Is this a stock firewall pad?, What else in the engine bay looks bad? Options

[Slick914]

As some of you know, I just bought this car a couple weeks ago. I'm seriously looking into doing a facelift on the car such as new paint, some interior, and detailing the engine bay. I pretty much know what needs to be done body and interior wise. Now I'm trying to determine what the engine bay will need. I'm not going for an original resto, and plan on keeping the carbs. I'm thinking it may just need a battery tray and painted. Some of the wiring looks ugly, so maybe that can be straightened up. Is that firewall pad stock or something that was added? Everything seems solid as far as rust goes. What looks bad to you guys?

[swl]

with the relay you only need a small amount of current passing through the switch. That switch probably was engineered for that low current and probably would not like having the full current of the blower passing through it.

here is a really useful copy of the relay board diagram. whenever I post this I profusely thank the unknown author. If he is out there I would really like to get the original document to add some information to it.