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Thanks for the great info everyone.
Half of my connectors are shot hence getting a new harness.
I have a lead on a refurbed 1600GT dash harness that I may be able to do something with.

On another note, where do you all buy your parts from? Eg bumper bar bolts?

I remember rebuilding a loom back twenty years ago but the later looms had different color wiring so it made it harder meshing two together. Put it in and everything worked first time. All you do is undo the tape and follow along with new tape. Find a problem fix it and then retape. I solder all my joins and learning to use electrical tape to do a good job is easy. Unravel a bit then retape until you have a problem if at all. Mum was an electrical engineer for the navy so I learnt from her.

Good points Wiggy, heatshrink is even better.
 
Jaycar have decent heatshrink that is slightly thicker than normal and contains glue.
For those that are new to all this, you buy a length for a few $$, looks like a drinking straw,cut a section 2-3cm, separate your the 2 wires you cant to join or resolder, slide the tube over and out of the way for now, resolder the join as normal, the when its cool, slide the heatshrink over the join. Heating it with the side of the soldering iron or a lighter will make the tube contract down and activate the glue, sealing the join and jobs done.
 
Sorry if this is all known to everyone, but if not hopefully someone might pick up something new.

Thanks deano, I've never been fond of heat shrink as you need to take off connections to get it on but once you do its the ants pants. Ive also been using brush on electrical tape which is like a glue that brush on and its strong. Thing with redoing a loom is you need to direct the cables where you want them to go so a bit of a figure of eight around the section of wires heads them where they should go and just as original would be. you don't want variation otherwise buy the time you go to plug in you could be short or stretching the loom which is NOT recommended. Bad connections create heat which creates fires and quickly. If you find a bad section you can cut just that bit out and fix or alternatively replace the whole wire and blend it in as you unravel then retape. Its really that easy but never just remove the outside tape and start from scratch unless you have a photographic memory (which I don't). I also will but have not yet buy a headlight relay for all my cars but i would think you could buy the parts cheaply at super cheap and do it yourself. I will probably buy one of ebay which is sold there at the moment and copy it for the rest of my cars as already lost one indicator stalk as someone wired up the spotlights through the high beam switch and it melted the whole thing. On top of that always as whools suggested have a fire extinguisher at arms reach they are less than $20 bucks and could save your car, your life or help out someone else in trouble and are the best insurance a classic car can have.

Wiggy if youre going to go ahead, I saw on one of the UK forums (sorry I'm on another pc at work so don't have history at the moment), there's a pinned thread with a wiring diagram mudmap of what is changed to include a relay across the headlights switch. I too plan to do this, (plus one for the heater  fan) later when I change to the 1600 GT dash. Having a basic wiring diagram will help adding the relays, and I'm pretty sure like Accapmad's instal, it's just an addition to the loom and reversible if you ever need to.
I have a shed to demolish, build and refit out  before this project gets to the top of the list.
 

Understand deano, i have two hoses unrented in renos at the moment and run a business as well. But always like to rest and relax with Capri R&D. As far as i would think the relay just takes power straight from battery to give to headlight and a power wire goes from switch to pull contact together. So its really just power from battery to headlight relay that needs wiring then the standard cable is connected as a switch cable. Relays are about $12 bucks and is really all thats required.

I presume this Capri is the one from down Moss Vale. It is good you found the plate. Are you using the later facelift dash or the original Mk1 version.

a neat pre-facelift 1300 gt loom for sale on ebay uk at the mo - if no one wants it - ill bid