Getting Cold / More Dash Lights

Early in the garage today, its getting cold out there..  Heater on!

With the keys and and HISS loom kit on their way I needed to wire in the HISS light so I could program the keys. Don't want to mount them on the dash as I like the clean look and they are not required all the time. Will probably mount them under the dash somewhere. I have the the HISS, Fault light and water temperature light to wire in.

Ages ago I'd ordered 4 different coloured LED's. 

Love wiring! lol.

To be continued..  Need to work out where they are going to go. 

Jumper Terminals

Since I broke down and the battery wasn't charging I thought it was best to install a set of jumper terminals as the battery was so difficult to get to at the side of the road/track.  

The RAC chap recommended using set of Anderson plug which sounded like a good idea. 

The kit I asked for Xmas comes with a set of jumper leads to an Anderson plug and the other side will be an Anderson plug hardwired into the cars electrics. 

I will fix the positive to the positive busbar and the negative to the battery side of the isolator. This way I will be able to switch the connection off to the car electrics.

Wiring again!  Good fun is small doses...

All ready to wire up but I was out to lunch so had to postpone the install.

Dynojet Power Commander - rewire and install

Now most of the under scuttle wiring is complete it was time to wire in the power commander 

I cut all the honda plugs off as I was wiring this the ECU side and not the injector side.

The bits I cut off..

The area I need to chop into.

All wired up.

And in position.. Its just under the scuttle so I can access it at any time.

Had some help today...

Rob came down today to help me with a few jobs. 

Managed to fit the temperature switch to the rad. 

Fixed some good sausage rolls to. :) 

Managed to get my dimmers setup and working.

Rob sorted out the hazard switch which I had no idea how to sort out. I needed another flasher unit to get it working with the savage switches.

With the rest of the dimmers wired up and the wiring as tidy as I could get it.

With the ignition on my dash lights come on dim, the black switches were pretty hard to see but now they are not.

Mission tidy up!

Headlight rewire..

Really wasn't happy with how I had wired up the headlights. The current head lights have a loom that goes to the car and then they connect into the car loom in the car. Well i've rewired it so the car loom goes all the way into the headlights. I can still remove the headlights and lightbar as the front loom can be disconnected to allow this.

The wiring loom coming into the headlight.

The lamp itself with the original lamp loom cut and terminals added.

The car loom into the lamp and cut off ready for terminals.

Couple of the bulbs are duff and will need replacing.

Now fitted how I want them.. Pleased..

Lights off.

Side Lights.

Dipped headlights

High beam but only on one side as the bulb needs replacing.

Headlights

I have pair of second hand headlights that were donated by another owner..

Been trying for a couple of days to get them apart as I have not been able to find any instructions on how to take them apart.

Finally got them apart.. Its a simple screw at the top and then they pull apart at the top with a catch at the bottom.

I pleased the wrap with new stuff as the old one was looking a little tatty.

Lights in position with the cables fed through the light bar.

Not fixed in place yet.

After working on the lights for a few hours i've decided to wire them a different way. The lights at the moment have a short loom that run to the car where you connect them up. I've got loads of free cable on the loom side of the car so I am going to run this through the light bar and up into the lights. I will then wire them up inside the lights. This way they should be much easier to replace the lights in the future and it makes it cleaner inside the car.