66 dart convertible

as the title say's I'mouta parts money right now so I'll get some of the wiring and mold work out of the way, I went down to the painters supply and picked up some more hi build, hmm no gray.I'm doing a vanilla (off white color and I'll seal it with white sealer so I picked up some nason buff hi build. I shot the rear quarter and top of the new trunk lid (from the wife's car since I purchased a rust free one for her's) I'm putting on the car GAHHHHH!!! buff shows EVERY little bit of the mistakes I made. :banghead: mostly near or on the bodylines. I's going to be an easy fix but Buff primer really does highlight my mistakes. I think I'll use that color for the rest of the build
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as you can see the right led light is at an angle(my bad) and the right one is better, I never noticed it when I did the prototype board and found out later that it's a 9 inboard 12 degree outboard tilt off square setup to get them to line up.
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I still have a lot of metal work to do on the bottom edge of this trunk ,but it's half the work needed on the original(wrong model 270 not gt) on the car now

I started wiring the headlight relay's and tested it out against the other car WOW it made a world of difference. I rewired the headlight to 14 and 12 gauge wiring (12 to lights and relay,14 to ground all connectors soldered adn using silicone grease on the splices under the heat shrink tubing ) I used a lawn tractor battery to test with on the dart and a normal battery in the other car
with the other car off and a full charged battery cleaned factory wiring I had a 2.8 volt drop, made some nice yellow lights, with this setup of relays and heavier wiring it made awesome bright white lights with a .2 volt drop. now all I have to do is find some of those uhhhh hmmm Nighthawks(gotta search for the number now) to replace the 15 year old lights in there now
I ordered some of the non adhesive tape wrap to redo the wiring harness since I've tore it apart, I finally found it at an affordable price. there "ain't no way? I'm paying 7-9 bucks a roll for 69 cent 1 inch wide electrical tape WITHOUT the glue. 70 cents a roll minimum 10 rolls isn't too bad. now to fint the cloth friction tape for the tape wrap ends.
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I also welded a plate to the firewall to bolt on the updated voltage regulator that I'll be using for a late model alternator a square back one
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I wanted Led's in the front also and using a test bunch of low(read cheap china and not a very good color match)power leds 20Ma only I filled up the whole cavity with then a achieved a nice light pattern doe just parking light and the turn signals show a nice diferential when blinking(darn turn signal relay!@#!$#$@$# had to get a 12v electronic flasher) . Once I'm sure that it'll work I will order some of the Good orance/amber @ 70MA led's and fill out the new boards that I'll cut out and have some GREAT light, My little sharps 12v regulators haven't come in so I have to be carefull of voltage (I hooked up the big battery charger and forgot to turn it down from 100 amp boost to this battery and promptly blew out a row of led's in the tail light :protest:) luckily I have the design for the better leds in the cad program and can get them cut out when the new led's come in.

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Now I have to splice in the trunk light harness since ma mopar didn't want to make the inboard light in the trunk lid work as turn and brake light also. wires are run and made but not spliced in yet.