Morton's white VQ Statesman

[Disturbed_vegeta]

god morton..every time i look at your thread your always doing something to the stato...i wish i had your motivation!

[TVR-190]

nice ride g/l with it!

[Pub247]

hey morton how much did the cable cost what gauge you get??

[Morton]

keep us posted i wanna see how this turns out so i can re-locate my battery too

Haha, yeah, I want to see how it turns out too I'm just winging it ^_^

I spent a few hours walking back and forth between Jaycar/Supercheap/Repco pricing up all the different combinations of parts that would get me where I wanted to go, and ended up buying a bit from each for the cheapest combination.

god morton..every time i look at your thread your always doing something to the stato...i wish i had your motivation!

Haha, yeah ^_^ Thing is, all it takes is one squirt through the hills, and I'm dying to improve the car in one way or another.

nice ride g/l with it!

Cheers mate ^_^

hey morton how much did the cable cost what gauge you get??

$8.00 per meter for 4GA. I bought 7m of it.
For the earth, I used a pre-made 0.5m 4GA strap with terminals on either end. That cost $14 I think. If I was to buy and make that strap myself, I would've paid $10 for the terminals and $8 for the extra meter of cable. Cheaper and less effort to buy that part pre-fab

$20 for the battery box
$17 for the 500A 12v switch
$3ea for new battery terminals with wingnuts

[Pub247]

Cheers Morton one more obviously the switch is an isolator you putting it on neg or positive? and is it going to be mounted in the boot?

[Morton]

Always isolate on the positive side. And I'm doing mine in the boot. Integrating it into the battery box so it's all nice and tidy.

If I get voltage drop through the 4ga and increases in my crank time, I'll run down some 2ga. Then use the 4ga for a hot earth kit ^_^

[AirStrike]

4AG! We ran 00AG with mine and it still doesn't crank as hard as it used to.

[Morton]

Yeah, I'm not expecting anything perfect. If this proves a hastle, the wire is perfect to cut up for a hot earth which I'm going to do anyway. So there's no loss

I'm curious to find out just how badly this wire will react.

In theory, I should lose 0.72 volts over 24ft of 4ga cable.
I would lose 0.46 volts with 2ga
I would lose 0.28 volts with 0ga

Should be interesting

[Blown V6 Hatch]

Make sure you run an earth strap from the engine to chassis aswell as from the battery to body.

[Pub247]

Cheers for info morton i have seen some setup on the earth side i dont why but anyway rep left

[AirStrike]

Make sure you run an earth strap from the engine to chassis aswell as from the battery to body.

Spot on! Had issues with mine untill we changed it.

[Morton]

Yups, I've got a shiny new length of 8ga earth wire terminal'd up and ready to go Cheers for the advice Tim ^_^

[Bz Kn33z]

Good job mate, photos will be good when its done alot more room down there to hide stuff. it would be a good idea for me to do this so i can get more weight into the back and get more traction

[Morton]

Climate control is back in, she's getting there. This could be an all-nighter

[vn calais manual]

your crazy :P. and i like it lol

[Dirbatua]

Climate control is back in, she's getting there. This could be an all-nighter

so nothing out of the ordinary for you

[Morton]

Haha, cheers guys

Yeah, 12:30am and so far the dash is back on, and the wiring funs have begun. I decided to re-wire my sound system, and run the wires properly so they're not all just stuffed behind the head unit. Did everything properly with solder, too - neatly sealing all the joins and twist-taping the wires into respective bundles. All looks dead factory now, and is tucked away nicely.

Now the real wiring nightmare begins, finding out what plugs and looms have fallen down from where they should be, and finding ways to tuck them back up into the right places.

Fun night ahead!

[stocky]

did you remember the vents this time? plugs shouldnt be that hard. remember that the instrument cluster has the 4th connector on the bottom of it

[savage1987]

Awesome. Good luck with that

I've had my fun for tonight, mine was easy...

• Problem: fix the non functioning torque convertor lockup
• Fix: attach the plug that powers it

Only 11.10pm and I'm off to bed!
Jealous?

Sam

[Morton]

did you remember the vents this time? plugs shouldnt be that hard. remember that the instrument cluster has the 4th connector on the bottom of it

Haha yeah, I was staring at it for a while before it clicked

Awesome. Good luck with that

I've had my fun for tonight, mine was easy...

• Problem: fix the non functioning torque convertor lockup
• Fix: attach the plug that powers it

Only 11.10pm and I'm off to bed!
Jealous?

Sam

You sonofabitch, that's not a list ^_^ rofl I hate you



In other news, I thought I accidentally left a plug tucked up behind the dashboard, just spent an hour searching frantically through wiring diagrams, and trying to figure out what this final plug on the passenger side mated up to.

Just then, it clicked. That's the diagnostic plug.



Time for a coffee and cigarette I think. My brain is starting to fail me

[Morton]

Slow progress is slow, but I want to make sure everything works first time.

Note the 500w spotties in the back seat. Damn those things keep the car toasty warm Got my stereo set up just behind them, too:




Here's what my driveway looks like at night with me working away inside:

[greenfoam]

That was alot of work to gain a heater and lose 5 kilos

[Morton]

Debatable employment of time if I only fixed the heater - but worth all the effort to learn more about exactly how the climate control system works I like knowing how all the little spinny things go around, and where they all go!

[Morton]

lmao, no wonder my car never used to warm up. I just pulled out the old thermostat, It was rated at 74 deg, and had TWO holes drilled through it, not the factory one with a jiggler.

[vn calais manual]

lmao, no wonder my car never used to warm up. I just pulled out the old thermostat, It was rated at 74 deg, and had TWO holes drilled through it, not the factory one with a jiggler.

lmao. nice ,

your insaine lol staying up all night to do that!.