started to hook up my new gauges at lunchtime...

i remember them being piss easy to fit

how wrong i was

sofar ive been at it an hour and i've only got the oil pressure sender put in, and the gauge lights wired up

gonna have to take the afternoon off to get it finished today whilst it's still light! lol

 

what gauges have you got jim. Fancy a tear up with my corsa tonite?

 

i dont want to lose rich

got some carbon fibre auto-gauge jobbies off of cossymad, look quite cool and fill up my hole in the dash nicely

just a shame i not got the correct mount yet gonna be mounted on a peice of card stuck to the dash for now i think

 

I doubt you will lose jim. dont think it will do much past 110 really.

Accerlation is pretty impressive for a corsa tho. And it sounds the nuts

 

f**k me it's COOOOOOLD outside

ok, a few cuts, a few tears and 2 10a fuses later ...

i now have 2 working gauges... woohoo...

volts and oil pressure both successfully wired in (and they now don't turn off when i turn the lights on )

still got water temp to doo... need a deep reach 13mm socket to swap the sender over tho...

also i better hope my gauge mounting thingie turns up sharpish, coz the big bit of card thats holding them in at the moment looks shitter than a shit thing that's shit

 

jim ill see if i got time to collect a 13mm deep socket from work if ya want

what time ya wanna meet at halfway house

 

thank god for fused circuits huh Jim

If only everyone bothered

alex

 

yeah his only learned about fuses since kenny got the hump dealing with all his bodged wiring and paper clip bypass's his carf had on saturday


since then he now thinks gonna be a good idea to fuse everything including the earths

 

better safe than sorry!

 

So what you reckon off the lights @ S/end then Jim ?

Pitty about that speed camera being up ahead or things could have been interesting.

Car looks good, the 1st time i have seen it up close

 

well you beat me

expected you to pull a lot more tho to be honest... never expected to win... lol i got less pwer, more weight, and i cant launch for shit

 

now now children,you know its against the law to be racing on the public highway

 

You did quite well

but my RST is only holding 15 psi at the moment and feels quite slow Got to get back to Powers and have it set up and holding the usual 18 psi

Pops is there a law against accelerating as fast as you like upto the speed limit?

 

yes! they could prosecute you in a few different ways,dangerous driving, careless driving, racing on a public highway... etc etc

 

sorry andy but phil's right there... lol

anyway update on the gauge situation (i know nobody cares, but just let me be, ok )

ok the taped in bit of card dash install went down well at southend lastnight so i've made a new and improved bit of card up

gonna cover it in... wait for it... gaffer tape to give it that "bling" effect

anyhw, finally got the wire for the water temp sender in the bay n connected, just need to put the actual sender into the engine and i'm ready to rock i must also point out that the original ford sender came apart in my hands when i tried to take the plug off of it... lol

and i now also have a 17mm spanner stuck to one of my screwdrivers (long story... )

anyway, gonna check dimensions on the temporary panel and hopefully get something working by the end of the day