I am gonna redue my wiring. I was looking at Painless or EZ2wire. I heard good things about both companies. Can anyone help out? EZ2 is cheaper so it looks good to me.

Howdy. I have a pdf of the stock diagram if you'd like. It might help. Have not done what you're doing, but Painless always seems a very safe bet! Good luck, Scott

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66 Fairlane GT
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Hi.

I logged on with the same question as I'm looking at replacing the harness in my '66. Poking around other boards uncovers a lot of discussion regarding the different vendors/products. The hotrodder board has had a sticky going on this topic for 4+ years and their polling results show no clear leader:

http://www.hotrodders.com/forum/wiring-harness-78997.html

Back in 2005 "BrandonMiller" offered a list of links there that I've checked, edited, and augmented. Hopefully these prove helpful rather than making the decision more difficult?!

Some decent technical considerations at the links found toward the bottom of this page:
http://www.autorewire.com/

Some venders:
http://www.hotrodwires.com/18Circuit.html
http://www.centechwire.com/index.html
http://www.ronfrancis.com/
http://ezwiring.com/
http://www.painlessperformance.com/
http://www.itsasnapwireandcable.com/
http://haywireinc.com/

Some install "experiences" (or extended product advertisements.....):
http://www.rodandcustommagazine.com...35_0310_rewire/
http://www.alanhorvath.com/54chevy/ezwire_day1.php
http://www.4wheeloffroad.com/howto/131_0309_bron/

Let us know if you find someting that makes one seem most appropriate for our cars. I'll do the same.

Haven't gone that route myself, but the wiring is a mess on my convt. so I pay attention when someone posts their experience. Here are a few excerpts, "I used a Ron Francis kit on my '69 Fairlane. It's a good bit of work, but I feared having wiring issues like that especially since some parts of the original harness had been hacked up. "

"I'm putting a new Ron Francis harness in my Cobra replica as we speak. I looked at Painless, but not only was it more money but it is based on a GM harness and adapted to Ford. With Ron Francis, tell them what you have and it comes all set to go for a Ford, not some GM harness adapted to fit. I am very happy with the harness and with the assistance I need and get from the folks at Ron Francis."

Good luck,

Scott
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67 Fairlane 500 Hardtop, 796 hp 514, C4
66 Fairlane GT Convt, built 390, Toploader www.bulletpruf.9f.com

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Originally posted by scotta66gt:
Howdy. I have a pdf of the stock diagram if you'd like. It might help. Have not done what you're doing, but Painless always seems a very safe bet! Good luck, Scott

email mystylesthebomb_at_yahoo.com

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I second Scott's input. I installed a kit from American Autowire. The Highway 22 series. It is also based on a GM design so there is a lot of "making" it work. It was less expensive than the Ron Francis kit, but looking back on it I should have just spent the extra money and ordered from Ron Francis so they could build it to fit the car. I like my wiring kit that is in it now because I can add additional stuff later, but it was a pain to begin with.
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1966 Fairlane 500 Conv't
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I just did my 64 with a Ron Francis kit. Never wired a car before and it was so easy. Everything is marked and the instructions are good. They give lots of wire in the kit.

A couple of things did come up though. The wiper switch with the kit is on and off with no park, I had to buy a new switcch. Heater motor, interior lighting wire are add on kits. I just used the extra wire in the kit. IF want door switches those are extra.

Overall it was way easy and I will wire the next project with Ron Francis.

Pete
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64 2dr Sedan, 418W, C4, 3.70, Street/Strip, under construction

Derek, diagram sent, sorry for the delay! Hope it helps. - Scott
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66 Fairlane GT
Daily Driver / Survivor