Wiring the Mustang from Scratch - Painless Pro Harness and Dakota Digital Gauges Preview 

I have been looking for a video like this. My 71 was stolen in November of 2020 and I got it back in February of 2021. It needs quite a bit of work now. one of the big things it needs is new wiring. So thank you.

I love this series. I will be picking up my rusty 73 Grande on Saturday. It has a 351 Cleveland. I am Soo stoked

Great videos, been following along for a while now. I have a 1971 Mustang Coupe I'm rebuilding, so I love seeing what you're doing and get to see different ideas.

I get genuinely excited every time I see you uploaded a new video. I honestly like the red and black instrument but I don't think you could go wrong with any of them. Keep up the awesome videos and builds!

Yay an autoedits video *instantly drops everything in doing*

Pinto is the most adorable helper

Awesome video! I always look forward to your Mustang vids. I'm putting a lot of similar branded parts in my 67 fastback soon and your videos show how to do it all. Keep up the great work and high quality content!

Your pup is the star of the show!!!!

i'm glad you decided on an analog instrument panel. i seem to remember suggesting that. ;-)

I have a '69 Mustang and I went with the black face with blue backlighting. Amazing look and the extra features (0-60 times, 1/4 mile, ect, ect.) I have Atomic efi and went with the BIM and it made everything super simple! You're definitely on the right path in my opinion!

The instruments look awesome, black with blue would look great!

Keep it up, man!!! You're on a roll! Not much further...

Now this is what I’m talking about! You are so close! And sounds like you are hitting your final gear toward completion! That painless harness is going to make this a breeze. It’d be awesome if you did a very detailed video/s about the install. Tough to find good videos on this stuff on the web. As far as gauges, I’m not a big fan of red/blue, so my vote is for black finish with white numbers. But you should consider what the rest of the interior will consist of and make sure nothing would look out of place. Exciting stuff, keep up the good work!

I like the black look with the blue lights

Started watching for the jeep stayed for pinto. Enjoying this build as well keep up the good work

Black with white lights, but you always might want to look at the lighting of the radio and climate controls and pick a light color that makes them all the same for a more factory look

I was waiting for this video

OMG Pinto was really interested in the wiring. Too funny. Keep it up Pinto.

This will open up my options when it comes to my 93’ typhoon build

Well you certainly sold me on that wiring harness! I'm also a huge proponent of the original look for my 73, but the red doesn't look bad at all.

Black and blue looks like something you'd rock with my guy do it !

I'm liking this build more and more! I would match the colors with the rest of the switches and stuff. At night driving I liked the amber/red light more than any other.

Love the Dakota guages and your chosen color scheme. I would suggest some idiot lights(for example red light for low oil pressure or high water temps) if your doing some track time with large Marge. Much easier to spot with everything else that goes on when driving fast on track. Can't wait to see more ! Oh, and before I forget................ Pinto Rocks !

Looking good!

Cool Jason. I like the blue.

Sweet!! getting so close!

I like the Carbon with the Blue for the gauges.

I have the Dakota digital gauges in my Jeep CJ7 and my 68 GTO! I love them, carbon fiber in both but white light in the Jeep and red in the GTO. For your car the red would be my pick, it’ll make that black car with black interior look menacing

Black gauges with white looks good. The blue is closest to the factory greenish color, but doesn't look right without at least some green in it.

The stock gages are black with white letters. I would stick with those colors - too bad they didn't make the indicators orange like the original. I would love it if you added the automatic headlight control module and retained power. Also, look into the keyless entry, cruise control, and tire pressure monitoring modules. Pack all the cool electronic gadgets you can in there .... Its nice having someone else be the guinea pig for my '73! I am really interested to see how you route the wiring for the battery in the trunk. I looked into it but I couldn't find a place to route it where I was comfortable that it wouldn't be pinched. I would see if Holley would do a trade and get you a sniper system. For the advertising they should give you one for free. I was going to get the FiTech for my 351C and would purchase the sniper system if they supported your channel - DO YOU HEAR ME HOLLEY! I hope you call TMI and get some of their interior parts. Console, door panels, headliner, dash pad, etc .... all of their stuff looks awesome and I would love to see it installed. I am curious what you are going to do with the center dash panel that housed the 3 gages, that are now a part of the Dakota Digital gages. I always thought a double din radio would be cool but maybe a little out of place. How do we speed this build up? Patreon, beer, free labor (I click on all the ads as it is).

