VKZ24 wrote:Why do people (not saying that you did though) always want to eff with the factory wiring? We watched (and helped where we could) the team pitted beside us at the fall CMP race work on their car ALL DAY on Friday, Saturday, and half of Sunday. They had hacked up the (perfectly fine) factory wiring and it was not good. They ended up finding a short by accident that finally got their car running. Had they left the wiring alone they wou;d have been running when the green flag dropped.
I re-wired our ignition switch because it had an issue when we bought car, not because I thought it would be fun. The only other re-wiring we have done was to move the battery to the trunk, and even then I was nervous about it not working for some reason. Luckily it has been fine, so I have left all the other wiring as is!
Similarly we left the majority of our car's wiring untouched-- disconnect something, tape off the end, and zip-tie it out of the way. Until now we had kept modifications to the same as you (work around cruddy ignition switch, relocate batter) and had to repair two severed factory connections (radiator fan and alternator (!) )
The scads of time doctawife alluded to recently have been spent wiring in lights on Tetanus, and it's been slower work than one might expect specifically because we didn't want to mess with the factory wiring-- I put in a fresh fuse holder, relay, and separate wire for the lights so we wouldn't have to even touch the factory harness. It's had a hard enough life.
ONSET/Tetanus Racing, est. 2008.
Guest drives: NSF, Rocket Surgery, Property Devaluation, Terminally Confused, Team Sputnik, The Syndicate, Pit Crew Revenge, Spank, Hella Shitty, Sir Jackie Stewart's Coin Purse, Nine Finger Drifters, Salty Thunder, Panting Polar Bear, Vistabeam, Hangar 13, and Escape Velocity.
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