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Old 01-07-07, 10:01 PM   #32 (permalink)
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Re: DRB #5

Well, its time again, and I have been rather busy with a lot of parts coming in and work being farmed out. I have redone the electrical wiring,,,, again, due to the fact that I didn't like the relays being left out in the elements in the engine bay. So they have been moved into the cabin. All that is needed now is to test the circuits. That's one area that has always bothered me, to hook up 150 amps to the circuit board and have some misadventure take place with loud pops, smoke and burning insulation. To that end, Peter Delany turned me on to a great idea. That is to use a power supply with low(6-8amps) power to test the circuits. The lights will be dim, and the blinkers will be slow, but at least a lot of wiring won't be ruined if there is a short. I did a search and came up with a reasonable alternative. These usnits are internally fused(circuit breaker) at a surge amperage just above their output. Hook it up to your circuit board, and check each circuit out. So if a short occurs, it blinks off. Nothing fried... Here are some of them on this site. When I first looked them up, they were on sale, but now are back up to regular price. Hope it loads correctly.
Pyramid 12 volt DC Power Supplies

I redid the rear cooler mounts and they are much lighter and look a lot better as well. I also used the tubing for the rear trans mounts. Just have to neaten things up a little.
I had the car out to a local Corvette shop in hopes of getting a set of Wilwood brakes for front and rear. It winds up the fronts are early C4s. Nobody makes aftermarket brakes for the C4s. So something will have to be adapted. Then we find out, one of the spindles is bent, and I have come to find out they are not making the spindles any more. I then got a note from Fran Hall. He has to be one of the best people I have come to know on the forum. He said he could help me out with the brakes and bearings. So I have sent a front and rear upright up to him for some research. He hopes to have some good news for me soon. The Corvette shop ordered some Racetec(from New Zeland) seats for me. I spent all day today checking to see if they will fit. They will, but only with some metal work on the floorboards. More welding. And I thought I was through with that phase.
Installed the third brake light from CBS. Lots of things from them. Wound up being one of my Christmas presents. Also got the wireless backup camera from PEP BOYS.
While at the Corvette shop, I got to looking around at parts laying around. I came across some C5 shifters which I think would be a good choice for those of you with the ZF trans, and maybe for the Porshe units as well. I had been experimenting with several shifters, and I think this one has some real promise. It's a rod actuated unit that has rotational and longitudinal motion in one shaft. I have some ideas for the 930 unit which I will check out. May wind up with something like the ZFs. If it doesn't, then I still have my Morse cables to work with.
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