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[sixtyeight]

made a nice little aluminium voltage regulator today..

 

out of some:

scrap aluminium

3D printed end caps

LM350T

resistors

a capacitor

some wire

some heat shrink

some screws

the spade connectors from an original vreg.

 

total cost - ~$3.00

 

Edited by sixtyeight, 27 October 2016 - 07:37 AM.

[clovus]

Great work Tim!

[sixtyeight]

finally got everything prepared for wiring. I hadn't painted the upper and lower dash rails so couldn't perma-mount the interior - wheel, heater, megajolt, switch panel etc etc, so did that today - turned out ok with limited time! excuse the crappy photo

 

 

then mounted up the fuse boxes on the inner wing - I wanted to put them up on the firewall but no room.

 

Edited by sixtyeight, 30 October 2016 - 12:23 PM.

[sixtyeight]

so made a start on the wiring.. 2 wires connected! still a nice little milestone.

 

all the right stuff:

 

 

 

alternator and temp sender

 

[timmy850]

bleedin' 'eck..
 
translucent reservoirs would make this easier than the tin can ones! 

You can get translucent master cylinder extension pieces from the usual suspects so you can keep an eye on the fluid level..
http://www.minispare...cs/BHA4661.aspx

[sixtyeight]

Ah thanks for that! Will keep that in mind for next time

[sixtyeight]

no big update.. still not running.

 

have made up a switch panel out of 3mm aluminium with a big engine start button, because I like engine start buttons!

 

 

90% of my way through running the wires. all the front is run, just need to run the rear stuff, terminate all the ends, and then cover the loom in self amalgamating silicon tape.

 

just a mess of wires at the moment!

 

 

 

 

 

[xydte]

awesome work. Especially underneath the car!!

[sixtyeight]

Cheers xydte :)

 

Have made up a mount for tacho and shift lights (from megajolt), out of some scrap aly and 3d printer

 

 

 

 

[sixtyeight]

finished off the enclosure for the leds today. put a panel mount rj45 connector in to attach it to the megajolt. quite happy with how it has turned out! Just waiting for the LEDs to turn up and can then finish off the wiring.

 

[sixtyeight]

had a busy evening with the strippers and crimpers. got the fuse boxes and relays wired up finally. was dreading doing this! Also tidied up the wiring a little, getting ready to wrap it in tape.

 

 

 

this is a 'New Era' headlight relay, has two relays in one for main and dip beam.

 

[timmy850]

The wiring is looking great. Definitely an upgrade of the two fuses originally fitted! I've got a couple of the New Era relays to go in my car too

[sixtyeight]

If I had more room I'd have run two New Era relays, one for the drivers side and one for near side lights.. might upgrade to another one down the track. 

 

Just incase the bright LEDs get annoying, I bought some electronics gubbins today to make up a dimmer circuit for the shift/rpm lights. You shouldn't just dim LEDs with a higher resistor or  potentiometer, they don't dim too well that way - you should ideally make a PWM (Pulse width modulated) driver, and the duty cycle of the pulses changes the brightness of the LED. put a potentiometer onto a 555 timer and you have an adjustable PWM driver. I'm using the circuit from here:

 

http://pcbheaven.com...LED_PWM_Dimmer/

 

Edited by sixtyeight, 29 November 2016 - 06:47 AM.

[sixtyeight]

continuing the nerdy stuff..

 

I made the PWM dimmer for the shift lights tonight. it just fits in the housing! Nice black anodised aluminium adjustment knob.

 

 

[sixtyeight]

rpm/shift lights and tacho housing finished and mounted