I just received the Painless 20121 harness that I ordered from Summit to re-wire my '67 Mustang and have to admit I'm a little disappointed...
Some background. Car is a resto-mod w/ fuel injection. I was tired of tracking down ****ling electrical issues, so bit the bullet a few weeks back and decided to re-wire the car to get rid of the 43 yr old harness.
So after a lot of reading, I compromised between a "generic" Painless harness and buying the harnesses one by one through the Mustang resto shops by going with the 67/68 Mustang harness from Painless, expecting it to be at least somewhat vehicle specific and from the description appeared to be somewhat "pre-terminated".
What you get in the box, is anything but pre-terminated. The only terminations made are for the cluster and the turn signal connector, basically everything else is either an unterminated wire, or a wire which they terminated into a insulated spade connector (meaning you have to cut the factory connector off whatever you're attaching to and replace it).
So I'm really torn at the moment. I really like the factory connectors from the standpoint that you can't mess it up, but I would really like to avoid doing more cutting and splicing than necessary. That said, I understand there's some merit to cutting off the old connectors and putting in new from an electrical standpoint...
The thing I guess that is most frustrating, is what does the extra $150 to $200 over one of the generic harnesses really get you???
Anyways. I could certainly use the extra circuits (power windows, power locks), but really don't want to have to re-engineer the wiring harness to make it work (speaking on a generic one here and some of the GM/Ford uses that appear to have to be dealt with).
Can anyone offer an opinion on the "factory replacement" harnesses sold through the resto-shops? Are they good quality and in your opinion worth the money???
Not entirely sold on not using this harness, but guess I wanted to get some feedback on the other options out there.
Some background. Car is a resto-mod w/ fuel injection. I was tired of tracking down ****ling electrical issues, so bit the bullet a few weeks back and decided to re-wire the car to get rid of the 43 yr old harness.
So after a lot of reading, I compromised between a "generic" Painless harness and buying the harnesses one by one through the Mustang resto shops by going with the 67/68 Mustang harness from Painless, expecting it to be at least somewhat vehicle specific and from the description appeared to be somewhat "pre-terminated".
What you get in the box, is anything but pre-terminated. The only terminations made are for the cluster and the turn signal connector, basically everything else is either an unterminated wire, or a wire which they terminated into a insulated spade connector (meaning you have to cut the factory connector off whatever you're attaching to and replace it).
So I'm really torn at the moment. I really like the factory connectors from the standpoint that you can't mess it up, but I would really like to avoid doing more cutting and splicing than necessary. That said, I understand there's some merit to cutting off the old connectors and putting in new from an electrical standpoint...
The thing I guess that is most frustrating, is what does the extra $150 to $200 over one of the generic harnesses really get you???
Anyways. I could certainly use the extra circuits (power windows, power locks), but really don't want to have to re-engineer the wiring harness to make it work (speaking on a generic one here and some of the GM/Ford uses that appear to have to be dealt with).
Can anyone offer an opinion on the "factory replacement" harnesses sold through the resto-shops? Are they good quality and in your opinion worth the money???
Not entirely sold on not using this harness, but guess I wanted to get some feedback on the other options out there.