Another great video, My CJ5 Resto started with the full wiring harness and dash/gauge harness from Painless and the dual batter kit. Next on my list - Trail Rocker for the Ram. Now for Dakota Digital - VHX-71F-MUS-C-R - 1971- 73 Ford Mustang VHX Instruments - Style:Carbon Fiber Look - Color:Red

Look at restomod air for climate control and the controls for the climate control whatever color scheme you get they will have something that will match right up no problem!! Loving the build! Keep it up!

Nice, something good to watch on my day off. I have a painless kit I bought about 3 years ago waiting on me. It's for my project that has stalled.

I may be the odd ball here, but I really like the black panel with the white numbers. Looks cleaner than the red or blue. More classic.

Awesome video. Love Pinto

I have the Holly Dual sync with the Sniper in my 69 along with the Dakota Digital dash. The ECU runs the dual fans and syncs up with my 4R70W automatic electronic trans. Car is at paint, awaiting the seats to button down the seat riser locations which had to move back (I am 6'8"). Once the seats arrive, they'll burn in the seat risers and paint. Then full painless electric harness. I mocked the engine & trans up prior to paint. Relocated the optima battery to the trunk and ran direct circuits to the engine via a couple power studs, one in the engine compartment, the other in the passenger bay. Looking forward to following you along.

pinto chewing gave me so much anxiety haha

On my 73 coupe I updated the stock gauges wiring but they are still hard to seen if you have tinted windows. This is the black background with white numbers and orange needles. I would have looked at the Dakota Digital if they had gauges when I was doing mine but they only had digital displays back then. What I’m getting at is the gauges are in a hole and if they are illuminated all the time this would solve the hard to see issue with a black background. While I like the red and black I would go for a brighter color to help daytime visibility. Also matching the other gauges is a great idea that was already pointed out. Thank you and keep up the awesome videos!

Pinto is such a good helper!

I'm really liking the carbon fiber with red. I think that matches well. Or, the black with white lightening.

South dakota for the win also black and red

I think black and blue would look amazing

I would go with the Red gauges. It's less fatiguing to the eye with red light as opposed to blue, white, or green. Either way those Dakota instruments will look really nice in there.

Black and Red dude!

hehe, earned a like just from a Mustang doing a burnout in the dirt in the first 10 seconds! Awesome Jason, thanks!

carbon fiber gauges with the red lighting less eye fatigue. I used to be an over the the road trucker and at the end of a long day of driving the red lighting was less stressful to my eyes at night

Love that dog.

I'm voting for the Carbon Fiber with Blue. It would be super clean

I would pick the black and red for the instrument panel. And I have the easiest solution for your Holly wiring speed bumps... just call Lucky.

Love the channel and vids bro. But sorry PINTO steals the show 😁. I love watching the videos cause I have a 71 coupe and there's not so much love on our year cars out there. Keep killin it!!!!

The blue lights with the carbon

I like the black carbon with blue from looking at the website, but as the person mentioned in a comment below perhaps have a look at what other lighting your having first, keep it up can’t wait to here it fire up..👍

Very cool Jason! I like Painless’s harnesses, but I don’t like their price. I am doing an LS engine swap in a Jeep TJ. I wound up re-building the harness that came with engine. It was a major pain. I had zero experience with wiring [anything] when I did mine. I sometimes wish I had bought Painless’s harness. Now, I’m working on retrofitting the Jeep’s harness to play nice with the LS. (I am ditching the Jeep’s PCM.) I look forward to seeing how you lay out your new harness and get it working. Are you going to do a video of wiring the gauge cluster? Keep it up. Oh, I won’t comment on the gauges. I’m sure you have in mind what you want. I went with Autometer’s Designer Black series for the Jeep.

I think the black gauge and blue light would be cool! The light is kind of turquoise in the stock gauges so blue would be the closest. But hey red could be cool if you want a bit of a terminator vibe so you cant go wrong.

Black and blue

I am following along. I am working on my 72, also. 351c with a 174 B&M blower. I am thinking super sniper. Less wiring. Mine is a basket case. Last on the road about 87. It is my high school car.

You got cool jeep jku and a mustang!!! I've got a jku and a 90 ssp mustang lol

black alloy with white lighting

Black Alloy Background with red

My vote would be the blue & black.

thanks!!;)

Black with light blue lights

Blackout blue lights would be perfect

Black and red

I would either go red or white on backlighting... and while i like the look of the carbon fiber, i see how those gauges are shrouded in the dash. if it were my car, i'm not sure how i would feel about dark gauges down in the dash. granted, its not my car, and i have never even been inside one of those. Just my past experience in cars with deep-set gauges and problems with visibility in daylight. Its a good setup.... its just that Dakota Digital tends to require that you run their specific controllers and interface items making the routing or packaging an additional concern in the process. I won't make any suggestion on what to choose, though....

