Rally car wiring

[WTFestiva]

I decided to make a thread because I'm going to have a few wiring issues I foresee. And I'll go ahead and start my first issue is I relocated the battery to the back of the car and I'm trying to find what the battery positive terminal hooks into I have the cable wire to the engine but I don't know where the post goes. Does the positive terminal hooked directly into the starter or is there another wire that I'm missing?



My next issue is 3 wiring the dash has anybody else noticed that the pig tails for different items such as turn signals or wipers completely change car to car?

[WTFestiva]

The harness and the initial car are from the same year as well so I ruled that out but I'm still having issues because the wires of those pigtails are completely switched around

[drddan]

1)Positive terminal goes directly to the starter
2) I believe you need to tie in the harness that came with the BP of the car it came from. I have not yet done a 1.8 swap so I am not positive.

Have you read the BP swap guide? Your answer may lie in the swap guide found in the sticky section.

EDIT: I looked at the BP swap guide, evidentially the guide is gone on there from the 1st post, but there is some posts that may help, look at post's #90 and #91 and on. Some members had Q's and got A's in thread posts.

Here:
http://www.fordfestiva.com/forums/sh...p-guide/page10

There it is said that modifying the Festy harness, by replacing plugs is easiest

[drddan]

I found a link to the swap guide that is missing from the 1st post

Here:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/buxmb2ws4u...20(2).pdf?dl=0

[WTFestiva]

The swap parts aren't what's holding me up here, I've got that guide downstairs lol, what's really holding me is the + battery cable, since I've moved the battery and started re wiring i can't seem to find all the parts it plugs into, I figure there's going to be one heading straight to the starter motor, then another going to..... Main relay? Idk


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[drddan]

The cable goes to the one in your pic that does not have any wires on it now. You will notice that one of the big posts has a wire on it already, coming out of the starter. The other one is the one to put the cable on.

[WTFestiva]

Ok I have that figured out now. Now i have a different issue.

What color wires under the dash of a 92 connect to which part of the key, I have found the one for start, but i still have Acc and ON to connect. I've looked through the diagrams and theres a lot of "hot in run" or "hot in run or start" but i do not have colors for those. when connecting the key.

I guess what im asking is. What does the pigtail look like that connects the key start?