Any ideas ???

Okay you still have the Harness that you took off of it originally. You need to trace the wire that goes to the starter up to the plug-in for the firewall and compare it to the harness that you just put on and see if that wire is still in the same position on both harnesses. There may be a couple of wires that are switched an you're actually grounding out instead of sending power to the starter relay.
Starter has a "thicker" brown wire that goes to the relay, and the main power from the battery. I believe when I switched harness, this was the same.

***I'm really thinking now about the switch under the dash at the end of the rod. I'm thinking this because they had a jumper at the relay itself from ignition to solenoid. that's why I bought the new relay to begin with. Also, they jumped pass the orange wire at the black "Y". I think they may have bypassed a bad ignition switch. Now with things hooked up correctly, I'm seeing the same results they saw and bypassed. I think that ignition switch under the dash is where i'm headed next.