Wiring Complete

We spent this past week finishing up the wiring. My complements to YnZ for the great job on the wiring harness. They really made this an easy job.

Early in the project, we made the decision to replace the original wiring harness. The previous owner was selling parts off of the car and cutting the wires to remove the components. Between the missing and short connectors, the fact that a bunch of cutting and welding was going to take place, and a whole bunch of splices and bare wires, we made the investment into a new wiring harness and yanked out the old.

Back in July 2005, we pulled the wiring harness throughout the car. At the time, I really thought that this was going to be a mess. It was actually really easier than I thought. All of the wires came out to the right length and to the right locations. All of the connections were well soldered or crimped. Only a few connection had to be changed from a bullet connector to a spade or vice versa - minor details. A nice detail is that the wires all match the original color codes.

The documentation from YnZ leaves a little to be desired. If you use their documentation along with a color wiring chart, you can figure it out. If you add in Joe Leoni's reference books, it gets real easy to figure out what goes where. Cyberwerkstatt also has a nice site for 356 electronics.

We complicated things a little by replacing the wiper assembly with a T6 wiper assembly. I also received a quote from Palo Alto Speedometer only to find that all of the gauges were junk and not worth rebuilding. YnZ also added for me a 3rd brake light connection so that I can install a LED brake light in the engine grill from Top Serve.

It's kind of cool now to turn out the garage lights and light the garage up with the car.