The wires are plenty long enough to do it like that. Any pics of the ballast splice? I'm sure I could neatly affix it to the fire wall. Just wanted to see others work first! Thanks Beast.
No I don't have pics of that sorry.
Literally you are just keeping the two wires that go TO it from the harness by the brake booster and connecting them together.
With a test light and all the connectors removed from the ballast you are looking for one wire in one of the connectors that has 12v in the On Position of the key, and the other wire has 12v in the Crank position of the key.
Some even leave the ballast there and jumper it across so it is ineffective then use the original coil wire to power the HEI coil.
I didn't like that way because it leaves a bunch of unnecessary lengths of ugly wire in there.
Once the HEI is installed and running you can clip off ALL the wiring that went to the old ignition box all the way back to that same area on the harness and tape it back up. (or you can tuck it away and leave it in case someone ever wanted to put the OE ignition back.
That won't be you after you have had HEI on it though. :D
