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Post by wurlycorner » Fri Nov 13, 2015 12:24 pm

Awesome :twisted:
Well done.
Have some :jdm: points and


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Post by jjmartin349571 » Sat Nov 14, 2015 12:52 am

Cheers guys. Finished putting it back together this eve and took it for a drive. Had to pull over and take a pic whilst I was out, couldn't help myself :lol:

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The camera flash exaggerates the whiteness of the wheels a bit :lol: she needs a good wash too, not been cleaned in a year or so :oops:

All in all I'm glad to be back in my lude, it feels like it's coming together. Next up is lowering and a service methinks :)

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Post by jjmartin349571 » Wed Nov 18, 2015 9:40 pm

I finished off the wiring at the weekend.

There is a 2 wire loom between the pole and the interior accessory loom, this didn't come with mine as it'd be a nightmare to remove from the donor car and is an easy one to make. So here is the final piece of the electrical puzzle:

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I found the easiest place to route the wiring through was the grommet under the fuse box, in the above pic I had already drilled the grommet and put it on my wiring. Here's the location in the bulkhead where it came from, could be handy for anyone trying to run wires from the engine bay to the cabin:

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Lately I've been practicing my soldering :) Here is where I joined the pigtail of the OEM bumper pole connecting loom to my home made special - a few weeks ago this probably would have been a kilo blob of solder with the wires at 90 degrees :lol: I even pushed the boat out and used a bit of heat shrink...

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All wrapped up:

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I then cable tied everything out of sight - it was a good chance to tidy up my horn wiring as well which whilst being functional, looked like multi-coloured spaghetti. I think it might have been the first time in my life that I actually used cable ties for securing cables. On a cable tidying high I then went into the driver's footwell and tidied up the loose wiring in there as it had been catching my feet lately :evil:

With that all done it was time to push the button :scaredtoss:

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I'm so content now :lol:

As if things couldn't get any better, I opened the coin tray and found this:

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That was a few coffees paid for at work :lol:

All in all a productive weekend :)

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Post by newkid » Wed Nov 18, 2015 10:23 pm

8-)

Do they light up or just green at the top?

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Post by jjmartin349571 » Wed Nov 18, 2015 10:29 pm

It lights up with the sidelights, although the reflective lens catches the light quite well during the daytime.

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Post by newkid » Wed Nov 18, 2015 10:31 pm

Hmm wonder if one from a delsol would fit :?:

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Post by jjmartin349571 » Wed Nov 18, 2015 10:33 pm

I imagine the fitment is mainly down to the bracket, Have you got a pic of the mast unit? Maybe a bracket could be made up.


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Post by newkid » Wed Nov 18, 2015 10:35 pm

No :lol:

Was on a friends JDM delsol, wiring still in the car I believe, might look into it.

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Post by wurlycorner » Wed Nov 18, 2015 10:35 pm

newkid wrote:Hmm wonder if one from a delsol would fit :?:
Someone has looked into that before on here. :think: From memory they don't, cause the sol has a much deeper bumper, so the unit is more bulky downwards and doesn't fit in the space in a lude one...

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