[Rick Parker]

Crimp, solder, heat shrink tubing or you'll be doing it again at an inoportune time.
3 years ago when I redid the entire electrical system on my older NAF car had parts of an OEM Mustang II loom that was used from the locking steering column and had been spliced into behind the dash.
I stripped every bit of wiring out of the entire car and also chose a different ignition switch and dash layout with toggle switches.
I bought several colors of high quality high temp jacketed (GXL) primary wire. Several packages of "good" ring, and bullet connectors (without the plastic collars) and other miscellaneous bits. I used a wiring diagram and hard wired the entire car. Each connection is crimped, soldered and then heat shrink wrapped. It took a few days to do but was actually fun planning and executing. Afterwards I used a 6 volt lantern battery to test everything before attaching the car battery. I do not anticipate any electrical gremlins short of a component failure.