Amen to Bud's post...generally speaking, before doing a mod that involves "cutting" think about what you are doing. You are introducing a mod, probably soldering point to point w/ heat shrink which is fairly permanent AND if you need to service, you have to do additional cutting or resoldering rework to change. If you use connectors, are they weather resistant, using the correct crimping tool and not going to abrade or get pinched by tight packaging? :31:
Plenty of thought has to be made before doing either...that is why MOST modifications usually are a "kit" form, so all the necessary stuff AND R&D has been done beforehand, that is what we PAY for when we buy. In a world of millions of people with ideas, odds are GREAT that knowledge and experience far greater was packaged in the product we pick up, than meets the eye. :s