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bhatt · #5 04-18-2011, 04:01 PM

The wiring is the expensive part. You can fix with butt connectors and some wire if you want to do it cheap (ie. cheaper than buying entirely new wiring harnesses)

Look at how many wires are actually burnt. Melted insulation can be fixed with liquid electrical tape if it is a small area and only the insulation is a problem. For major issues, cut out the wire and splice in new.

Once you assess how many wires need to be fixed, take a guess as to how many hours of work it will be to replace. Then make a decision.

Connectors (if melted) can come off a donor car, or you can buy new if you don't need too many.

Rubber hoses and spark plug wires aren't expensive and would have needed to be replaced in a few years anyway, given the age of the car.

So buy a couple of spools of wire, some liquid electrical tape, spark plug wire set, and a couple of different sizes of rubber hose and you should be good.

The rest of the job is all labor.

If you get the car pressure washed quickly, you might get away with replacing the hood.. and possibly painting the front fenders if the paint was damaged. I wouldn't think there is too much work other than that.

I'd take a guess and say if you had all the tools/supplies and spent a FULL weekend (ie. 7am to midnight each day), you could probably be driving the car to a paint shop on Monday morning.