I must say, the PO did a real bang up job on the wiring

All accessories (lights, wipers, signals, gauges, etc.) worked without the key

Nothing was fused and half the power wires were ziptied to the wiper arm

I always install a Heavy Duty battery cut-off solenoid on my cars, so I mounted it next to the battery in the trunk, pulled all the old dinky wiring and ran new power cables to a new ATC style fuse panel mounted on the firewall under the dash

Also wired up a switch panel with LED's on the radio plate along with **** leading down to the 8680 Timing controller I snagged on CL last week








All the wiring is pretty much done and tested fine (she seems to like the bumped timing), but I'm gunna call it a night and put everything back together tomorrow.

 

more pix from today...