Building a full custom ride to some people means creating most of the masterpiece from your imagination and what cool parts you have been able to collect from all those swap meet trips. This, for the most part, describes the scenario very well, until you get to things like glass, upholstery, chrome, and wiring. For most of us, those first three items are usually left to the pros for obvious reasons--except when it comes to wiring. Everyone can relate to installing some sort of electronics in an old ride and finding a hacked-up pile of spaghetti that who knows how many people have had their hands in cutting, splicing, and simply destroying anyone else's ability to troubleshoot any type of electrical problem that may come up. The moral to all this is to leave the wiring to the pros, or simply tear the entire mess out and toss it all in the trash. Being a do-it-yourselfer, the latter should already be making sense... besides, have you checked into how much shops charge for a complete wiring job these days? It's not pretty, but luckily for all of us, there are a few companies out there that were started by do-it-yourselfers just like us--and have taken all the headaches out of wiring. These kits are nothing like factory wire looms, and for good reason. In today's custom car world, we can employ all the creature comforts of late-model cars into our old rides. In fact, trying to splice some of these comforts into an original wire loom that has been hacked to any extent is just simply out of the question. One of the best (and when we say best, we mean ease of installation and all necessary circuitry to hook up what ever we want) looms on the market comes from a name that best describes the very product they offer--Painless Performance Products. For our needs, we chose the custom 12-circuit wire kit--mostly for the ability to hook up remote doors, power windows, an electric cooling fan, and so on. Some of that stuff will have to wait to install in another story, but for now we will go over the basic installation and some of the benefits of saving a little cash to have a complete, versatile, and easy-to-use wire loom.