How to Hide wires Trans Am WS6 Camaro Firebird
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- Опубліковано 19 сер 2024
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Wanted to clean up the underside of the hood on my trans am. This is something I have done on several cars I have owned and really like the outcome. This is an easy project that doesn't require a ton of time or tools.
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I just did this on my 98 Camaro really cleaned it up. I used 1 3/4 hole for the passenger side and it was a perfect fit nice and clean. I would say that’s the smallest hole you could go with.
Definitely cleans up the look
Using split vacuum line RTV'd into place makes some nice sheet metal hole edge guard. Keep up the great work!
Great tip. Thank you Scott
I have a 98 trans am. And i am going to do that now. Always hated those ugly wires. Thanks for the video. Really informative
Nick Vh thanks for watching. It will look 1000 times better when you are finished!!!
TWA Motorsports i bet haha. When i cam swap my car this year i will be able to remove that air injection crap but for now i will have to let it sit there and be ugly lol.
I just did this and i ran the hood release cable through the hole above the screw hole at 6:22. You can see it above the screw hole . You will still need to run a drill through it for a little more clearance but it worked good. Nice video.
Tirefryer91efi good call thank you
Excellent video. I've read online instructions on how to do it but your video gives a really good idea of exactly how easy/difficult the job is and about how long to expect it to take.
Thank you. You will love how much better it looks.
Awesome idea. I’ll definitely do your idea when I got a little free time. Great job! I never liked that messy layout on 4th gens. I believe every generation prior has Under hood cleaning up potential whether it’s electrical, vacuum lines, etc as well.
Thank you. That's for sure. Newer stuff just covers in plastic
I've been meaning to do this to my 97 Comp T/A since 08. I just need to get off my ass and do it. It really does look a lot cleaner. Nice vid man
Thank you. It does make the engine bay look better. Get out there and start lol
Very nice. The famous wire hide mod. I definitely want to do this. My buddy did this to his black 2002.
DarrenWS6 thanks. I think it looks less cluttered.
I like the idea definitely! Looks slot like my 02 WS6 I went and paint my dipstick head red and the letters black coated all the stickers with a see thru red also. So I will definitely do this too. Thanks!
Sounds like a nice ride Greg
Awesome thanks, I have a hotckiss tvs with koni shocks all the way around I figured it would sit low. Looking forward to seeing the clearance video.
If I could get some good weather it would already be done. Snow sucks lol
I always tell myself I will do it but I keep putting it off haha. I think you have given me the motivation to finally do it! Good vid and clean bird
MD Motorsports thank you. Cleans up the look a lot.
Im definitely doing this! Ive always hated the way the wires on the passenger side looks the way its ran from the factory!
It looks way better
Cool video man. Once I put my 02 z28 back together I'll definitely be doing this.
Thank you. It really cleans up the look under the hood
Looks awesome I’m definitely gonna do it on my firebird you made it seem really simple always like your vids very detailed
Thank you
Definitely a cleaner look. Beautiful car
Thank you.
Thanks for the video man. Ive got an 01 WS6. I've always been curious how this was done. Please keep the videos coming! I'm very interested to see how the air injection pump and all that comes off. My car has headers on it but still has the air injection stuff to that stuff really clutters up the engine bay.
Austin Anderson thanks for watching. I did the video on air injection removal with the header install. If you already have headers you will need to buy or make some block off plates.
oh man i know what you mean as far as putting that liner back up, what I ended up doing after getting frustrated with it, was making the holes in the liner bigger so I could see where they line up on the inner fender, then just added an appropriately sized washer to the bolt.
Yeah I use a light to find the holes. It sucks.
I’m about to go jump on my trans am and do this .......shouldn’t take a few hours my inner fender are pretty clean already ......might run me like 30 mins .....I appreciate the idea and now you got my sub lol
Thanks man. It looks so much better when finished. Should have been like this from the factory.
Yeah I did mine already I kinda got carried away sanded and painted the openings ....put the carbon fiber liner I had laying around ........and scrubbed and waxed where it was at...........but it came out great.....what’s your email or how you dm on here an I’ll show you
@@amordeweso I bet it looks awesome. Twamotorsports@hotmail.com
Great idea. Make the shock tower weaker and run the wires where they will corrode faster.
Thanks for your amazing thoughts. I'm sure others will find it helpful 👍
Great video most definitely worth the subscription!
Thank you 👍
I had a 98 trans am for 10 years. Sold it in 2016. I really regret that decision now 😬😬😬 the values are way up. Got ahold of a mint condition 2000 z28 though 😎
I get that
I just come across your videos and I'm new to your Channel great videos keep them coming.
