1971 Speedipus Rex by dangina

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1-19-2015

-Michael

most of this is pretty time consuming - I'm doing this as a guide to avoid all these hours of BS trying to meter each one out, look it up in the manual to see where it goes, I figure that future mopar members will benefit from this - I just found out that M&H for some reason moved the horn wiring from the lamp harness to the engine harness, and they moved the low brake switch wiring from the engine harness to the lamp harness. So if one wanted to run a mix of old harnesses and new, you would have to change these wires in the actual harness themselves to get it to work. This is taking forever lol

**update had to switch the brown and red wire leads on the windshield wiper motor harness as they were backwards when plugged into the bulkhead****

4-9-2015

so its been awhile since my last post, been working mostly on the new wiring for the car, its kinda hard to see what lies hidden, but all the wiring in the interior of the car is now done, just currently working on the engine bay harnesses. Finished my wiring guide, I have also got around to finishing up some loose ends:

wired my amp under the package tray out of sight

radio now in the glovebox

battery in the back complete with all my relays hidden and battery disconnect in the trunk (for now)

floor mat all done 

cleaned up all of my seatbelts ready for install:

so I have two boys now, one in a baby seat, other in a child seat. We plan on maybe having one more down the road. You can buy child anchors for child seats, which I installed here in the package tray in front of the speakers and one in the middle:

The problem is this. No one, and I mean NO ONE sells a set of the lower metal latch systems used on baby seats that are in all of the modern cars today, I've tried aftermarket, dealerships ect. So realizing this I came to make up my own I made from used racing belt anchors, heck if it can hold back a 300lbs adult, a 20 lbs baby should be easy. I had to dremel the holes out about a 1/16" so the latches from the seat could hook onto them. The brackets are made from 1/4" flat bar and grade 8 hardware, (overkill I know) but they are holding my baby boys!

I had to cut two of them down to mount on the wheel well and angle the hooks with the top half of the rear seat in so they are about 1/4 -1/2" sunk in out of sight until you need them. 

once the seats were installed, you can't see them until you push them back for use! So now I can have 3 babies in the rear seat, or 3 children, or a combination of the two!

with that out of the way I can finish the interior!