I'm finishing wrapping up rebuilding my entire dash for my 70 Barracuda and wanting to make sure I get any electrical upgrades that are needed out of the way. I'm not the brightest when it comes to electrical, so hopefully I'm doing this right. Using the article below, but I won't be able to get to anything past the firewall till spring.

Dash frame was completely powder coated, so I've added a couple of metal grounding studs and I've ran separate ground wires from the switch panel, the gauge cluster and the cigarette lighter plus radio.

Aside from hooking the two AMP meter leads together and making sure that they're well protected, anything I'm missing here? I've already upgraded to the rt-eng voltage limiter. I also have a separate voltage gauge that I'll be using.

https://www.allpar.com/threads/taking-c ... 1085245456

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1970 Barracuda 225 /6, 3spd on the floor, Blue/Blue

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Too many people who were born on third base actually believe they've hit a triple.

That's why I came to you, I know you know your electricals like the back of your hand and I'm not familiar with Allpar, it was a recommendation from an e-bodies site, so thought it best to double check with you.

So it sounds like I'm doing things right on the inside dash by connecting the two amp wires together to remove it from the equation since I don't need it anyways and when I get it all together I just need to do the mods in the engine compartment. I did use CRC marine dielectric on the firewall connection block wire holes too to minimize future corrosion. If anything sounds off please let me know.

Truly appreciate your expertise and assistance!!

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1970 Barracuda 225 /6, 3spd on the floor, Blue/Blue

I don't quite agree, because you've still got full car current passing twice through the firewall. Better to bridge the connection on the other (engine bay) side of the wall.

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Too many people who were born on third base actually believe they've hit a triple.

I will absolutely be doing that in the engine bay once I get to that stage, but I'm still about 6 to 8 months away from that part. Just focusing on making sure I have the dash electrical done right. It has brand new M&H wiring harnesses front to back as well, I didn't want to risk 50 plus year old wiring.

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1970 Barracuda 225 /6, 3spd on the floor, Blue/Blue

Ah, yeah, as a temporary deal it'll be fine.

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Too many people who were born on third base actually believe they've hit a triple.