Soon after school, went to O Rerrys to buy a battery cable, some more zip ties, and wire loom for the finishing touches. After getting the old battery cable out of there and installing the new one, bench tested the starter once again with the new cable. Sprung to life so that's a good sign. Had to then put that starter back in, and lemme tell you, it's a big PITA putting one back in compared to taking it out when you only have a few inches to move around. Sucks not having a rack to lift things, but did the best I could. After taking the cable out multiple times and modifying it at the solenoid to make sure the wire wouldn't rub the block, got everything buttoned up under there to where nothing should have a hole rubbed in it. After all that, my arms were burning.
Let the car down, walked around to make sure I wasn't forgetting anything. I was getting a bit anxious making sure I didn't leave anything in the path of the belt driven fan, or leave a wire resting on a header. Went in the car, grasped the key and turned it to see what happened. Car turned over again and again, not starting at first. Bah crap.. had my mom come over and turn the key while I checked for spark from the coil and as she did it sputtered a little bit. Plugged the coil back in as it was firing just fine, fired right up after that. Must've been the fact that the car hadn't of been started in such a long time. Let out a great sigh of relief hearing the familiar rumbling of the big block beat against my chest. Was very happy, although when I went to activate the light switch, headlights came on. Yes! Hit the beam select switch, nothing. DAMMIT! Same problem, only getting power to one pin running to the select switch, yet only the high beams worked. Thought I had a short in that circuit that I overlooked, looked at all the wires over and over again, ohmed everything out. Everything checked out. Scratched my head wondering what I did wrong.
Disassembled the old switch and looked at how it operated. The smaller cube like object with contact points that resides within the larger contact are, moves up and down that area as you pull on the knob, supplying power through specific points. After studying it for some time, something didn't seem right as only one pin would get power, like it was doing. I was trying to figure out how the other side got power, when it hit me; this bastard has two input wires. XD
Wired up another power wire to go into the connector, fired everything up, checked everything, and sure enough, everything worked like a charm.  Turn signals worked, tail lights worked, headlights worked, brake lights worked, horn worked, car running great. Exhausted but damn, what an awesome way to finish this up finally. Just need to make everything look nice in the interior now to hide the wires and I'll be all set.
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