Stripping it down.. AGAIN!

Back from the IVA, that evening I stripped the car, seats out, tunnel off, scuttle off.

Think the tester was a little heavy handed on the handbrake lever as its now bent..

Ok really heavy handed, he had bent the supports also.

Next up was trying to work out why the car is not charging. Jumped on youtube to check out some videos to try and test the rectifier and generator.

Stock motorcycle regulator/rectifier check out

Motorcycle stator checkout

The generator was giving a good 25-35 volts per phase so this wasn't the problem. The rectifier also checked out fine but when plugged into the generator the output was not showing any volts out. 

 

Time to order another one.. 

The battery was charging well so not sure its anything to do with that.. It took a killing on the IVA day but think its still strong and to keep it going for 4 hours with no charge it must be man enough.

New rectifier ordered. 

New Handbrake lever ordered

Some handbrake pillars arranged by another owner (Thanks Jamie!) 

Some steel bar to strengthen the handbrake chassis mounts. 

tunnel cables

Sorry poor images but best I could get.. My tunnel felt completely full of my loom, I thought I was going to have a hard time getting it up and out of the way.  Once cabled tied back it worked out really well.

Thats my rectifier, fixed to the side. Should stay nice and cool and out the way.

Final bits before I can fire her up...

Connected up the rectifier, HiSS and a few other bits.

Fitted a relay from the bikes loom to switch power to the car loom when the bikes ignition is turned on.

Must order some more wire crimpers, mine are knackered. Pretty sure the blade at the top is suppose to meet.

More soldering and lots of heat sink.

I wired the digidash in so I could make sure I could see what oil pressure I was getting.

Fuel pump all connected and wired up.