Hey very cool video, I'm building a 51 Ford truck and I am using a 94 mustang as the donor. Would you use the wire harness from the car or the one that you are using in the video. Thanks for the info

Dydrodip the bezel and other trim pieces in muted low key print, like a carbon fiber or a wavy gravy dark green and black checkerboard ??

Have you checked out Digi-Tails yet? LED conversions for taillights. Looking at them for my '69 Charger.

The distributor has a wiring harness from holley that plugs it to the computer so the puter handles the timing ..The holley i have is the terminator x computer with a MSD billet dist ..I found the part number for the harness in the manual for the efi.

Do you have radio/ climate control lights yet? I would make sure those match. But i think the black and blue look sleek. And what color is the Track rocker?

They need to make a Tail Rocker for Pinto to keep

Quick question when picking out the harness which one did you go with? I know the harness that say 65-1973 have the ignition key on the dash and since our year of mustang have it on the steering column what did you do?

Carbon Fiber Background and Blue Lighting would be my choice. The Black Alloy is very cool but I don`t care for the shape of the bottom of the gauge/number layout compared to the more traditional round gauge on the Carbon Fiber.

I would like this in my 58 Edsel pacer

wait, you give a heart to most of the comments and not just mine? :-p Keep up the good work!

Oh almos done

Black and blue mate...

Black with red will be easier on the eyes, with a pair of Truck Lite 7" LED headlights night driving will be a pleasure.

You gotta go with brushed and red lights. It’s perfect in mine

Black and Red like mine 2015 GT

Pinto stealing every scene :)

Carbon fiber is like a good charcoal suit.......goes with everything, never goes out of style

Black with white lights

Lol, so I came to the comments to talk about Pinto chewing the mainstay of the project. Gooo Pinto!

I think the black alloy will look the best with the red lights

If you were to do an engine swap what ECU would you use when doing this on a newer car. Or would this not work because it’s not merging rather than replacing the original. I want to redo the entire wiring in a engine swapped car but need to understand more before I start, thanks.

I think black alloy with red lights will work best especially because red wont dazzle you at night ;) blue is going to do that..

Like the Bleu.. But i alwais like bleu..😂 i bought a single tacho for my 73. With warning lights in it as it was from.factory.. You can order that to to be more up to dat cost about 250 bucks... Put in the led lights and youre there also.. A well every body does it diverend 😀

Black background for sure. But I'm mixed on red lighting or white lighting.

I don’t know why the terminator wouldn’t work with the b&m blower, it’s not like the injectors are under boost, it’s just like it’s on a bigger engine because it’s a draw through application, and why would you need a three bar map? If the map is reading under the carb as vacuum and not in the manifold as pressure. The only reason I could see for a three bar map is if the injectors were under the blower and experiencing boost, it’s not like a turbo application that the system is under boost, if you have a 351 at normal air pressure of 14.7 under the throttle body the MAP would read vacuum to 14.7 psi of air pressure, putting the blower on top of the 351 won’t make the MAP read any more pressure, just more vacuum, it’s as if you now put it on a 460 instead of a 351, if you don’t plan on changing blower pullies it’s never going to change how much vacuum it’s seeing. I’ve been researching this for my blown big block Chevy with a B&M 420 megablower on it and thus is how I understand it. The guys at Holley would know best, just be certain you are talking to the correct person who understands roots superchargers and not a blow thu system

Black with blue is my fave. As a small note, during the blue mat scene, the music was mixed a little too high, and made it harder to hear you. Really looking forward to seeing this thing drive!

Carbon Fiber Background, Blue Lighting

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Why don't you work on the mustang now again .. We really want to see it ready

It's a dead heat on who's the better shop dog. Pinto or Lite Bright's Jelly...

Man, I've been waiting FIVE YEARS to see you install EFI on a Roots blower! And you didn't do it!! Haha - the problem with EFI five years ago was that it was new stuff. I am planning on Terminator-X now on my Weiand 177.

Where are you mounting the fuse block?

Carbon fiber would be awesome

no doubt carbon fiber with red lighting

I have a Chevy 2005 equinox and I need to repin the harness connector that's under dashboard driver's side. The pins in my harness corroded, which means I would have to replace the whole pin. Could anyone point me to a good website that can provide such pins? Any forums or websites that can provide info? I need help identifying what kind of metal pieces go at the tip so i can order them!! Any info would be much appreciated.