Well there seems to be established opinions in both ways of attaching connectors. I've worked with a lot of "sparky's" and compared to mechanical engineers they tend to be more "camped" in the way they do things. That's cool. Nothing wrong with sticking to something when it has worked for you as long as your willing to look at new ways of doing things or you end up using obsolete tech real fast.
When I was with GM and later doing work for NRC/DOE projects, I would see heated arguments between sparky's over the color or even the shade of a wire as to which was best for a job!
For a custom harness I guess you can see the options on how to approach putting on the ends but you will still need to decide if you are going to use some multi-wire cables or all individual wires heat shrinked into bundles for the most part. I'm sure there are pro's and con's to either approach and even combinations of both.
My only recommendation would be to up size at least one wire size on all of the high current items like the headlight and coil power feeds. Buy name brand wire from an electrical supply house as you only want to do this job once (you already know that though as part of your job I'm sure). Be sure to draw it out too beforehand as you don't want to discover you need to run a wire outside your harness because you missed one!
Good Luck and let us know what your approach is to making one.
Post edited by: KZ_Rage, at: 2006/11/21 10:45