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!

[JeffBowlsby]

Its an insane proposition to try this once you think it through.

The 914 has 75-85 circuits in the chassis harness depending on the model year and around 185 individual wires. That means that that a given circuit will have several wires linked together by wire terminals, in the same circuit. You need to figure out and make all those additional wires. Consider what gauge of wire is needed for each circuit, to say nothing of its special color/striping if that is important to you. It will be when you trouble shoot it. What about the special relays and relay bases you need?

Think of the dash lighting circuit. It may start out as one wire to the fuseblock, but daisy chains to several dash gauges. A 20 circuit generic harness does not even get you close.

Further, think about how the harness will connect to all the standard equipment like the turn signal and wiper switches, and lighting sockets. They do not all use 1/4 in female terminals and good luck finding all those rare terminals.

Check out the rats nest at the headlight switch. You want to replicate that?

Advise that either you find a good original OEM harness of the same model year as your car, or have a new one built. You will be $K ahead if your time or resale value of the car is worth anything to you.