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Old 11th May 2014, 11:27 PM
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I am doing the wiring.................the end! :|
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Old 13th May 2014, 11:36 PM
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After 25 hours in the garage my horn now works, well one of them anyway!

Tomorrow night I should have the headlights and front indicators wired up and the fuse box and relays finalised.

Leaving the dash wiring and the rear light wiring until the body work and tunnel is fitted although it will all be tested beforehand.

All the steering column is wired up along with the mx5 brake switch and instrument cluster.

I've made the wiring loom so that is can be unplugged from the engine loom for when I fit another engine. I've also used the mx5 wiring diagrams so that I can easily, lol, find faults in the future.
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Nice work !!!
I also bought the caterham style indicators and headlights. Now i've got a very good example how to do it.(nice pics in your photostream)
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Old 16th May 2014, 12:37 AM
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Nice work !!!
I also bought the caterham style indicators and headlights. Now i've got a very good example how to do it.(nice pics in your photostream)
Thanks,

Wim.
No problem. I used chopped up front mx5 brake calliper pistons and 12mm mild steel round bar, big washers and chopped up coach bolts to mount to the old mounting points.

Wiring update.

After getting the fuse box all sorted and neat and all the wires needed to the front of the car, I discovered I had a popped 20Amp fuse in the (ad) fan location, I stupidly assumed this was the rad fan being tired at around 10:30pm and spent an hour looking for the problem. Couldn't find the issue and went to bed. Spent another hour in the morning looking at it again and then realised it wasn't the cooling fan fuse at all! Just some f***ng random fuse that doesn't appear anywhere in the wiring diagrams and is for the fan if you have Aircon. WTF the car never came with aircon why did they fit a fuse that's some how now pops whenever it's replaced. Bit p***d off about that.

Anyway I ended up checking all my wiring out sort of and couldn't find a single problem which I suppose is good.

Tonight I never got into the garage till 9pm, two hours later i had fully functioning head lamps !

So I guess this little modification worked



Clocks at night



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side lights in the garage

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