[Dan Heck]

Bob has a point there about the wire costs- I neglected to mention that I had fallen into a good deal on some closeout automotive wire for my prior wiring harness project. The good automotive wire has finer strands than the household-type wiring of the same gauge. It's more flexible when you try to run a 1" bundle of wire around a tight corner. I recently found vast quantities of extremely high quality wire at the local alloy & nonferrous metals scrap dealer. Apparently surplus from some sort of wiring project or other- very good stuff in assorted colors/sizes from 8-16 gauge, with hi-temp insulation. Some was still on half-filled spools. [Must've been a government project to be so wasteful]. I think that a big assortment-sufficient to do an entire car- was maybe $20. To the dealer it's just copper. However, after doing it myself the first time, in my current cobra project I decided to go with a harness kit just to save time and trouble.

Dan