[Birdman98]

So my son and I started working on the wiring last night. Holy crap what a disaster. EVERYTHING that wasn't factory was twisted and taped. Zero solder, zero shrinkwrap, zero butt splice. There were some scotchlocks though. Yikes. We rewired a bunch of it, cleaned it up and soldered and shrink wrapped it. Still have a bunch to go but we are getting there.

The best was his wiring when he switched to the 1-wire GM alternator. It has an aftermarket battery gauge inside, so he had one the post wired to a piece of knob and tube wiring (that was bare about halfway down it....) twisted and taped to another piece of wire into the car to the gauge and then back out of the car to where I haven't traced yet. The plug wire was routed with the female spade connection stuck on the end of the wire and wrapped in tape, not crimped at all. Then it wound it's way into the car and onto the power block on the fuse panel.

We also pulled about a mile of speaker wire out and some other random wires that were abandoned and arc'd to the body. Yikes.