painless wiring harness for second gen

[71maroesteban]

Okay so I know very little about rewiring a car but with a name like painless how hard can it be I don't want to pay someone to do it for me I want to learn by working on my own car so how hard would it be do completely rewire my car with their kits?

[ChevelleNV]

You will need to understand some basic wiring, as none of the wires on the harness are terminated. you will have to terminate every wire on the harness and cut them to length. they do provide some instructions but they do not provide a complete diagram of the harness. on a scale of 1-10 of difficulty ill give it a 6. the instructions can be a little confusing at times, my suggestion is to look at the instructions for the kit you are considering buying.

I myself have done about 4 cars with these harnesses, they will get more difficult if you have to wire up non factory stuff in the car and make small modifications to the harness. if you are hesitant on terminating everything you may be better off with getting a complete harness.

the nice thing about the painless kits is that you do get extra long wires which allows you to route wires where you want and the flexibility to wire up non factory accessories as opposed to modifying a stock style harness.

[rickpaw]

You may want to consider American Autowire harness. The kit has instructions/wiring diagram to show you how to it. But you still have to cut the wires to length, and terminate them. From what I've heard, AAW kit is a bit more user friendly compared to the Painless kit.

I put AAW Classic Update kit in my 67, and ended up modify/remove 50% of the wiring kit since I swapped in an LS1/4l60e combo.

[71maroesteban]

You may want to consider American Autowire harness. The kit has instructions/wiring diagram to show you how to it. But you still have to cut the wires to length, and terminate them. From what I've heard, AAW kit is a bit more user friendly compared to the Painless kit.

I put AAW Classic Update kit in my 67, and ended up modify/remove 50% of the wiring kit since I swapped in an LS1/4l60e combo.

thanks ill check them out how's their pricing?