Let me rephrase this. I think something may have gotten lost in translation.
The only way I could make this work was to purchase two harness's and solder them together. I was under the impression that philly stated that he was able to do this without soldering.
I went to Circuit City, Tweeter, Best Buy, Car Toys and two other local radio shops. They all told me it could not be done with joining to harness's together.
(1) forward harness Metra part # 70-1677-1 and (1) reverse harness Metra part # 71-1858. Both have a pig tail on each end and the other is raw wires. The two harness's have to be joined together either with butt splices or solder. One end will plug in to the 87 wiring harness and the other will plug in to the 02 radio.
Is everyone in agreeance? Doing the above, I will NOT be cutting in to the stock harness. But I will have to be soldering the two harness's together that will attached the stock wires in the car to the new radio.