Wire Harness Market 2019 Global Leading Players, Industry Updates, Future Growth, Business Prospects, Forthcoming Developments and Future Investments by Forecast to 2025 | Auto Wiring Harness

With the help of friend and fabrication expert Derek Bower, the two reworked the factory soft top. They lowered the center bow then angled the rear bow forward to get rid of that "late 19th century carriage" look of the stock top. The side curtains were a rare find added by Stevens after his purchase of the car. They were in rough shape, needing lots of work to get them to their current state. The final exterior touch came in the form of 17-inch American Racing five-spoke wheels.

The introduction of the C4 in 1984 offered the first Delco-Bose stereo system. Although much more expensive, this was an instant hit with car buyers and showed a growing desire for premium audio systems. In the aftermarket audio world, CDs were replacing cassettes. The 1997 model year saw the first C5s and the first options of factory CD players and 12-disc CD changers, although the radio with cassette player was still available until the C6 debut in 2005. By then, compressed digital music was growing exponentially thanks to Napster and the iPod.

Installing Detroit Speed’s Selecta-Speed wiper kit is completely plug-and-play, including connecting the two wiper door motors.

Additionally, machining undercuts and cavities in pistons comes with many more difficulties than are associated with casting them. One of these is the different thermal properties associated with casting materials and billet. According to Ramirez, once the two pieces are welded, even with the use of 5-axis machines and lollipop endmill tools, it was difficult to reach the underside of the crown of a piston to cut the cavities. Ramirez turned to San Diego CAD/CAM technical support specialist Trevor Bailey, who showed him how Mastercam CAD/CAM software (CNC Software, Inc., Tolland, Conn.) could help solve his problem.

When I bought my 2015 Ford F-150 I quickly searched out the best aftermarket upgrades for my new work truck. In particular, upgrading the stereo in a Ford F-150 XLT work truck would get me Apple CarPlay. Unfortunately, at the time, the 4″ stock Sync 2 radio remained the one thing I couldn’t upgrade. No one made a replacement dash kit—something that changed in the last year. Now, no less than three manufacturers make aftermarket dash kits for the F-150. So, armed with this newfound information, I set about to decide exactly which car receiver I wanted to install. Having worked with the brand before, the obvious choice quickly led to installing the Pioneer AVIC-W8500NEX.

Before dropping in a powertrain or doing any suspension work, Murkijanian started by sending the Corvette off to a body shop in Downey, California, called Cardona’s to have its owner, Dave Cardona, work his magic on the fiberglass. He began by skinning the whole body in fresh fiberglass, which then had to sit for nine months before making more tweaks, filling it, and then letting it sit for another nine months. The whole body and paint process was by far the most strenuous part of the build, according to Murkijanian. But eventually, the early C1 Corvette was ready for paint. He decided black was the color this car would wear, so Cardona sprayed the car in a single stage black urethane from Glasurit. "The paintjob is probably the nicest paintjob you’ll ever see on a ’54 Corvette," Murkijanian told us, "hands down—everybody says that."

A: Probably not. Your factory speakers should be able to handle the extra power and still produce good sound. Test them by sitting in your driveway and turning up to a high volume until they start to distort. That is their upper limit.

Crutchfield lets you indicate what model car you have, then shows you want units are compatible with it — just as though you were shopping for parts for a PC or Mac. It also shows you what wiring harnesses and adapters you’ll need to restore the high-tech features. There are detailed instructions and, if you buy the components from Crutchfield, you can even have a technician on the phone while you do the installation yourself.

The leading players in the market are Sam Dong, General Cable Technologies Corporation, REA Wires, Zhengzhou LP Industry Co., Classic Wire & Cable, Priority Wire & Cable, Inc., Southwire Company, Asia Pacific Wire & Cable Corp. Ltd., Novametal Group, Termomecanica, Nexans and Axon Cable. The major players in the market are profiled in detail in view of qualities, for example, company portfolio, business strategies, financial overview, recent developments, and market share of the overall industry.

All 1968 GM cars, with a few exceptions, dropped vent windows in favor of Astro Ventilation and some with hidden windshield wipers. The 1968 Corvette led the way with the most complex vacuum driven arrangement where other GM cars had the wipers hidden under an extended hood reaching rearward over the cowl. Looking back, it’s easy to imagine the switch from electric to vacuum-powered actuators was a cost-cutting effort by The General ordering a platoon of bean counters to cheapen things up.

This machine may be the poster child for capability creep, a perfect example of our age’s obsession with progress. The Ram is also a stunning piece of engineering, a tow rig that’s just as fascinating as anything you’d throw on the trailer behind it. Looking at its spec sheet got us thinking about another moonshot Chrysler: the first generation Viper. Its 8.0-liter V-10 managed 400 hp and 450 lb-ft of torque when it debuted in 1991, figures that were good enough to rip the car down the quarter-mile in 12.9 seconds. The Ram’s 6.7-liter I-6 turbodiesel Cummins engine puts the Viper’s power numbers in the dirt, but what about that last bit? Could we get this massive, one-ton pickup down the drag strip as quickly as a Viper without doing anything under the hood?

All those precious noises I missed came bouncing off the pavement and into the cabin. That clatter like an old friend, the whoosh of the mammoth turbo. It’d been hours since our first run. The track surface was now stone-cold, but I could still hear the tires sticking to the layers of spent rubber as I rolled into the burnout box once again, the stale-wine smell of the track prep deep in my lungs as the back tires got to spinning.