I'm currently considering rewiring my 69 camaro that I've had just over a year and have a question about the new wiring kits such as from painless or AAW. The car was restored and updated sometime around 2003 but it looks like it still has the original wiring in the car. It has a tuff stuff alternator in it, but no other markings except a stamped number on the inside and tuff stuff wasn't able to give me any info on it based on that such as amps or anything so I've just ordered a new 160 amp alternator from them. My voltmeter at startup after being on a battery charger will only read 12 volts, and then with more on it reads as low as 10, and dips with the turn signals.
The car has electric fans, electric fuel pump, radio, and a vintage air system (annoyingly they wired the fan controls and compressor directly into a switch they located in the old dash ashtray so I cannot turn the fan on without the compressor and therefore can't run heat, car came from florida so I guess they didn't care, but that's another problem to sort out).
I've decided to try to reduce some load on the system by swapping to all led exterior bulbs including headlights and as I have stuff open swap interior too along with the new alternator. Well I've installed the new led switchback front turn signal bulbs and they are finicky with working so I have to track that down, maybe a bad ground, but I'm getting to the point of just wanting to rewire the car this winter as the dome light connectors broke off the wires when I tried to change that bulb and all the wires in the car seem brittle and the rubber gummy.
I was looking at the painless kit and would consider adding power windows and locks when I did the rest of the wiring. My main question is do the new wiring kits use the same bulkhead connectors as the oem system? Like could I but their whole kit and for now just swap out the wiring for the lights forward of the bulkhead into the existing fuse panel connectors just for the next couple months, then over the winter work on swapping out the rest of the wiring?
The car has electric fans, electric fuel pump, radio, and a vintage air system (annoyingly they wired the fan controls and compressor directly into a switch they located in the old dash ashtray so I cannot turn the fan on without the compressor and therefore can't run heat, car came from florida so I guess they didn't care, but that's another problem to sort out).
I've decided to try to reduce some load on the system by swapping to all led exterior bulbs including headlights and as I have stuff open swap interior too along with the new alternator. Well I've installed the new led switchback front turn signal bulbs and they are finicky with working so I have to track that down, maybe a bad ground, but I'm getting to the point of just wanting to rewire the car this winter as the dome light connectors broke off the wires when I tried to change that bulb and all the wires in the car seem brittle and the rubber gummy.
I was looking at the painless kit and would consider adding power windows and locks when I did the rest of the wiring. My main question is do the new wiring kits use the same bulkhead connectors as the oem system? Like could I but their whole kit and for now just swap out the wiring for the lights forward of the bulkhead into the existing fuse panel connectors just for the next couple months, then over the winter work on swapping out the rest of the wiring?