or whatever) as long as they have done the research to see what they are getting themselves into, as with any swap.
It all comes down to an informed choice, opinions from any angle help people make up their own mind.
I know full well if we were discussing this face to face, it would be a much friendlier conversation the whole way through. Internet provides a very easy way to misinterpret peoples mood and intentions.
There are more things anymore that I will gladly pay people to do, but working on vehicles isn't one of them. That is one (of many) areas that I personally believe there is NO ONE more qualified to work on your vehicle more than yourself. Sure, most of us can't fabricate large parts, or have the tools to build a roll cage, but the simple fact is, in my opinion, no one gives a darn about how your vehicle runs or looks like you do.
I know probably one person besides myself I would trust to work on my vehicles, and understand how I would want things. When I look at some of the aftermarket harnesses, or chip burners (and this is only for one component swap!) I see it plain as day that many of these people/businesses are not concerned with doing things "my way", or concerned with much more than "good enough". It may work fine (and some harnesses are pretty good) but if it isn't done the way I want it, I couldn't be happy with it.
If I had to get my rig running from carb to EFI in one weekend, I guess I'd consider a plug and play harness. But I'd never put myself in that sort of situation, because thats the way I am.
After doing this swap, I can say that the learning curve is STEEP on these setups if you choose to delve into them. However, the rewards of knowing how the system worked paid big dividends for me later on. I had the "luxury" of taking my sweet time though, and I didn't have a TBI harness to start with.
I do like the idea of the add-on harness for the TBI to TPI conversion though. It should be pretty simple, so hard to mess up on their part, and an easy addition to what exists, hopefully for a very minimal cost. I assume doing the TBI to TPI re-wiring yourself requires running a few more wires, if the add-on wiring is done right, there is no reason not to run it. Saving the hassle of cutting, splicing and connecting the new wires has to be worth a few hours worth of work, no matter how simple the TBI to TPI re-wiring is.
Seriously, if anyone has done a similar swap using the stock wiring (whether carb to EFI of TBI to TPI, etc) it would be nice to hear from them whether they thought it was worthwhile to learn what they did by doing everything themselves.
Maybe there are people that feel differently than I do about it, but I just don't think you will find people who will complain...I think you'll hear that even though it was hard, it was still worth it.