Thank you Mark. I really appreciate you watching and commenting
Looks great. I'm definitely doing that to my 94 Pontiac trans am. I'm a neat freek so hell yeah awesome...
Thank you
I have a red t/a also, Doing this for sure! Thanks for the vid!
It really cleans up the look under the hood. Thank you and Thanks for watching!
Great video, keep them coming! Very informative and detailed on what to do.
Thank you. More to come for sure 👍
Nice work
Thank you.
Looking forward to doing this!
Cleans things up
Hi again;I completed the passenger side of hiding the wires and it looks great.Not sure on how to do the drivers side 'Air Injection Line' could you tell me how you did that? Thank you Wayne and Sandra from Simcoe Ont. Canada
I sent an email. Shouldn't be too bad.
Looks good, go Dubs
Thank you
Muuch better. Excellent job explaining how to tuck the wires, what were they thinking with that rats nest? Lol. Time to browse craigslist for a 4th gen..
Thank you. Yeah they just tossed it in there lol
I like a clean engine bay,, looks fairly easy
It will make it look a lot cleaner.
Thanks for the good 💡
Thanks. Hopefully it helps.
im doing this exact thing now on my 02 camaro also thinking about relocating the battery and the fuse box
I have done that with the battery
Looks good man.
Thank you
I could not get to the Wheel Sensor Wire cause my headers were in the way from moving the strap attached to the fender
Yeah it's a tight fit in there. You should be able to just barely reach it.
Good stuff man!! Keep it up!
Thank you. I will for sure be posting more.
Definitely worth the time!
For sure
Looks great man. Especially without the mess of that cruise control module and cables. Did you delete it yourself?
Thank you. Yes did myself. On traction control cars they have a controller behind the battery. Mine is non traction control car so it doesn't have that. You can still do this and move that controller behind the computer.
Looks very very nice, but I'll pass on mine I don't like drilling in the body, I haven't even done the fuel pump door under the rear carpet 😅
I probably will be doing a trap door at some point
I am however fitting 4x6 headlights, and I will be cutting and drilling onto the headlight assembly to make them fit
I also installed rear air shocks to aid in ride high, and shortened the shifter , I also installed custom fog lamps using the oe brackets xD I really like my firebird it's my daily driver
Great video. One question tho, once you get the wiring underneath, couldn't you push those clip/pins at 1:58 back in from the underside?
Thank you. You might be able to
If I put those wires in the inner fender here in the U.K. my car would stop working soon due to water ingress. I wouldn’t recommend drilling the strut towers either, they are structural and it would fail inspection
this will not affect the structure of the strut towers. It also is not open to the elements as it is under the liner and all weather pack connections.
Killer content
Thank you
What to do with the exposed holes now, any method of plugging up them up other griniding, welding, and repainting that looks halfway decent?
I am going to paint mine. Some weld up some leave them. I am in the process of just leaving them and repainting the inner fenders
Thank you for the video. It is very informative. What does the vacuum line on the passenger side go to? I have been getting conflicting answers.
Not sure which line you are asking about
In the video, you pointed out a a vacuum line in the wiring harness that is over the passenger side fender. Its at the 2:05 mark. I have been trying to figure out where both sides of that go @@TWAMotorsports
Goes to vacuum canister on the lower frame rail
Awesome, thanks man. Appreciate it@@TWAMotorsports
You're welcome
What did he do with the headers that he had taken off of the T/A ??JUST wondering if he would be interested in getting rid of them?I could use them and would be interested possibly buying them if the price is right?would put on 2000 trans/Am looks just like the one that he took them off of.
Does the harness on the passenger side being run on the underneath cause the fender liner not to sit flush any more?
No it's still flush.
Sweet. I was just curious if it pushed the liner out since the harness was now in there. Thanks!
@@libbytaylor620 you're welcome 👍
Do a door panel video to prevent the door panels from cracking
seabass wish my driver side wasn't cracked or I would. Need to replace it.
In the video you mentioned removing the secondary vacuum line or something that goes in the side of your air box. Mine has aftermarket headers on it but still has the tube going to the side? How do I delete?
Remove and retune computer
@@TWAMotorsports is it worth removing and do you gain anything?
Weight and looks
So what'd you end up doing to the vacuum line you unplugged? Did you leave it unplugged and had it feed through the hole as well with the rest of the wires?
Behind intake? Capped
Hey by any chance have you ever done a led headlight installed trying to figure out how to do it 😀 ??
