Ask Bill about carbing a DeLorean and other K-Jet/Carb tangets

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Originally Posted by DCUK Martin

That "annoying grey wire" is your ignition signal, without it, your engine will not work

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Believe me, I know the engine won't work without it. :P It's 'annoying' in the manner of 'I've had problems with the bulkhead connection being flaky', not, 'I wish I could just get rid of that wire.'

There's a decent chance I'm going to run a new wire in its place when I'm doing all this work, one that goes through the bulkhead hole the wire from the distributor goes through and straight to the coil so I don't have to deal with all the crap from the connectors. I think that the cruise control system I'm also putting in needs to tap off that signal line as well, so it'll kill two birds with one wire so to speak.

I don't know where you tapped your choke heater, but removing an ECU could kill it as well. Just run a new wire through that same grommet to the power supply for the CIS ECU (Green). Use a male quick connect and stick it into the harness connector.

Bill Robertson
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Originally Posted by content22207

I don't know where you tapped your choke heater, but removing an ECU could kill it as well. Just run a new wire through that same grommet to the power supply for the CIS ECU (Green). Use a male quick connect and stick it into the harness connector.

Bill Robertson
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My choke heater is tapped off one of the wires from the aux relays, so removing the ECU shouldn't affect it in the least.

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Originally Posted by content22207

The crappy (my opinion) ECU bracket merely has to hold it still, which debatably is within its realm of capability.

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Let's have that debate now shall we? Anyone out there have problems with this collapsing due to not being made of 1/4" thick plate? :smackbum:

BTW you do realise that stainless steel is actually a pretty poor conductor? The best conductor per unit mass is aluminium.

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Originally Posted by DCUK Martin

Let's have that debate now shall we? Anyone out there have problems with this collapsing due to not being made of 1/4" thick plate? :smackbum:

BTW you do realise that stainless steel is actually a pretty poor conductor? The best conductor per unit mass is aluminium.

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Actually, silver is the best conductor of electricity, then copper.

Notice my words "per unit mass"

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Originally Posted by DCUK Martin

Notice my words "per unit mass"

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I was just going to edit my post. You got me.

Well you got me opening my books to check what the resistivity of gold was - you almost got me! :wink:

Is Martin seriously going to argue that my DeLorean is *LESS* well grounded than a stock vehicle?

Every single OEM ground junction has been tied into 4 gauge bus (except the two behind the headlights, which are 8 gauge). The engine is also attached with 4 gauge cable (located at the top of the block, where it is most weather and road grime protected). The bus itself is attached to the battery with its own lug. This is all *ADDED* to the original grounds. My DeLorean is arguably the best grounded DeLorean in the world (which may explain why I never have any of the electrical problems that seem so prevalent in the General forum).

BTW: That bundle of ground wires at the radio bracket is almost exclusively grounds *IN*. There is only *ONE* 16 gauge ground wire out towards the battery. Pretty piss poor design if you ask me (every single device grounded at the radio bracket is dependent upon one single undersized ground wire).

Total cost of my ground bus was less than $50 (closer to $30 IIRC) -- less than a single stainless steel DMC logo doodad. Pretty cheap investment for the return, IMHO.

Apparently Martin's ongoing attacks on my car are not tangential, for moderators are perfectly content to leave them in place.

Bill Robertson
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Let's get back to carbs: the breather cover is also a superior surface for resting a bottle of cold beverage, as seen from the ring stain on this picture, when Dad and I took my (or should I start saying 'our' at this point) dirty car to last week's cars and coffee in VA Beach

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mc_phot...57627135332330