Greg in PA build

[greg]

Score! Found a post on a Harley forum where a guy bought these and explained how to hook them up.

I was correct in my guess about the colors of the low and high beam but it turns out, this unit with two bulbs is actually a day time running light with a separate headlight. The actual headlight bulb is a two filament bulb with a high and low beam.

One set of the green and brown wires goes directly to the day time bulb (which I'm thinking I could use as a fog light going to its own separate switch). The other two join up and go into the head light bulb. The extra wiring will make it easy to join two units together.

[JIDiesel]

Dec 9, 2014 15:37:12 GMT greg said:

Headlights came today. They are bigger than I thought. Not sure if I like that.




They look nice other wise. The only issue is I can't find a wiring diagram for them anywhere. The model number is TL007-BS.

If they follow the rules of some other generic headlight setup that bikes have, my best guess is:

Brown is battery
Green is ground (earth)
White is high beam
Blue is low beam

There are 3x 2 pin connectors with green and brown wires coming in/out so my guess is that's power and ground. There's another 2 pin connector with a blue and white so that's probably high/low beam but then there is an individual blue wire too so I'm a bit baffled....

That light is for a BMW motorcycle. should have a B-35 dual filament and a BA-20 daytime running light in it. High/ low and DRL shared ground wires.

[JIDiesel]

note to self, read to the bottom of forum before posting, lol

[greg]

Haha! Thank you for backing up my findings.

Just noticed something else that bothers me a bit. There's no grommet for the wiring to shield the housing from letting water get in. Not that this thing will see rain. Just concerned about leaving it parked outside on a humid sunset then condensation coating everything.

[JIDiesel]

Dec 9, 2014 21:21:46 GMT greg said:

Haha! Thank you for backing up my findings.

Just noticed something else that bothers me a bit. There's no grommet for the wiring to shield the housing from letting water get in. Not that this thing will see rain. Just concerned about leaving it parked outside on a humid sunset then condensation coating everything.

Most of the motorcycle headlights are sealed at the bulb to the mirror glass, not at the back of the housing. Same thing goes for the Dominator lights sold by Exomotive. You should be fine on the condensation issue.

[greg]

FM little big brake kit and V-Maxx suspension came earlier this week. I was in the process of taking pics when my cell randomly died... These are all I got.







Got the rear brake lines routed too but no pics. Will get some tomorrow.

These are the FM sways. The front one won't be installed till I get the Exocet chassis.




I have to get adjustable sway bar end links. These won't be installed till I can get the car assembled and on the ground to set ride height. Ideally, you don't want the end links to hold any weight of the arms.

This is the only picture I got of the coil over... Really wanted to do an in depth write up about how to assemble and "tune" these but alas, faulty cell battery. They reuse the stock miata strut caps and interestingly I found out the front are identical to the rears.



More to come on this later.

The other thing I started was powder coating the pedal assemblies.



Back at it tomorrow.

[greg]

Got the pedal assemblies powder coated this weekend. These are used MazdaSpeed Miata pedals. I took a lot of pics so I could remember how they went back together. Maybe all these pics will help someone in another build.












The metal in these is quite thin and flimsy compared to Mitsubishis. Whatever they could do to save weight I guess.

Anyway, here they are coated and reassembled.









If anyone wants me to do a set like this for you, shoot me a PM. I have an extra set.

Rear brake lines run.




Front lines and coil overs. These will go to a custom hard line which will be made after I get the chassis.



Next project I started was the steering shaft. Since I'm doing a push button setup, I was considering just cutting everything off the shaft and leaving it bare with a custom turn signal stalk.

Now I'm having a different idea which will involve keeping the stock turn signal stalk (which also has the head light, parking light and high beam stalk as well as being self canceling)




Eliminating the wiper switch, control board and wiring. Just popped the pins out using a simple bobby pin.




This black connector has so many open pins, I'm thinking I can wire in the fog lights thru this connector. BTW does any one know if this yellow connector is for the horn or the SRS air bag?

I'm also having difficulty figuring out how to get the key cylinder out of the socket. I will mount the push button start in here once I get that cylinder out.



The whole assembly will get powder coated later. That's it for today.

[jwagner]

That brake block tee on the rear subframe looks like the same Goodridge part I tried to use (NA subframe though). Once you drop the frame on, the rear bulkhead is really close to the forward facing connection so you're either going to have make a really tight 90 degree, move it back, or figure something else out.

[JIDiesel]

Your pedals look like mine. Here they are installed.

[ImprobableConstruct]

Pretty sure the yellow connector is the airbag.

[greg]

Dec 14, 2014 19:09:18 GMT jwagner said:

That brake block tee on the rear subframe looks like the same Goodridge part I tried to use (NA subframe though). Once you drop the frame on, the rear bulkhead is really close to the forward facing connection so you're either going to have make a really tight 90 degree, move it back, or figure something else out.

Came with the Flyin Miata brake kit. Thanks for the heads up!

[greg]

Dec 14, 2014 19:33:21 GMT ImprobableConstruct said:

Pretty sure the yellow connector is the airbag.

That's what I thought. Was confused why there'd be only 2 pins for the air bag, but 4 pins for the horn.

[JIDiesel]

Dec 14, 2014 19:42:27 GMT greg said:

Dec 14, 2014 19:33:21 GMT ImprobableConstruct said:

Pretty sure the yellow connector is the airbag.

That's what I thought. Was confused why there'd be only 2 pins for the air bag, but 4 pins for the horn.

The yellow is the air bag, the horn in the factory wheel has two contact points, one left and one right, the wires are series/ parallel in the steering wheel its self. 

hope that helps. I think I still have the diagram if you need it. Or look at page 19 in the pdf link.


guides.exomotive.com/hc/en-us/article_attachments/200034178/2000_System_Wiring_Diagrams.pdf

[greg]

Got it. All the horn button does is ground the relay. Should be easy to setup with the NRG wheel adaptor.

Thank you!

Now to figure out how to get the key lock cylinder out of the socket.

[JIDiesel]

Dec 14, 2014 21:31:41 GMT greg said:

Got it. All the horn button does is ground the relay. Should be easy to setup with the NRG wheel adaptor.

Thank you!

Now to figure out how to get the key lock cylinder out of the socket.

I used the NRG hub adapter also. I just did away with the guts of the clock spring just using the lower housing and installing a contact spring.
Trimmed the cover with a dremel tool and the spring wire is inserted into the contact. the horn grounds against the steering column. 
hope this helps.
John