E Z wireing?, anyone every try EZ wire harness for 914 Options

[Calwaterbear]

getting to the point where i will be starting on Electrical, and I am scared to death of the German wiring - not much good at electronics anyway, and looking at 45 years of degradation.
My buddy has used EZ Wire Kits
http://www.ezwiring.com/store/
in several of his projects, essentially pull out all the wires, put in the EZ wire system. 18 fuses, 21 circuits, all the wires are color coded and labelled every 5 inches, you just take the appropriate wire to the correct location, and attach it. That sounds a whole lot more appealing that trying to figure out german wire diagrams, and chase down what is almost assuredly multiple shorts and ground issues.

Not interested in Historical accuracy - restoring a junk yard find to fun driver, canyon carver! so reliability counts alot!

[wysri9]

OK guys - its time for the big reveal! Like many Brits I marvel at the American's ability to share on these forums. The generosity of time and sprit displayed so often is heart warming. We Brits are far too reserved for much of that.....

Anyway this question resonated strongly with my own experience and therefore I thought it time to come clean. In another thread I will start to reveal pictures and details of my rebuild. Its another 914-6 GT replica but with some twists. Anyway more of that elsewhere, here I wanted to add my two pennyworth on electrics. I am deleting headlamp motors, fuel injection, heater and radio. I want to add master cut off, heated windscreen (the heater replacement), USB charge points and other niceties. So my thoughts were to discard the rather unpleasant bundle of harness retrieved from my 1975 2.0 and replace with all new.

I too have battled with the various forms of wiring diagram which are available, and decided given the changes to original spec that starting from scratch would be the best solution. Now I fully recognise that what I have drawn up is not as efficient as the factory harness. There will be some extra cabling here and there, but at least I will understand it all. I have also added complication in the form of additional relays to protect some of the old switches mainly (e.g. column stalk).

With the help of a friend with great electrical expertise we have come up with a scheme which I hope will work well. The plan is to use limited colours (for power, control and earth only) with unique identification coming from coding imprinted on the heat shrink at very connection. The heat shrink solution is well known in industry.

I attach the latest revision of my plan, and would welcome any comments from that vast knowledge base that sits out there. Throw as many stones as you like - I am a thick-skinned Brit and want to do the best job possible. As I develop coding and my wiring schedule I will share more.

Hope this is of interest.

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