This is the vertical-mounted Painless Toggle
switch panel. It comes pre-wired, fused
and all color-coded. This style could also
be mounted horizontally under a dash and
just turn the toggles 90 degrees. |
One more tip we always use: Run a good ground
wire (we use #6 welding cable) from the battery
to the engine block and to a good location
by the dash to run all your ground wires to.
Transbrake ground, water and fuel pump grounds,
throttle stop solenoids, shifter solenoids,
delay box, everything should be grounded to
cable that goes directly to the battery(s).
If you use the frame or aluminum panels for
a ground, you are asking for electrical problems.
This is where
the new wires pretty much end up. The
loom that comes from Painless Wiring
is the slickest thing I have worked with.
Relays for the shifter and Fuel pump
can be seen as can the MSD 7AL-3. The
Optima Red battery is on the other side
of the foot panel as is the shut-off
and master cylinder. |
New dash panel
that Andy carved out of some aluminum
at work including the Digital Delay Mega
450 delay box (it is a lot more than
that with built-in practice tree and
playback digital tachometer) and the
two gauges we feel are the most important,
oil pressure and water temperature. The
blue button is to reset the playback
feature and the red light is a low oil
pressure warning light. What is a steering
wheel without three buttons? I don't
know; both our dragsters are set up that
way. |
That is a quick update of where we are, but
there are a lot of improvements we have to
make and a lot of home-made stuff we will be
using on this dragster. Stay tuned, as the
next few months will be a lot of fun trying
to see what we can get out of the "Back-2-Basics" before
our race season up here ends.
Good luck in your racing and be safe out there!
Jok
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