Painless wiring kit.

[brad131a4]

I was just wondering if there would be any interest of the site members for me to post pics of when I wire up my 77 spider this coming winter. I'm going with a 18 circuit universal kit and installing a stand alone fuel injection kit with it. This is coming about as I need to fix some body issues that are coming to light from a previous restoration on the car. I think it would be easier than trying to modify the existing harness to remove all the unneeded wires.Thoughts?

[So Cal Mark]

by all means, please document your conversion with pics if possible. This would be of great interest to many forum members

[greggl]

I'm going with a 18 circuit universal kit and installing a stand alone fuel injection kit with it.

Drop me a note as well... I'm going to be doing this over the summer for a carb'd 1972. No center console, radio, most
of the courtesy lights are going, etc. I'm taking it down to the bare minimum.

[Curly]

I did a similar thing when replacing all the wiring in SPYDUH, thanks to a short-circuited and burnt out original wiring loom. But I started with a RHD 124 BC Coupe loom from which bits were added and subtracted. A great learning experience, quite frustrating though with the way some components (wiper motor for example) are wired up.

[racydave]

I had my adventures last spring when I installed my custom dash. Yes there are alot of items unecessary, and I still have old wiring in the dash. I thought it to be very usefull to bring a new 10 gauge wire from the batt, with a breaker at the batt, and fused legs at the dash, instead of everything goin via the starter. It all got isolated, insulated in heater hose. Also brought up a new ground wire for the new ign system. I would like to have re-done it all over, but wanted badly to get her on the road, but its all good! Also lost that darn hazzard switch! I wire police and emer vehicles daily, and still, the Fiat was a challenge. http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1182/555 ... 9ee7_o.jpg http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2191/206 ... 39f0_o.jpg

[brad131a4]

I would say that some of the inherent problems are also contributing to the rewire to. I can't figure out why the car is wired the way it is but then I gave up on wondering what they were thinking long ago. I want to seperate some of the things they have wired together and have them on separate circuits for better performance hopefully. As in headlights , wipers and whatever else I run into.

[Pick]

I would be very interested in hearing and seeing your experiences with the Painless kit also. I've been seriously considering it after fighting with the rats nest of twisted, wire-nutted, taped and crimped "connections" that I found under the dash of my '78. I've got 2 complete spare harnesses from other '78's but after pouring over the wiring diagrams and tracing many of the circuits in an original harness, I'm beginning to believe that a fresh, modern re-wire is probably the best solution.

Especially since I'm planning on a MegaSquirt & EIDS setup, the rats nest of emissions related wiring and other 'repaired/modified' wiring looks easier to replace as a whole rather than try to adapt what's there. Or, for that matter to replace & adapt with a known intact harness which still has it's own as-manufactured issues. And a modern fuse block would also be nice

Please keep us updated.


Jay