What have I got myself in to? Denver here we come!!

Just a little update on the build. As it turns out I wont be making it denver after all. Our store is in the process of moving and it just so happens that opening day is June 4th. Not only will I be missing the Mopars at Thunder Mountain, but the wedding of my cousin the day before. Not really thrillled to say the least. Guess I need to have a job right? Sucks! I WILL be making a trip to denver for the car show on July 7th and Bandimere with the car. I have tons of family and friends in the denver area and havent been back for a couple of years now. Wayyyy over due for a visit.

Anyways, we are getting really close to firing up the car now. I have spent the last couple of nights after work going thru the wiring harnesses and deleting the unnesessary wiring. Like the air bags, and emissions equipment. Not a hard job, just time consuming. The engine harness didnt need any deleting of wires, but needed to be shortened up due to the fact that the engine compartment in the ram is way bigger than the darts lol.

There are three harnesses, well four if you count the one that runs back to the fuel pump/sending unit. You have the engine harness, which has a bulkhead connector at the relay/fuse center which mounts under the hood of the ram. I relocated it to the inside of the dart and mounted it where the original fresh air vent box was. Then you have the harness that comes from the relay/fuse center that contains all of the wiring for the lighting. The last major harness is the dash harness. After removing all of the air bag related wiring I strung it under the dash and it laid out really well. Its long in a few areas, again being the darts dash isnt as large as the rams. That dash harness connects to the fuse panel that is normally located on the drivers side of the rams dash. I mounted it in the same place that the darts original fuse panel was located. As far as the wiring goes, we are pretty much down to splicing in to the darts original lighting harnesses for the front and rear, and also the wiper wiring.

Tim made some mods to the dash and built a new housing for the rams original gauge cluster and headlight switch and fitted it tonight. It needs a few tweaks here and there but it looks really cool! I took some pictures of that. Also, while dash is all apart I took the pad off and dropped it off with my interior guy. It had just a couple of small cracks starting, but I figured now is the time to have it covered being it is very accessable lol.

I was also able to hook up the shifter linkage and get it adjusted today. I was able to use the original shift lever for my B&M stealth ratchet shifter. Bolted right up and just took a little adjusting to make it work correctly. Ok, enough talk, here are a couple pics.