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Originally Posted by retyler
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Murff has rewired several hotrods so maybe he will jump in......
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I missed this thread so I guess I'm a little late to the party.
Have you accomplished your rewire yet? Which way did you chose to go?
I am a little fussy about wiring so I understand about your comment about your buddies boat being HIS boat (so he had to do it HIS way). I'm like that too.
I have used the Painless harnesses with very good results and I cannot speak to the other kits that are available. Can't speak to vendor support either because I have never needed to use them. So far my wiring has been limited to street rods and basic race cars, no multi stage nitrous or turbo controllers. Looking forward to doing some of those tho'. They pay well!
I will say that not all wire is created equally. Part store or industrial primary wire is crap to me. Just too brittle for my liking, and the colors and tracers are too limited. Not to sound like a Painless commercial, but when I did the 2nd rewire of the Falcon (moved the fuse / relay block to the trunk) I had to 'stretch' some of my circuits. I bought individual Painless wires from Summit to do this. Their TXL stuff suits me.
As the others have pointed out rewiring a car like your Merc' is going to be a pretty straight forward affair whichever way you go. I am sure it is going to look exactly the way you want it to when you are finished and I hope you will post up some pics.
One of the things I like to do to clean things up is to hide as much underhood wiring as I possibly can. Ford factory underhood wiring looks like poo to me and anything you can do there will have the greatest visual impact.
Good luck and let me know if there is anything I can offer.
Oh yeah, here's a great source for all those connectors, zip ties, and distrbution blocs you might need:
Del City - Wiring Products and Professional Electrical Supplies
