Preferred wiring harness
 

What is the best option? I had a painless but sold it.

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get another one. why get rid of it?

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I have a Painless in my truck and I have a painless in my race car also. They are not the cheapest for a reason. They are nice and well thought out.

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I'm happy with painless. Summit Racing had the best price when I bought. Part 10206.

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Have been using M&H wire harnesses all along.
All plug and play OE style, and the customer service is very good.

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I have the American Autowire Classic Update kit. Check all the websites for the above kits and this one, then do the reviews.

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M and H or American Autowire are exact duplicates of OEM and are plug and play. Don't waste your time with anything else.
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M and H is too expensive for me. Has anyone used EZ wiring harness here is a link
http://ezwiring.com/wiring_harness.html, I am looking at the one that is $185.

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I'm having a Keep It Clean harness installed in my 67 currently, because thats what the guy doing the install asked me to get.

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I have a Painless...it wasn't. They don't tell you, until you open the box and read the instructions, they don't supply all (some but not all) of the factory plugs or bulkhead grommets and the headlight portion of the harness is split at the headlight plugs, needing to be "butt" splice connected, crimp connectors supplied by them. I am not a fan of "butt" splicing. Soldiering and heat shrink tubing is the only way to go.
I got a good deal when I bought it from Summit. I think I paid $365 and Painless was giving $100 back.
I spent an additional $100 - $150 on other wiring supplies: heat shrink tube (four different sizes), nylon braided wire loom (two different sizes), several sizes of nylon wire ties, grounding kit from Summit/Ron Francis (ground buss, heavy braided ground strap and misc. ground wire), several (four) relays and several (6 - 8) watertight connectors.
Don't skimp on dedicated grounds for all of the different devices in your electrical system, individual lights, alternator, gas tank fuel level sender, radio, air conditioner...you get the idea. If you have a goofey electrical problem, it's a ground.

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I used EZ Wiring in my project truck and liked the kit, considering it was a universal kit. For a universal kit and the money it costs me, I thought it was great. All wires were labeled and I had plenty of wire length for each section going to the front and rear. It did come with the plug for the column also.

I have never used the Painless or American Autowire so can't comment on those, although I have heard good things about them.

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Do you guys sell EZ Wiring? If so PM me a price please.

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I have an E-Z wire kit in our hot rod was good quality .and good customer support.

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I'm using american auto wire in my 72 if i can do it anyone can def a good choice

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I am usally a believer in you get what you pay for but I am leaning towards the E-Z harness due to price.

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I had a painless and sold it because my factory harness is in good shape. What I have learned from my LSx swap is, there are not enough additional "ignition on" circuits in the factory harness. I would like to see a harness that contains all of the original circuits with additional circuits for fuel injection equipped trucks. I like the way Ron Francis kits are not pre-terminated so that you can install only what you need. With the 18 and 21 circuit kits you end up with extra wires tucked all over the place. Seems to me there is room to improve what is available for the after-market.

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I used the american autowire in my build, great quality and service, much better than the painless imo.

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Board member Wes, at Classic Heartbeat, got me the M&H harnesses and beat the prices that M&H has posted on their website. Give him a shout.

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I called and spoke with them since they did not list a kit on the site. The guy was not helpful and told me I just need to price each specific harness off the site and it supposedly cost $800 plus. Since he didn't want to help I didn't persue it any further.

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??? Wes, who is the owner, is probably the most knowledgable and helpful guy on this site. Please dont judge him on one call.
Btw, I got my AAW Classic Update kit from him, its great. Plenty of extra circuits for whatever, as well.

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I did not call Wes I called M & H. I have nothing bad to say about Wes.

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No, unfortunately we do not sell EZ wiring. Just American Autowire & Painless.

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M&H is the manufacturer... They will be the first ones to tell you that they prefer you to buy from places like Classic Heartbeat, they will not be selling the product cheaper than their distributors.

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I realize there are a lot of companies that price things higher than a distrubutor but the guy just didn't want to help at all and shot me a price of $800 and something.

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Get the AAW Classic Update kit from Wes. You will thank me.