So I've pretty much completely rewired my car after doing an engine swap. I ended up with a bunch of relays and wires for my Holley Black electric inline fuel pump, dual fans, and tach. So I started running my wires from the connectors and relays and zip tied them together to make a harness. Then I shortened them up once I ran them where they needed to go. I was also changing the heater core so I had to get into the ECM and remove it anyway. The car still works perfectly with the ECM removed. I think I want to wire the fuel gauge up and delete all of the stock wires other than those for lighting. Has anyone done this before?

 

Also, the car is carbureted now so I don't have to worry about any of that. My fans don't use any of the stock wiring because my car had a mechanical fan. I had to wire up the sending units and that's all in my harness as well. I wired up my distributor myself as well. So I think everything in my engine compartment is stand alone. That's why I want to get rid of all the old wiring I don't need. Once I have it all, I'll see if anyone wants to take that stuff off my hands when I know what all I have.

 

my car has been running for the last few years on a painless fused switch board. This summer i plan to go through it and remove all the unecessary wiring to clean it up a bit. How deep are you planning on going?

 

I'm going to make my own gauge cluster by buying the gauges and fabricating a dash out of a sheet of aluminum. I plan to delete all of the stock wiring possible and make my own. I'm going to wire everything myself. I already have my fans, fuel pump, and tach wired into a switch in the cabin. I'm going to wire my stereo to my accessory switch in the ignition. Pretty much I'm going to delete everything and run my own and make a diagram for it all.