Author Topic: Sir Percivals 2Fifty Cal build thread  (Read 127979 times)

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Re: Sir Percivals 2Fifty Cal build thread
« Reply #300 on: November 19, 2017, 06:39:24 AM »
WOW!!!!!!
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Re: Sir Percivals 2Fifty Cal build thread
« Reply #301 on: November 19, 2017, 09:22:10 AM »
Sir P.

If you think that's a lot of wire you should see behind the dash of an SL.  It's frightening.
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Re: Sir Percivals 2Fifty Cal build thread
« Reply #302 on: November 19, 2017, 09:55:57 AM »
not just a simple overdash as the 430 :o I hope you have detailed instructions from DNA or you have made your own as I will be doing this in the summer next year, thats asuming I can find a low mileage 2.8 z3.
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Re: Sir Percivals 2Fifty Cal build thread
« Reply #303 on: November 19, 2017, 03:42:22 PM »
Thanks Madman. Got the brackets on the dashboard support cut off today. I am lucky enough to live 15 minutes away from DNA so I shall be nipping down for instructions on bits of the dash.

I have also been given the name of a top car electrician and I am not ashamed to say that, if need be, I will call him in to do the actual instrument wiring...although I fully intend to do all the mechanical and physical stuff myself, including actually fitting the dash and getting the heater controls set up.

Being colour blind does not help with the wiring.
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Re: Sir Percivals 2Fifty Cal build thread
« Reply #304 on: November 19, 2017, 04:25:46 PM »
Thats handy, except for being colour blind

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Re: Sir Percivals 2Fifty Cal build thread
« Reply #305 on: November 19, 2017, 07:44:38 PM »
I love it that you have ripped out the entire dashboard and front passenger seat, and yet among all that scary stuff you still left the map book and water in the netting storage!! 😀😀
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Re: Sir Percivals 2Fifty Cal build thread
« Reply #306 on: November 19, 2017, 07:47:56 PM »
Well you know, just in case!
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Re: Sir Percivals 2Fifty Cal build thread
« Reply #307 on: November 19, 2017, 10:55:15 PM »
Sir P.  I thought most electricians were colour blind.
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Re: Sir Percivals 2Fifty Cal build thread
« Reply #308 on: November 27, 2017, 08:44:24 PM »
Dashboard roughly positioned;

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Re: Sir Percivals 2Fifty Cal build thread
« Reply #309 on: November 27, 2017, 09:55:43 PM »
Coming on nicely Sir P. I hope you got a detailed wiring diagram or are the wires simply extended
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Re: Sir Percivals 2Fifty Cal build thread
« Reply #310 on: November 28, 2017, 02:55:30 AM »
Hey. Looking good. Is the dash supplied or modified from the Beemer’s original?
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Re: Sir Percivals 2Fifty Cal build thread
« Reply #311 on: November 28, 2017, 11:23:53 AM »
Coming on nicely Sir P. I hope you got a detailed wiring diagram or are the wires simply extended
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Got a fairly comprehensive wiring diagram. Most wires are extended from the three coloured plugs that go into the back of the instrument cluster printed circuit board, then some come off the light switch, some off the three new senders (oil temp/pressure & water temp) and a few can be connected straight up (fog lights for instance, & A/C)

Trouble is that there are many awkward colour combinations that it is almost impossible to replicate (for instance the fog lights are again a good example; the four wires are yellow+blue, yellow+brown, yellow+light purple and yellow+dark purple....) each one will need to be extended with the coloured wire I can get hold of....so its all going to get a bit complicated.

Hey. Looking good. Is the dash supplied or modified from the Beemer’s original?

The dash is/was a DNA moulding. The front of the original BM dash is retained (the bit with the windscreen vents) so is the associated pipework ...then the new dash is joined to it on the moulding curve....you just loose the "eyeballs"
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Re: Sir Percivals 2Fifty Cal build thread
« Reply #312 on: November 28, 2017, 11:31:18 AM »
Oh and I forgot to say, the original ignition switch is cut off and the wires extended to the new position in the centre of the dash....needless to say that these are meaty wires (30amp) and must be extended using wires with the same load capacity.

Whereas most of the instrument wiring is very low load and therefore very slim....which is just as well because there is not a great deal of space behind the dash.
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Re: Sir Percivals 2Fifty Cal build thread
« Reply #313 on: November 28, 2017, 06:01:30 PM »
sounds basically what I expected, more or less extending existing wires to relocate in a different position. The Scudo has similar issues but on a smaller scale.
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Re: Sir Percivals 2Fifty Cal build thread
« Reply #314 on: November 29, 2017, 04:59:49 AM »
Perhaps you could find a Z3 loom from a wrecking yard?
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