Wiring update

Just a quick update on the wiring spiders web, I got most of the ION wiring harness cleaned up and traced back to the fuse panel or computer, I was trying to get every sensor, connector or wire coiled up all the way to the fuse panel or computer but unfortunately there is many connections that have wires that go to both components, so there is no way to coil it past a certain point. This is going to make the wiring a little more confusing during the next stage, but as long as I do it wire by wire I should be fine. I did end up stripping out all the factory stereo wiring, plus I've found a couple wires that weren't used or I don't need in the Fiero that I might be able to re-purpose into wires for aftermarket gauges. The fun part is going to be when I finish with the factory wire and I need to run the main power wire, aftermarket stereo wiring and all the new wires for the aftermarket gauges, mostly because I want it all to look factory so I am going to need to get some or re-use some GM watertight connectors for all the extra wiring.

Rebuilding the wiring harness

It's been a while since I could work on the project car, started with the car that takes me to work everyday requiring a new engine plus some other upgrade parts that I wanted to do. Then I broke my leg which has been a 9 week ordeal..........but I'm back at it, I can't really do to much just now on the frame since I still have limited mobility, so I started working on the wiring harness.

First I started off by cleaning the basement a bit, since I need all the floor space to lay out the factory Fiero harness, one thing that I found is that the Fiero harness has a lot of lines that cross over each other in the dash area, for example the power window buttons run on a separate line from the main line that runs from the fusebox to the engine bay, I hope to clean that up a bit when I modify the ION harness.

After laying out the Fiero harness I started working on the ION harness, I thought about just laying the ION harness on top of the Fiero one, then cutting and hacking to the different lengths, but I realized that won't work too well with all the wire protection tape/loom in the way, so I started off by hanging the ION harness from the ceiling and removing all the wire protection off the harness. In this way I can start off the modification by locating the main interior fuse panel in the desired location on the Fiero harness, then connector by connector and wire by wire tracing the exact route that the harness is going to follow ending up at the proper location in the Fiero harness where I can trim or lengthen the wires to suit and use either the Fiero or ION factory connector to the desired part.

This process is probably going to take a few weeks in the evenings/weekend, but it should end up with a nice clean harness that "should" line up nicely in the new car.

There are a few delay's

Well it isn't that I haven't wanted to work on the project car, but the car that gets me to and from work everyday needed a slight overhaul, so I've spent 3 months rebuilding the entire car and was just about complete when I had some suspension issues of my own that required having some titanium components installed in my right leg. Looks like its going to be another month or so before I'm going to be able enough to get on the project again.

Front suspension rebuild part 5

Things and updates have been going kinda slow lately, here's a quick and dirty update....I've got the car back on four tires, almost everything looks like it is working correctly on the front suspension. There is a small problem with the mounting location of the sway bar and couldn't see the problem till everything was back on the car. I am going to be changing the mounting location and the swaybar arm so that it has proper clearances. 

Here's a couple update pics, I did adjust majority of the camber out and set the coilovers higher than what you see in the pictures.

Front suspension rebuild part 4

Small update, got majority of the front suspension mocked up, just need to bolt it to the car and check out a few things, might need some "fine tuning" when I get it back on the car. I know that I will have to remake the brackets for the swaybar, they are too close to the knuckle and in suspension extension there is a chance of binding on the knuckle, but since the bolt on to the ball joint it won't be hard to change out when it's on the car. Also I need to get the proper links rather than the heim joints, I have another project that I need to get some links for, so they'll come soon enough.

Front suspension rebuild part 3

Quick update today, sorry it has been so long since the last update, I've been busy the last few weeks between work, life and the daily driver rebuild.

This past weekend I got the 85 chassis trimmed and added the rear mounting location for the 88 front subframe, also started putting all the other components on the front subframe. Today I welded filler pieces on the upper control arm mounting location, also mocked up a couple places to mount the swaybar, not sure but I might mount the swaybar on the bottom of the subframe instead in the stock location......only reason why is I think I can get a longer arm and possibly have more clearance for other components in the front suspension. I will try mocking it up a bit more before I make it a permanent decision.

Now for some pics

Apa itu TSER dan mengapa memegang peranan penting dalam Spesifikasi Kaca Film

Melanjutkan pembahasan tentang Spesifikasi Penting pada Kaca Film, kali ini akan dibahas lebih detail tentang Spesifikasi TSER pada kaca film.

Seperti yang sudah dibahas pada artikel sebelumnya bahwa TSER (Total Solar Energy Rejected)
adalah persentase total solar energy (heat/panas) yg di tolak oleh kaca film. Semakin besar persentase TSER semakin baik, krn menandakan kemampuan kaca film u/ menolak panas yg masuk melalui kaca film secara total. 

TSER adalah akumulasi % dari berbagai variable penyumbang panas yg masuk melalui kaca, termasuk Infra-Red (IR) yg merupakan salah satu variable terbesar didalam TSER.TSER tidak dapat mudah di ukur, harus melaui test lab untuk spec TSER yg valid, acuan pengukuran TSER terdiri dari beberapa variable yang secara logic dapat di telaah apakah spec yg dipaparkan logic atau tidak.
TSER secara umum adalah akumulasi bbrp variabel terdiri dari:
IRR = 50%
VLT = 40% 
UVR = 3%
Variabel lain = 7% (spt: bahan dasar, teknologi, proses pembuatan, etc)

%TSER dari Variabel VLT sebesar 40% adalah tetap sesuai dengan kegelapan Kaca Film, bila %VLT sama maka dapat diasumsikan sumbangan terhadap %TSER adalah sama. (note: semakin besar %VLT maka sumbangan terhadap %TSER semakin kecil)
Sedangkan %TSER dari UVR sebesar 3% sudah umum krn semua Kaca Film Branded umumnya memiliki spec UVR 98-99.9%.

Dengan demikian yang memegang peranan besar dalam TSER adalah spec IRR dan Other Var, IRR dapat dengan mudah diukur dengan alat digital transmittion meter, semakin besar %IRR maka sumbangan terhadap %TSER semakin besar, maka dengan demikian dapat dg mudah melihat apakah spesifikasi TSER yg diclaim/dipaparkan masuk akal atau tidak.

Jadi agar anda tidak di kelabui oleh spesifikasi yang diclaim oleh sebuah merk kaca film, maka bijaklah dalam menerima informasi spesifikasi kaca film.

Bagi yang membutuhkan konsultasi lebih lanjut u/ memilih kaca film, jangan sungkan menghubungi Monza Autosport di (+62-21) 688 36 360 / 9999 5600

[Chris ~ Monza Autosport]