[GlennCMC70]

o.k. - on my 93 LT1 CMC car, i'm using a painless wiring engine harness. this harness does not have the small red wire that plugs into the altinator. so i plan to cut this wire out of the stock harness as far back as i can. my plan was to put this on a 12v switched source. the guys at painless said it needs to have a resistor or light inline w/ it. does that sound right? they said w/out the resistor or light the regulator would burn up. anyone know any different?

[#07]

Glenn, I cant help you on the getting ohms reading sorry mine is takin apart right now I would though. Your question has me real confused. Meaning I was planning this too,just havnt got around to it. I have a 4 pole longacre for months (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif)

What wire are you talking about? I know "the exciter wire" but which is it? I have a plug w/4wires then the ,what is it 8 guage,battery charging wire that goes to batt. from the stud on back of Alt.

So the confusing part is this resistor crap and unknown excitor wire talk. I thought and have planned that when I got around to doing it. That at the switch. I was just going to break the main power line from batt. to starter. And on the 2 small poles the charge wire.
The one thing I was unsure of BEFORE THIS was do I need to run that 8 guage charge through the 2nd circuit of the switch and wire from there all the way back to the battery. OR just to the switch and put it on the pole of the main cord back to pos. term. of batt.

Its not my intention to hijack this thread either I'd like to see you get this figured out.Mostly because of this statement

if you could please make this a priority to find out, that would be great. as this could be the one detail keeping me from starting the car for the first time this comming weekend

Oh man am I a little anxious about putting mine back together praying for no hang-ups/hick-ups/hair pulling (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/ph34r.gif)

Tony