dealing with the wire harness
If you start with a running car and are both patient and careful, you can extract the wire harness from the car and still have it run. Isolate out the things you don't need, like the headlight wiring, ABS and so on. Be wary of electrical components bolted to the chassis. The 4.5's ignition module is one such item. It needs that chassis contact for current flow to ground.
-CTH
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