Ignition switch wires Heating up and blowing fuses

[zippakilla]

Alright so a little background on this.

Its a 1989 240 with an RB25det. Was an Auto to manual swap. I finally got the car running after 3 months and it was running great. Took it in to paint it. put it back together drove it around notice when i hit a bump the RPM's would drop, Pulled up to a stop sign and the car died.

I have juice to the dome light the head lights and all that non sense but when i put the key in and turn it on there are no dash lights (clock works) no seat belt movement no fuel pump Nothing.

Try different batteries nothing. So i tow it home and start looking and its the starter switch 30A fuse on the passenger side fuse box. I traced it back and notice the White plug it goes to under the steering column was turning black around the wire. I put in a new ignition switch and i started it and felt the wire was getting hot along with a Blk/Wht wire. so i figure its the 12v constant grounding out somewhere instead of tracing it down i ran a new wire straight from the fuse box to the switch. Nothing changed. I know people have had this problem but i didnt see any clear explanation as to how to fix it. thanks for any help.
Modified by zippakilla at 10:58 AM 8/11/2009

[zippakilla]

no one?

[navysnail]

did you have to cut and splice wires for the at to mt swap? if so how did you connect them? the correct way is soldering them linearly and then shrink tubing them. any other way could cause a short or ground, which might be pulling too much current.

[zippakilla]

They are soldered and taped/heatshrinked. It is wierd that this has just started happening i drove the car for 2 weeks then painted it and drove it the day i put it back together and poof.

[rbforsale]

youve got a (power) wire grounded some where.

[zippakilla]

Thats the thing the constant power or the WHITE wire i clipped just a few inches off of the fuse box and spliced in a wire straight to the inside harness (that way i didn't have to keep searching and unwrapping my loom). ITS STILL HEATING UP. The other wire BLK/WHT is heating up as well and im trying to trace it out to where it goes not really having alot of luck their either.

So no one else has had this problem???