wiring harness for streat beast flared speedster

I am looking for a new wiring harness for the flared version speedster from CMC.
I thought I would ask through the club before contacting street beast.
If anyone has one, please let me know your price.
Thanks

John,
Avoid Street Beasts as you'll get a poor quality universal street rod harness that is for a front engine vehicle, yes you can splice and dice but it is poorly labled.
Vintage Speedsters makes a simple color coded harness, you'll have to add in your own light and horn relays. If you go with this one, there are a number of us that can walk you through any problems that you may have.
There are also other street rod harnesses that you can easily move the dedicated engine wiring to the rear of the harness ~Alan

another option is to just buy the beetle 12 circut harness. they are really cheap and you get 4 more circuts than the standard VS / CMC one.

Can also go with a cheap dune buggy harness, but you get whet you pay for in quality and time .

Hey guys,
Thanks for your feedback.
I currently have a harness that came with the car but I am not sure what type it is? The wire colors do not match the speedster book and are not exact to the 73 vw schematic I have?
I have two choices: buy one that has a matching schematic so I don't go crazy and loose interest to finish or I pay someone to use what I have and make it work? I need to determine what route is most cost effective and least time consuming. Do you know a typical price will be?

Thanks

I had a VS one and got rid of it --- it had only 6 of the old VW ceramic fuses. IMHO It was low quality (merely black taped together) wiring - take a look at it on their web site. I had gotten it from another SO who thought the same thing apparently (I resold it to yet another SO). They charge $150 for it and, in my opinion, it is no better than the $40 JC Whitney VW dune buggy kit. You still have to cut to length and add all the end connectors. If your's looks like their kit - I do have a copy of their hand drawn wiring diagram. I'm going to use a 12 circuit Painless brand (NOT!) wiring block and add my own wiring to it. It has modern spade fuses and relays all on a single block and comes with a 61 page wiring book (which is NOT aimed at a VW but is more GM oriented). I plan to route wiring and cover in that black corrigated wiring loom tubing with shrink tubing over soldered on connectors (Harbor Freight has as does Radio Shack). Using a new VW harness is no real advantage since you need to add many ground wires, there is no wiring to support the added gauges, and the front wiring will be a foot short and the rear too long.

Maybe it's because I am use to using the VS harness...at least 12 times now. Yes I have to add in the couple of relays and crimp on the end terminals but it's an easy installation. There are others available that have all black wires and are labled every foot or so, problems with those is they are for front engine cars, are usually set up for an intergrated GM column that has internal directionals and high beam switches.

Hey Alan, I used to work for a company that built and sold machines that labeled wires every foot or so. We could run about 6 or 8 different wire reels at once, each with it's own labeling and color. Wire labeling is apparantly a requirement for all aircraft electrical harnesses. Wouldn't it be great if our cars came with labeled wires like that?

Jon,

One of the well known street rod products manufacturers known for good stuff - Watson's StreetWroks - has a VW wiring kit that might be worth a look. You can find it here:
www.watsons-streetworks.com/vw.html

Also Note the link "Click Here to learn "How to Rewire a VW in Style"" at the bottom of the ad.

I can't personnaly vouch for this kit but have purchased other items from them that I've been pleased with.

Hey guys,
Thanks for the advise. I ordered a VS harness and will get started this week to get it done. Got two weeks vacation. hopefully it will go smooth

Try http://www.kwikwire.com/ I was extremely happy with their product. Very easy to install.