Cullen,
One on the saoca/cat forum members offers a complete modern multi fuse
harness for tigers and alpines. Do a quick search on the saoca and his
details will come up. Lots of people have used with great success and he's
a sunbeam guy so knows the cars and is willing to help
On 14 Jan 2015 11:29, "Cullen McCann via Tigers" <tigers@autox.team.net>
wrote:
> Thanks Sandy...as always, your a wealth of knowledge. Thank you Tom also
> for
> the source on the wiring. That will help. Yes, Both of you are correct,
> that I
> want more circuit protection than the two fuses that the system is
> designed to
> provide. At a minimum, I will take a stock harness or a replica of an
> original
> harness and add additional fuses. My preference, however, was to have more
> flexibility routing locations, choosing where to route the wiring. This
> would
> require pay cut to fit type approach with some additional length. While I
> do
> have an appreciation for making a period correct presentation, I may
> choose to
> conceal some of my wiring more so than the factory. I will not likely
> drape it
> across the inner fender panels as it was originally. I have had extremely
> good
> results with street rod style aftermarket harnesses. That's why I was
> pushing
> that direction. But, I have a complete and uncut original harness. I am
> certainly interested in using an alternator system versus the generator
> system.
>
> Hard to explain my motivation or inspiration for original components versus
> custom ones, but I suspect and I phrased my original question that it would
> help to understand better. I like original hardware, original gauges and
> interiors , original colors and styling, but will more than likely
> modernize
> my electronics , brakes, and other subtle places to improve
> quality-of-life,
> And in my opinion, reliability. Not trying to start a design debate, this
> is
> just my Comfort zone.
>
> Sandy's approach is the closest so far to what I'm hoping to achieve. More
> specifically, however, I was wondering if anyone had ever adapted a
> completely
> aftermarket style harness to factory electronic components. The wipers,
> gauges, and all the lighting systems etc.
>
> Cullen
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> > On Jan 13, 2015, at 9:10 PM, Sandy Ganz <sganz@pacbell.net> wrote:
> >
> > It would not be a problem, the electrical is pretty similar except for
> the
> Generator. You might keep some of the wiring and just redo sketchy parts. I
> would definitely use a fuse block with more then 2 fuses :). The areas of
> trickiness I'm guessing would be turn signal and Generator, the rest is
> pretty
> simple in looking at the diagrams. That all being said you might be better
> off
> starting with a replica harness and just add a fuse block, I think all the
> individual terminations for things ends up at the 2 fuses and each of those
> wires could be set to their own fuse. I have some melted wires under the
> dash
> that proves a 20 (or 30??) amp fuse will not blow if a small wire gets a
> short!
> >
> > One other issue is if you intend on using all the odd connectors to
> things
> like motors, wipers, etc, if not and you have no issue chopping them and
> using
> safe and modern connectors a new harness is OK, but if you have to start
> splicing bullet connectors everywhere, easier to start with a stock harness
> and fix the fuse box IMO ;)
> >
> > Sandy
> >
> >
> >
> > From: Cullen McCann via Tigers <tigers@autox.team.net>
> > To: "tigers@autox.team.net" <tigers@autox.team.net>
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2015 3:52 PM
> > Subject: [Tigers] Tiger elec components with non-factory wiring?
> >
> > Guys, I am interested in using an aftermarket wiring approach for my Mk1a
> > Tiger, like Painless wiring. I haven't dove into the fundamental design
> > basics of lucas and jaeger electronics..etc, but if reputation was all I
> > had to go from, I am expecting it to be complicated.
> >
> > Can a system with conventional circuit protection, fuses etc like a
> > painless harness be adapted to all the electrical and instrumentation? Is
> > there any support out there for that exercise? I want all the original
> > lenses, bezels, instruments etc but with the technology of aftermarket
> > street rod style wiring.
> >
> > As always, thank you!
> > Cullen
> > Alpine 260
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