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by AsmaraHolding 43 days ago
I’m developing X/D Loom (https://xdloom.com), a tool that helps car enthusiasts create automotive wiring diagrams.

About a year ago, I engine-swapped my Nissan D21 hardbody from the Z24 petrol to a TD27T turbo diesel and also installed a whole bunch of accessories, like spotlights, a winch, and an air compressor. But being lazy, I didn’t write down any of the wiring changes I made while doing all of this. So fast forward a year, and now I can’t remember how all the wiring works.

My current project car is a Jeep Cherokee FSJ, and for it, I want to build a completely new loom from the ground up. So to try and avoid making the same mistake I made with the Nissan, I Googled “create automotive wiring diagram”, but all the results were for complex enterprise grade solutions charging $200/month. That’s why I created X/D Loom as a project car guys' tool for creating wiring loom diagrams. It allows you to drag different electrical components onto a canvas, connect them with wires, and export them to a PDF or PNG.

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Since you're trying to product-ize and might want to expand the market a bit... aviation might be a nice market. There's a whole culture of people who build light general aviation aircraft under the "experimental" class of aircraft.

Most kits come with wiring suggestions for standard things like fuel pumps, lights, etc but once you get into avionics the options are essentially limitless. A quick Google search has a few reddit threads of builders talking tools and it ranges from AutoCad ($$$) to some type of drawing software like MS Visio.

Cool product!

My son and I are about to tear into a 1987 Wrangler. This is going to be very helpful when we're undoing 40 years of modifications on this thing.
Awsome. I'm planning on adding the Edelbrock Pro-Flo 4 EFI system to my AMC 360. One feature I really want to add to the app is prebuilt templates for popular aftermarket EFI, ECU, and Digital Dash setups from Holly, Edelbrock, Haltech, and Dakota Digital.