[Slow355Participant Victoriahectic spec 355 vs ss ute View build HERE Member since: March 2, 2015 Posts: 322]

My mate made a patch loom to plug strait into neutral safety and reverse plug. Easy to wire them in

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[Slow355Participant Victoriahectic spec 355 vs ss ute View build HERE Member since: March 2, 2015 Posts: 322]

So finally got it all in and working, been busy with work up late quoting jobs for next year so ute is on the back burner and looking at new cars etc. But as usual nothing goes perfect, had the slider just about cut out 100% and the prick snapped so in vid you can see nothing in the gear selector slot yet. But you get the idea, its quite good and pretty happy with results.
I earthed the leds to the shifter body and the loom for leds goes up past the air con controls around under dash where fuse box is. So easy to get to the Dakota box for programming.
You will notice because i altered reverse lockout it is a little awkward to use but thats all good as didnt want to cut a slot in black fascias.
The dakota unit very easy to program, some may say its wanky but i like stuffing about with pointless shit haha

VID OF FACTORY SHIFT LIGHTS AND B&M WORKING TOGETHER

http://vid797.photobucket.com/albums/yy255/dobesz/IMG_1442_zps4t0d44it.mp4

Hope to get the door trims back soon from the trimmer as well as the hand brake boot. The sound and heat deadening worked a treat the floor pan stays with zero heat now for quite a long time of driving and once it does get heat its not scorching hot like it used to be. Loving al the black carpet and facias etc, made the interior look a million times better.

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[Slow355Participant Victoriahectic spec 355 vs ss ute View build HERE Member since: March 2, 2015 Posts: 322]

vs manta 218 wrote:

Ok looks like I’m throwing my shammy away then and drying with a cloth, shammys suck ass anyway your paint on ute come up mint man yeah dan throw your mcguires in the bin and get some 3D for sure also slow 355 I have 2 mates one a painter and one a panel beater and both are willing to show me how to buff but when I ask if they will do it they just laugh and say yeah right and walk away assholes lol

 

Hahah my guy is the same but when i threaten to let someone else touch it he does it haha. Its an all day job when done right, when i clay bared my car that took ages in itself. Each to their own, ill wash and wax but not cut.

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[Slow355Participant Victoriahectic spec 355 vs ss ute View build HERE Member since: March 2, 2015 Posts: 322]

Yea dont use a shamy, always use a cloth or be like me and befriend a panel beater and never worry about how to buff a car etc. Its a fine art not something to practise on your 15k paint job lads

All i do is wash with soapy water and maybe a mothers wax sometimes

 

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[Slow355Participant Victoriahectic spec 355 vs ss ute View build HERE Member since: March 2, 2015 Posts: 322]

So drove the ute for first time in months, forgot what a pig it is, no not angry pig as in handling and braking. Good thing is the sound deadening and heat dedening worked a treat, drove for 45mins and carpet on floor literally showed no signs of heat.  Very happy. Have a list of things to do before xmas.

• The brake shudder is horrendous, so going to drop it off at brake place and throw keys at them, simply say fix it.
• Dropped the door trims off to be redone in correct colour codes
• Getting the handbrake knob redone in leather
• Get new pacies of mate and new exhaust
• New Y piece as never made properly to start with
• Change all fluids
• New filter and sort out why has an erratic idle, loves to let idle go way under 500 then shoot up to 1500 and down again when under no load

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[Slow355Participant Victoriahectic spec 355 vs ss ute View build HERE Member since: March 2, 2015 Posts: 322]

VRSenator065 wrote:

After all, I have to remember it is just a little 600hp commuter

Just me or is she running hot?

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[Slow355Participant Victoriahectic spec 355 vs ss ute View build HERE Member since: March 2, 2015 Posts: 322]

I had a lower arm bent by nearly an inch, that doesnt help handeling, however helps to roll your guards. No idea how it happened.

Does you car track all over the place when braking at lights on main roads etc? My ute track width must be odd as on busy roads at braking points before lights gets all over the place if this makes sense. I am told the wide wheels make your car slightly wider than average car and doesnt sit in the grooves that cars have worn into road?

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[Slow355Participant Victoriahectic spec 355 vs ss ute View build HERE Member since: March 2, 2015 Posts: 322]

Was saying this today to cav, end of the day they are 20 year old holdens, that even in the day were not great handling. Not to mention a big fat v8 doesn’t help. Yes they raced them but they also had hundreds of thousands of dollars to play with them. Come drive my one and you will think yours is an f1 car.

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[Slow355Participant Victoriahectic spec 355 vs ss ute View build HERE Member since: March 2, 2015 Posts: 322]

Can get a change over rack for bugger all, i did one when we swapped motor out. Drove my ute first time in 4 months, wow its crap to drive lol, be straight to brake joint as has terrible brake shudder and likes to pull to the left.

