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cole930 cole930 is offline
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Jesper,

Good to see others starting to do their own projects. You'll be fine. Some suggestions I might make as food for thought. Pick your central location as the interior floor or the trunk. The trunk works well and probably has easier access but I found the interior easier to work with when ringing and running wires.

The 12,13,14 thing is nothing other that wire size, referred to as wire gage, the smaller the gage number the larger the wire.

1. I got all my terminal strips, ground bars, and fuse blocks on Evil Bay.
Able to buy everything from 1 source, reasonably priced, great selection
quick shipping.

2. Keep consistency of color for power switched (16 gage red), grounds
(16 gage brown), power unswitched (16-18 gage black) everything else
18-10 gage.

3. Use all stranded wire and soldered connections.
(1) main ground (isolated from body ground) wire from Batt. Neg. to a
wiring chassis grounding bar and from the wiring chassis grounding bar
to a trunk grounding bar. Run all new engine compartment components
grounds to that trunk grounding bar and all new interior component
grounds to the chassis grounding bar. Make this main ground wire a min.
10 or 12 gage.

4. Run 2 wire bundles 1 to the trunk and 1 to the dash from the wiring
chassis. Add 3-4 spare wires in each bundle as spares. Put the wire
bundles in looms and pull the looms to the dash and the trunk.

HOPE THIS ANSWERS SOME OF YOUR QUESTIONS GOOD LUCK !!!!!

Cole
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