Wow ioTus, what a beautiful build! Hey, if you want to spend a few days in the Bay Area after I finish up my fabrication, we can tear down and wire tuck my factory harness (using new high temp expandable sleeving and DR-25!) together. I'll pay you for your time!

Check out my build, maybe you'll find a ***** in my armor.

-Ryan @ RGHTBrainDesign

 

I just read this from start to finish and i love this build. The perfect combo "resto" and "mod". I also like the effort you've gone to to do a factory interior restoration. It's very similar to what I'm hoping to achieve.

Coincidentally i also just did a factory horn button resto so it was timely that read this through. I tried the nail varnish method. It looks great and is easy but what worked better for me was lightly sanding out the scratches then polishing with Mothers plastic polish. It looks much closer to original (i have an unused NOS horn button to compare with.

I describe what i did here (with photos): AusRotary.com ? View topic - How to restore clear plastic eg lens, horn pads etc

 

No updates?

 

 

Was thinking maybe he sold the car... I don't remember. But this car has always been amazing. You should have seen the one before this one. The blue one. Mother of God!

 

He was just posting photos on Facebook yesterday so he still has it. I told him it was time for an electric fan.

 

Nothing beats the torque of a mechanical fan, but if you have the charge system for it, by all means go electric.

I'm dropping in a US Govt LMTV Truck's VEC as my replacement fusebox. Just need to identify the internal pinout by trial and error, but I'll get a 8 Circuit setup with Circuit Breakers instead of fuses, and everything relayed. Super reliable. Resto-updating old wiring is AWESOME! Using all m22759/32 as replacement too. Screw it.

 

I went with an American Autowire fuse box for my REPU build. I was able to source add on parts to include extra circuits for the EFI stuff. Power distribution is similar to ioTus's final drawings. A single 4ga wire off the alternator goes into the cab and to the fuse box. A smaller 8ga wire goes to the battery and passes through the original main fuse and Ammeter shunt. I've got that wired up and working so it tells me when the system is done charging the battery or the alternator isn't charging. Right now the radio and ECU are grounded to the same location, which is causing some subtle alternator whine. I'll fix that next time I have the dash apart. Very few circuits are powered by the ignition switch anymore. Fuel pump, ECU, E-Fan, wipers, headlights, are all run off relays so only low power passes through the steering column. Power to the relays comes off a 12ga wire from the fuse box. I really do need to diagram everything I did before I forget. The American Autowire kit has labels on all the wires, but I've added a bunch since then that don't have labels. It was fun...but I was glad to be done. I still have to wire loom everything up now that I've stopped adding more wires to the bundles.

 

Electric fan is brilliant. Even without swapping alternator aye. So nice being able to control when it comes on. Just make sure to get a decent controller and not just rely on a manual switch and your memory hahah. I highly recommend a Davies Craig controller if anyone is swapping over

 

You the man! Love this car/build!

 

I wanted to bump the thread and see how you and the car were doing. Been some time sive I've seen you post.

 

This was one of my favorite builds too!