Uprating Manta Lighting by William R
Blankley
more by William Blankley
Opening up the hood
the other day I looked over the wiring. Having been
offered some 130 Watt H1 bulbs it seemed a good idea. The
lamps are still in the wraps. My comment at the time was
on the lines of "and you can call me Doris if that
harness set up will take that pair of death rays".
Why? The headlight switch operates directly for a start;
there is no spare current carrying capacity in the system
at all. Everything in the car has just enough capacity
and no more, plus it is probably a bit brittle with age.
Get out of that
sucker! Easy if you know how, take four headlight relays,
one for each lamp, mount up next to the light units, use
the existing feed to pull the relay in, run some wire as
used for sixty amp alternators to the supply side of the
relays from the battery live via a sixty amp fuse, now
finish the job with a ground return in the same size wire
(color it yellow).
To run this a sixty
amp alternator will be required, that’s why the
bulbs are still in their cartons! Modifications seem to
upset the mechano-ecology.
William
R Blankley
Read more of William
Blankley's Writings?
|
