American Autowire Harness

[Hawko]

Guys I'm looking at replacing my wiring harness in my 65. I'm thinking of buying the American Autowire Harness kit whilst the dollar is good.
Has anybody used it or got any opinions, good, bad or ugly?
Cheers Dave

[muzz67]

Do not know that brand Dave, I used a Painless 14 circuit kit from Summit.
Cheers
Lance

[Dynamic]

Do not know that brand Dave, I used a Painless 14 circuit kit from Summit.
Cheers
Lance

sorry to hijack but I was looking at using painless and have only read good things about them how did you find the harness?

[Hawko]

I looked at the Painless but I liked the fact that the American Autowire comes with some of the switches and plugs.
The American Autowire is about $700 AUD delivered at the moment. The Painless harness I was looking at was a bit more expensive from memory.

[muzz67]

My Painless was specifically for a '67/68 came with all the plugs, plus the different set up for the various steering columns all the fuses and blocks as well as relays 20121 was my part number and I think the 62:66 was 20120. And was about 700 from Summit

http://www.summitracing.com/search/?key ... tang&dds=1

The sparky that did the install loved it...

[ozbilt]

I have used most of the brands & I will rate them in order of best to worst (of the ones I have used)

Painless = 10

Ron Francis = 7

American Autowire = 5

Cal rewire = 2 (do not think in business anymore).

All are Chevy based in their thinking, the cheaper ones using a Camaro fuse box (least they were).

[Hawko]

Ozbilt. When rating the harness what are you rating?
Quality, ease of use, time taken to install, reliability?
Is it worth paying the extra $200 US for the Painless in your opinion?

Cheers Dave

[ozbilt]

Ozbilt. When rating the harness what are you rating?
Quality, ease of use, time taken to install, reliability?
Is it worth paying the extra $200 US for the Painless in your opinion?

Cheers Dave

Rating = quality of harness, ease of fitment, sales service & how they decided what was the best harness for what I was trying to achieve.

The car in my avatar has a Painless harness.

Yes the US$200 is nothing when it all goes in to plan....

[ozbilt]

Another thing is you then do not need an auto electrictian to fit that harness, so your $200 is covered there.

They are stupidly simple. If I can fit one anyone can...

[donoauto]

I've had a few HotRod projects come to me where owner has supplied painless wiring kit ( too lazy or rich to do it themselves - that's the whole point of buying these things ) & I can't really criticize them at all - as oz said "stupidly simple".

[Hawko]

Painless it is then!

[cage]

Great thread Hawko and good advise guys. I better get one also.

Ozbilt and Lance, will the Painless 20121 be OK for after market aircon etc?

[hybrid]

Yeah I think I'm gonna pick me up one of those too.

[cage]

Just found one on this sight for $560.00 USD. The cheapest by a mile. Why is is so much cheaper then the rest?

http://www.restomusclecar.com/1967-1968 ... p-293.html

[moe]

Just found one on this sight for $560.00 USD. The cheapest by a mile. Why is is so much cheaper then the rest?

http://www.restomusclecar.com/1967-1968 ... p-293.html

See if they will do a group buy for a further discount.