I dont think i can run strut brace in my ute because of manifold

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[Slow355Participant Victoriahectic spec 355 vs ss ute View build HERE Member since: March 2, 2015 Posts: 322]

Looking good mate! Seen this about few years back, tuff looking rig. WHat was your best run at heathcote? I only ever done passes there never hit caulder.

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[Slow355Participant Victoriahectic spec 355 vs ss ute View build HERE Member since: March 2, 2015 Posts: 322]

Sorted the issue out as found that the leds dont cut out until 3.9v and the dakota was always putting out a little bit more than this, so i went to jaycar and got some resistors and wired them to each led.

Was not too hard as poked resistor wire through the led negative wire then higher up on the positive wire so then could heat shrink over the top of it once soldered.

Was a bit time consuming but it worked and now they work perfectly!! My loome i originally made was really neat, i couldnt be bothered remaking it so just hacked into it, does the job but a little back yard looking now. Why is nothing simple lol

 

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[Slow355Participant Victoriahectic spec 355 vs ss ute View build HERE Member since: March 2, 2015 Posts: 322]

Killer build mate looks mint on those rims!!!

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[Slow355Participant Victoriahectic spec 355 vs ss ute View build HERE Member since: March 2, 2015 Posts: 322]

I know cav doesnt like bullet, but had bullet on my car for a few years with zero problems.

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[Slow355Participant Victoriahectic spec 355 vs ss ute View build HERE Member since: March 2, 2015 Posts: 322]

So found the problem and makes zero sense to me. I remembered had some other LEDS, i quickly wired one up (large red one) and hooked it to the unit. Works perfect, turns on and off when it should.

Had one of my other spare LEDS and plugged this directly in and has constant glow so its definitely the LED type.

I then managed to get multymeter positive prong into the dakota output terminal for 1st gear, yep it has constant slight power. So obviously my leds are more sensitive where as the others need more power, not sure what to do now as the other leds are big and will not fit with this set up.

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[Slow355Participant Victoriahectic spec 355 vs ss ute View build HERE Member since: March 2, 2015 Posts: 322]

Yea it is designed to run LEDs. However. I know led house lights have issues with diming.

when I get home I’ll hook it up to dimmer switch off the cigi lighter lite

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[Slow355Participant Victoriahectic spec 355 vs ss ute View build HERE Member since: March 2, 2015 Posts: 322]

So founf a wiring diagram for the single led style set up as one in box only had diagram for if you used there indicator.

So i wired up 12v to the DIM position on the Dakota, now when u diconect the 12v selector light is far brighter than the others which are just a faint glow.

However when 12v connected as if lights are on it glows the leds far too bright that its hrd to tell the diferance between whats selected and whats not.

Is the dimmer for cluster like a variable volt switch? As in less volts dimmer lights etc? As thinking maybe should be wired to dimmer switch not hard 12v like it states.

Or maybe its the leds themselves as in not variable enough.

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[Slow355Participant Victoriahectic spec 355 vs ss ute View build HERE Member since: March 2, 2015 Posts: 322]

Hey mate I know you didn’t do drop down unit but did you wire up Dakota?

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[Slow355Participant Victoriahectic spec 355 vs ss ute View build HERE Member since: March 2, 2015 Posts: 322]

Immortality wrote:

Try extending the LED earths wire to the same point as the main unit, to eliminate the possibility of a ground loop.

Yea tried that as was easy as ground for unit is from the cigi lighter loom, so tried grounding the leds to this as well. Makes no sense, as had some left over leds and pluged them straight into unit and they did same thing. Unless i fried something in unit?

As i didnt label wires so to figure out what LED was what would plug them in and unplug until correct light lit up if that makes sense.

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[Slow355Participant Victoriahectic spec 355 vs ss ute View build HERE Member since: March 2, 2015 Posts: 322]

So as you can see i soldered all the grounds from the leds to on point so could ground to body. Is this incorrect?

I simply extended the positive led tails with a plug half way so could unplug it at shifter location as have situated the brain part near fuse box. As you can see in pic the earths completely separate to the positives etc

 

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[Slow355Participant Victoriahectic spec 355 vs ss ute View build HERE Member since: March 2, 2015 Posts: 322]

Anyone wired the dakota up?

So got it all wired up and for some reason all the lights have a slight glow to them any ideas?

-the earth to unit is good

-the earth from globes is good or they would not work

-all solder points are heat shrinked individually so no chance of them shorting.

It works perfect in 2nd mode where every light lights up other than the gear you are in.

 

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