All the lights are now working! Blew the 7.5amp fuses though. The current on the high beams + spots peaks at 11amps (possible spikes higher) so 15amp fuses are going in for those. We’ll see how it behaves with those.
A smallish job we’ve been putting off for a long time. The 6 branch manifold gets quite close to the brake master cylinder and pipes so we’ve put in a shield to try and reduce the amount of heat around it. Keep brake fluid cooler can only be a good thing!
Big thanks to Mike at Car Audio Direct.com for sending this pack of Damplifer out so quickly so we could do this over the weekend! Sound deadening such as Damplifier or Dynamat is used in the car audio industry to reduce rattly panels. On the plus side this stuff will dampen vibrations through the floor as well as heat shield it.
3 sheets plus half a sheet of Dynamat we had left over from a bulk pack covers both floors, the lower half of the firewall and part of the side of the transmission tunnel. Which should be enough to protect our feet from heat.
Also added extra bolts to the seat runner brackets that go through the brackets, floor and chassis.
More dashboard work – installed the switches around the steering wheel – yes those holes on the right are in the wrong place! – oops 🙂 Luckily the whole dash will be covered so its not and issue.
Bottom to top: Main light switch (from the E30), fog light, interior light, speedo LCD switch button.
The main light switch is the one from the donor E30. You can spin the button to change the brightness of the dash lighting.
Installation is made easy by using part of the E30 dashboard screwed to the back of the Sportster dash.
Glove box attached to the dash, had to chop a load off the scuttle so it would fit in nicely.
Finally the beginning of an initial template for the boot floor.