I haven't on this car
With that passenger side harness and the triple plug(s) that are there, is that harness still needed if going with aftermarket Holley ecu? I’m about to finish pulling mine and making some new content and wanted to ask you. Thanks brother.
Some are if you are retaining abs
Like to do that to my 02 ss
Definitely cleans things up
Awesome video! I've thought about doing this, but what are the chances of the harness getting damaged under there?
Thank you. No real issue because the plugs are under the fender liner.
Looks clean man ! Love the vids ! Can someone please tell me the name of the module or w.e it is that the throttle cable and a coupe more cables connect to. It normally sits right there behind the battery and I’ve noticed that you and a bunch of others have deleted it. Do you have a video instructing how to remove/delete it ?
It's for traction control cars. A lot of people relocate them behind the computer
Would this work for the 3.8 v6 version?
Should be close to the same
Is your ws6 lowered? If so are there any issues with the second set of long tubes hitting the ground?
It is lowered. No issues so far with clearance but they do set low. I am going to make a vide soon with measurements and clearances 👍
Is this safe to do if I daily the car thru rain and stuff like that?
It is still protected by the inner splash guard
Does the hood latch cable just kinda hang in place under its own tension or did u have to tie it down? Maybe the fender liner just holds it in place after its bolted down
Kinda just hangs there. You can secure it if you'd like
It will rust very soon. Put some pait on those cut metal peaces!!
I did that recently when I painted under the hood. 👍
WS6 OOOOOOOLALA
lol
Stupid question but what are those wires for on the passenger side? Never got in to the harness yet but I doing a Holley terminatorX swap and didn’t know what those were for.
Abs and fans
TWA Motorsports thank man! Keep up on your videos. And in love with your car and how clean you make everything.
Thank you
Where is the video on removing air injection? Thanks
In header install video
TWA Motorsports thanks! Will this turn the check engine light on?
It sure will
Hey TWA do you know which of those 3 harnesses are for the fans? I know its not the middle one, its either the top or bottom if you know it'd help me out alot
They are and for abs
Not sure which though
@@TWAMotorsports appreciate it anyways, i been asking everywhere
Had a question pertaining to the engine bay of your car. I watched pretty much all the videos but I think I missed the one apparently were you pull the motor out. Did you personally go through and spray the engine bay or did you have that done professionally? If you did it yourself did you get the paint color of the RPO codes? I know some stores sell the specific red for GM that appears to match very closely, just curious as to how you went about doing so. Thank you keep the awesome videos come in please!
I had a video of the motor pull and paint. I used duplicolor and clear. Not professional but way better
TWA Motorsports awesome man. She’s clean for sure. I’m getting my supplies together to get my new to me F-body cleaned up. The rerouting of the wiring harness is next on my to do list. Thanks again!
You're welcome. Good luck on your build
It’s time for some new Trans Am Videos!
I agree. Tell the parts suppliers
Is there any concern about the heat from the brakes cooking the wires?
No as they are still behind the fender liners
@@TWAMotorsports awesome thank you so much! What a clean job
@@alcaicco1779 you're welcome 👍
Is this water safe?
Its protected by the liner and you could wrap it for extra protection
Very helpful video, especially the hood release side - a lot of guys don't bother with that. Check out my channel with the build of my '98 Formula WS6 1LE I'm in the middle of.
Shit yeah sure it looks more clean . but whenever you need to replace those wires and hoses you have to do a double job taking of the tires and covers and lifting the car up. Nah I am ok.
I've owned several of these cars and never had to replace those parts on even 200k mile cars.
@@TWAMotorsports yeah you are probably right. 👍. To be honest the car look cleaner bro.
@@TWAMotorsports my trans am has 240k and I have never replace those wires yet.
@@TWAMotorsports anyway good luck in your TA ws6 proyect .
@@frankiehati8285 thank you
Ha! My car is even better! 2002 firebird base model v6!
*cry*
V6 gang, lol. I have a 1998 firebird 5 speed
@@dylannoack nothing wrong with that
@@TWAMotorsports Wish I had a LS1 with a T56
@@dylannoack that would be more fun
@@TWAMotorsports Well when your 18 and only had $1100 to spend on a car, V6 makes a lot of sense. Atleast its full leather interior
This is happening to my 00 WS6!!!
Definitely looks better
@@TWAMotorsports do you have any issues with water? I don’t drive mine in the rain but I have been caught by surprise several times
No but don't drive it in the rain
Great vid man thanks
Thank you