Wiring a motor...

[Vicinity]

How difficult is it to wire a carbed motor? This includes headlights, starter and gauges (and whatever is necessary to get it running).

I realize this may make me look stupid, but I've never wired anything other than speakers. I'm honestly confident I could tackle this and do it, infact, I want to buy the car to learn how to do EVERYTHING myself. I just don't want to buy the car with the intent to do it and never be able to finish it because it takes forever.

The car I'm looking at needs the front end finished (I don't think the radiator was installed (can't remember clearly), doesn't have headlights installed, and has no interior. It IS all new sheet metal (which is why I'm really looking into this). It's got a 400/M4 installed.

[2Bad4Ya]

It's not that hard really. American autowire and painlesws wiring make prefabbed wiring kits for most cars, and depending on the car you can usually find a wiring diagram/manual online these days.

I completely removed the wiring from my 68 in around 1 hour and was able to put in a new wiring kit the rest of that saturday, and i am not keen on messing with wires.

[Vicinity]

I may just be retarded, but I Googled for wiring diagrams and cannot understand them at all. I mean, I can follow them (some of them) for the most part, but there's no clear explanation of what some things are or some of the acronyms.

[astroracer]

The easiest thing you can do is get a pre-fabbed harness for your car. There are a number of excellant kits out there as mentioned above and you do not need to be able to read a schematic to install them. They come with excellant instructions and you shouldn't have a problem with the install.
Mark

[Vicinity]

http://www.kwikwire.com/wh_22Circuit...ml#largeimages

I found this, I'm assuming it's all I need?

[John Wright]

Is the factory fuse block still in the car? If so...you just need the engine side of the wiring harness to wire up the front of the car from the firewall forward....this harness plugs into the back of the fuse block and runs forward out to the farthest connection....probably the pass marker light or something like that.

It is easier to lay it out on the ground beside the car and get an idea of where it all goes beforehand then it doesn't seem like such a big job.

[chevyhector]

I re-wired my 68 Camaro with the American Auto wire kit (power plus 18). I have never attempted to do such a large project, but their schematics were very simple to understand. I will definitely use their product again on the 73 Camaro project that we have going. If you can install a audio system, you will do fine.

Hec

[Vicinity]

Whats the difference between these 2 packages?

http://www.americanautowire.com/67-68camaro.html

http://www.americanautowire.com/powerplus20.html

[John Wright]

Whats the difference between these 2 packages?

http://www.americanautowire.com/67-68camaro.html

http://www.americanautowire.com/powerplus20.html

The first one has alot more to it...ie. includes all new switches and appears to be specifically for the 67-68 camaro.

The second looks like it is a generic fit-all for 69 and later cars.