Saturday 5th July. The wiring marathon starts!

 Good friend Dave Maton came up today and brought his wiring and soldering iron kits with him so we could get started on the electrics on the race car. Being a previous race/track car, it had no rear number plate lights, windscreen washers, hooter, side lights or full beam! I'm eventually looking at putting this car back on the road with a full MOT, so all of these things need to be present and working. 

The first job on the agenda was the rear number plate lights. I didn't want a big bulky number plate holder, so I opted for some LED lights, which also serve as number plate bolts. I thought these looked quite good, so I was happy with them. A good start! 

Next on the agenda was sorting out the indicators. They did work, but diagonally! I.e. if you indicated right , you got the offside front and nearside rear working, and if you indicated left, you got the nearside front and offside rear working! 

Now I should also explain that this car has very little of it's original switches and dashboard left and just had a bank of switches for: Left indicator, right indicator, windscreen wipers, electric fan, and a blank. So, the two switches for the indicators were removed and merged onto an indicator stalk bought from car builder solutions. It's not ideal, bit it is a lot better than what we had. 

We then moved onto the headlights which were a bodged LED conversion. Luckily I had a pair of original Lucas headlights in stock, so these were going to be the replacements for the LEDs. Unfortunately while trying to convert back the original headlight set up, we found that somebody had cut most of the original wiring loom out and there was no wiring there for side lights or full beam either.

Time had now caught up with us and Dave had to start heading home, so we called it a day. I would have to buy lots more wiring and Dave would have to return at another point to help get the job done. Not a great start, but at least it's a start. 😏