Painless wiring switch panels

[southernsteel]

Alright, as most of you may know, my CA wiring is all kinds of hacked up and making my car not run. So here's a thought I had today while browsing a summit catalog. Why not hook up a painless wiring switch panel and hardwire my fuel pump, water pump, ignition and starter to the panel?

Easy enough, I figure. But what would I need to keep from my existing harness? Are there any issues I'd run into with this kind of set up?

No, I don't plan to install this myself. I'm taking my car over to a shop, but they specialize in the muscle car area, although they've done some import work. The wiring guy is really good, I'm just trying to gather up as much info as I can so that I know what's going on and he's not surprised either. I'd like to keep my headlights, tail lights, brake lights etc in the stalk and just have the switch panel wired to what I mentioned earlier.

I do have the FSM for the chassis and the engine, so that's not a problem.

[slw240sx]

did you do your harness yourself? most likely you did somthing wrong there and its an easier cheaper fix to have that done then rewire a car. those painless things suck on EFI cars and its not going to be cheap by anymeans to have a car rewired.

I have a DIY wiring harness on my car and i regret it more then anything else that i have done to my car.

Jon

[southernsteel]

Nah, I bought the car like this. The owner before me tried to wire it himself. I've been trying to figure out how to best get it to run. The same shop in my post quoted me at least 10 hours to get it running right with no issues, I'm thinking add on 3 to 6 more hours if they say at least 10. They also charge $89 an hour

I was just thinking I could hardwire the ignition, starter, fuel pump and water pump to the switch panel, but I don't know a thing about wiring, so that's why I'm asking about issues with the wiring.

I'm also open to having two harnesses re-wired, if someone knows how to wire a CA into an S14...
Modified by southernsteel at 2:15 PM 6/7/2009

[mazikowski]

...I was just thinking I could hardwire the ignition, starter, fuel pump and water pump to the switch panel...

Just felt I would point this out: Your water pump has wires? Are you using an external one?

[slw240sx]

is that what you are doing? if you have another harness at hand we can wire CA to s14, we have done every wiring senario already even 1an2J 240s.

i would need a s14KA harness and a CA harness.

Jon

[southernsteel]

Just felt I would point this out: Your water pump has wires? Are you using an external one?

No. It was something suggested to me by a local guy who does 240's. Maybe he assumed I was running an external water pump?

[southernsteel]

is that what you are doing? if you have another harness at hand we can wire CA to s14, we have done every wiring senario already even 1an2J 240s.

i would need a s14KA harness and a CA harness.

Jon

I'd much rather do that. Although, finding a CA harness has been proving to be a bit difficult lately...

And the fact that I need a new dash harness as the previous owner has the ignition wire cut in a couple of places