it'd be pretty sweet to flip that little cover open and then arm nitrous and then take off. hehehe. well thats just my opinion.-Danny 
Mod Question - Rocker Switch Controls
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Mod Question - Rocker Switch Controls
There has been a lot of inspiration to rebuild my 80 as "my car" vs doing it the "proper restoration way"... One of the mods I'm in the middle of is converting the ashtray/lighter compartment into a rocker switch panel (under the door). Current design is to have rockers controlling (via relays):
Engine Fans
Fuel Pump
What other suggestions do you have? One suggested the ignition power...
Thanks for the ideas...
Engine Fans
Fuel Pump
What other suggestions do you have? One suggested the ignition power...
Thanks for the ideas...
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From: Waterloo ontario Canada
I don't believe in using switches to control power. I like relays, they are about $5, reliably switch 30 amps and the only thing I use switches for is controlling the relays. I have a whole bank of relays and trouble shooting is very simple.
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From: Kansas City, MO ...I'd like to go fishing and catch a fishstick. That'd be convenient. - Mitch Hedberg
Don't our 80's have mechanical fuel pumps?? How's a switch gonna control that?
My brother is a screen printer and is planning on making a new idiot light cover to replace the seatbelt warning light. Just haven't figured out what to have him make me. He will have to make about 10 of them. A couple will be worthless, to set the printer correctly, but there should be about 5 or 6 extras. If I come up with something good I'll share the spares.
My brother is a screen printer and is planning on making a new idiot light cover to replace the seatbelt warning light. Just haven't figured out what to have him make me. He will have to make about 10 of them. A couple will be worthless, to set the printer correctly, but there should be about 5 or 6 extras. If I come up with something good I'll share the spares.
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From: Frisco TX
Originally Posted by Ak. Mal
Don't our 80's have mechanical fuel pumps?? How's a switch gonna control that?
My brother is a screen printer and is planning on making a new idiot light cover to replace the seatbelt warning light. Just haven't figured out what to have him make me. He will have to make about 10 of them. A couple will be worthless, to set the printer correctly, but there should be about 5 or 6 extras. If I come up with something good I'll share the spares.
My brother is a screen printer and is planning on making a new idiot light cover to replace the seatbelt warning light. Just haven't figured out what to have him make me. He will have to make about 10 of them. A couple will be worthless, to set the printer correctly, but there should be about 5 or 6 extras. If I come up with something good I'll share the spares.
I am definitely interested! Keep me posted... Ed
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From: Frisco TX
Originally Posted by norvalwilhelm
I don't believe in using switches to control power. I like relays, they are about $5, reliably switch 30 amps and the only thing I use switches for is controlling the relays. I have a whole bank of relays and trouble shooting is very simple.
Have built a relay box that will mount in the engine compartment on the firewall (just to the left of the wiper motor. Switches under the ashtray cover will control the relays. Plan to tap power for the switches from the old lighter and use it's ground as well (rockers in parallel). This will allow me to have to pass only a limited number of wires into the engine compartment and to the relay box.
Ak. Mal, my 80 has a mechanical fuel pump also... I'm going to have the wiring done and ready to convert it to an electric pump in the near future.
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From: I blame my Dyslexia MD
When i do my rebuild i intend to use the ashtray in my 76 as the switch center for fuel pump, fans, water pump, nitrous arming, and i already have converted the lighter into a kill switch
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A few pix of my console in the '72 there on my site, the switches are pretty close to that even now.....I have the HVAC working through later model vacuum solenoids/relays, to actuate the dash pots for airflow, and the black button in the midle is a built in garage door opener, works only when engine is running, built in remote also controlls the computer for anti theft, ....
also the lights are for the 2 injector banks, and the spark layout in sequence....and F pump, and service engine....
one of the first things I did when ditching that old mechanical crap.....went through a complete overhaul and final tune up on the wiring some 3 years ago....
GENE
also the lights are for the 2 injector banks, and the spark layout in sequence....and F pump, and service engine....
one of the first things I did when ditching that old mechanical crap.....went through a complete overhaul and final tune up on the wiring some 3 years ago....
GENE
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From: Aussie expat in Saudi Arabia
Originally Posted by Ak. Mal
Don't our 80's have mechanical fuel pumps?? How's a switch gonna control that?
My brother is a screen printer and is planning on making a new idiot light cover to replace the seatbelt warning light. Just haven't figured out what to have him make me. He will have to make about 10 of them. A couple will be worthless, to set the printer correctly, but there should be about 5 or 6 extras. If I come up with something good I'll share the spares.
My brother is a screen printer and is planning on making a new idiot light cover to replace the seatbelt warning light. Just haven't figured out what to have him make me. He will have to make about 10 of them. A couple will be worthless, to set the printer correctly, but there should be about 5 or 6 extras. If I come up with something good I'll share the spares.
"Get in, sit down, shut up, HOLD ON!"
I dunno if you would have enough room to be able to write that clearly on the seat belt warning lense, would look good tho....
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From: Frisco TX
Originally Posted by pillowmeto
When i do my rebuild i intend to use the ashtray in my 76 as the switch center for fuel pump, fans, water pump, nitrous arming, and i already have converted the lighter into a kill switch
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Thanks! did you hook the kill switch to a relay that basically spliced your BATT (power to the distributor)?
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From: Kansas City, MO ...I'd like to go fishing and catch a fishstick. That'd be convenient. - Mitch Hedberg
Another switch I'm going to install is on the neutral safety switch on the clutch. When I bought my car, the fu(ktard previous owner cut the two wires going to the relay and connected them, meaning that I didn't have to press the clutch in to start the car. While wiring it back up, I realized that it didn't matter which wire went where, just as long as when the clutch was pressed in, the relay would connect the two wires. I plan to install a switch on one of the wires as a kill switch. By not allowing any signal through one wire, it is impossible to start the car.
So, tucked up under the dash I plan to install that switch.
So, tucked up under the dash I plan to install that switch.
