I have a question about using the stock subaru harness. I know there is quite a bit of talk about dieting the harness and remove a ton of wire, but was thinking of approaching this differently.

What about keeping the harness in the same approximate orientation where the ecu would be at the inside of the front firewall, the headlight and front turn signals would be up there without needing to extend them (or at least not much). Then either extend the factory ecu harness to the engine in the rear, or purchase an extension for that harness. If you take this approach wouldn't most connectors, and switches be in their approximate location without having to pare it down?

Has anyone considered or done that? Any thoughts? Perhaps this is too simplistic of an approach, don't know enough about this yet.

Thanks
Glenn