does the 305 have a HEI on it?

 

Sorry for my incompetence but what is a HEI?

 

HEI is the older style distributor

or do you have any pics of the 305?

 

Here you go...hope that helps

 

Here two more pictures that should make it clear I hope

and this one

 

you said the bird has a carbed V6 before or was it efi?

 

Yes that's correct it was a V6 Carbed AND i HOPE I get it to work with the V8 Carb I got in there now...

 

would you have a pic of the 2 fire wall conections?

 

This is the Firewall mounted plug

This is the original Wiring Harness Plug (the part for the light)

and this is the one for the engine

and this one is the one from the V8 Engine Wiring Harness

I hope that helps

thanks

 

You're going to need the pin out diagram from your car and the pin out diagram for the donor car. Then you're going to have to re-pin the new harness into the old connector. It's kind of a time consuming PITA but it's very do-able if you want to use the caprice wiring harness.

The EASIEST thing to do would be to find an LG4 wiring harness for an 84 F-body. Then it would just be plug & play with no modifications. I'm not real familiar with the carbed wiring harnesses and which years they changed them but you might be able to use another year older or newer as long as it's an LG4 F-body harness. You should be able to find one either on Ebay or in the classifieds on TGO. Those are the two places I've had pretty good luck with finding wiring harnesses for my swaps. Also, don't forget to check out your local junk yards you might find one there too.

If you have a stock tach it will have to be modified to read correctly on the V8. I don't know all the details on it since I usually let my electrical engineer buddy deal with those types of headaches.

 

I would honestly try to make it run on the original harness. You would need to swap out the disty and carb for a non computer controlled versions. That would eliminate the computer and really the need for that specific harness.

To make what you have work, you will need to repin the connector as suggested above. You'll also have to reuse that C100 connector from the v6 harness, since it sorta incorporates the headlight harness into it. The other option is to try and find a V8 LG4 harness on TGO, Ebay, etc as already mentioned.

Good luck with your swap

-jason

 

really all you need is you starter alt and dizzy wires then run some guages for temp oil and volt might not be politically correct but its what i do

 

Found this harness on TGO today and thought for the price, it might work for your application

http://www.thirdgen.org/techboard/engine-drivetrain-parts-sale/539400-1982-1992-chevrolet-camaro.html

downside is its for a 5 spd car.

of course, that isn't a bad thing to swap in either! LOL

good luck

-jason