Harness swap?

[woodnbronze24]

My life is a mess!

I am new to the DSM world for starters. I bought a 95 gst about a month ago and the week after I bought it I got hit by a Fedex truck going 50 . He hit me in the pass. door so the motor is still perfect. My insurance did not cover the damages and in Mi it is no fault.

A few days ago I found a 95 Talon tsi with 66k miles with a blown motor for $1000. Score right!? It looks like thing are looking up.... Well, I started pulling the tsi motor and I noticed what I believe to be a 6 bold swap. Whoever did the wire splicing was horrible because most of the connections are just twisted and taped.

Here are my questions:

(Keep in mind that I don't know the specifics for doing a 6 bold swap)

1) How difficult would it be to yank the engine harness out of my gst and put it in the talon in place af the rigged one thats in it? It is even possible or should I just remove the spliced plugs for the 6 bolt (injectors, etc) and solder the 7 bold plugs in.

make sense?

2) I also noticed that the fuze/relay boxes are different on my two cars. The text on the outside is white on one and blue on the other and some of the items are in different places on the label. Could this be because of the swap also?

Thanks for the help in advance guys.

 

[DSM AWD TSI]

I have never messed with a DSM wiring harness but I did help my friend with his 240sx RB25DET swap and for that he needed to splice the RB harness to the s14 harness kind of like what you're describing. To remove the harness, it may get difficult to pull it through the firewall and around tight spots, but if you are going to have the engine out anyways, it might not be as bad. However, since you are saying the splicing is done horribly, you might as well remove both engines from both cars, then move over the 6 bolt harness plugs one by one to their respective locations and then nicely solder and tape them or whatever suits you. Personally, I would just do it the second way. Hope this helped and good luck!
EDIT: Oh, and you may also need to mess with motor mounts and stuff like that if they don't match up, but you can just follow what was done to your GST to get an idea of how to do it in the TSi. And, if the TSi is AWD, the 7 bolt transmission for the TSi will not match with your 6 bolt engine.

 

[rush2252]

search "six bolt swaps" youll find tons of info. Alot of your wiring woes can be solved by finding pinouts and color codes of both cars wiring diagrams and ECU pinouts. 2g 6 bolt swap is a new member but he swapped a 6bolt into a 95 awd TSI he could probably lend some insight try PM him

 

[woodnbronze24]

Here are the different relay boxes. The first one (blue font) is on the 95 Talon TSI w/6 bolt swap. The second one (white font) is from my 95 Eclipse GST. Why are they different? I really would like to know how hard it would be to just pull out the entire harness from the eclipse along with the motor and throw it all in the Talon or would it be easier to splice the 7 bolt plugs in from my Eclipse?

Thanks guys