[s-cars] replacing a coil pack BTDTs

[Vincent Frégeac]

This one would be great too:
http://www.centechwire.com/catalog/panels/fb4.shtml
6 fuses, small, cheap, with sealed cover.



Vincent


2007/5/23, Vincent Frégeac <s.sikss at gmail.com>:
>
> Someone like http://www.americanautowire.com will certainly have something
> like an under-the-hood fuse box originally made for another car that could
> be adapted to our coil packs, maybe leaving a few fuses spot empty.
>
> Or the one at the bottom of this page: http://autorewire.com/, 5 fuses,
> aluminium case, designed for bike applications so probably waterproof
> enough
> to be mount beside the POS on the firewall. Worse case, some "glove in a
> tube" on the top face should seal it and be easily removed if you need to
> replace the fuse. Glow-When-Blown fuses would avoid removing the seal just
> to check if a fuse is blown.
>
>
> Vincent.
>
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> [mailto:s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com] De la part de Bill Mahoney
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> Objet: [s-cars] replacing a coil pack BTDTs
>
> Igor effused
> "now is a good time to install 5 inline weather proof fuses into the
> leads of all 5 coil packs. As Stefan and I have found out a shorted to
> the ground coil pack will take out the main 15A fuse to the ECU thus
> rendering the car inoperable."
>
> Igor,
> Having btdt with this, I have had weather proof fuses for some time now
> with
> good success, i.e. no problems.
> That said, the tangle of wires is … well, a tangle of wires and surely not
> up to race car standard.
> Would someone know of perhaps a fuse panel of a nautical variety that
> could
> be mounted and hold 5 or 6 fuses?
> A circuit breaker would even be more elegant, but dunno if this would not
> be
> good performance wise for the coil application.
> Bueller?
> Electric Bill M
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