Saturday, December 27, 2014

The bad part of working on a car is there is two of everything. I worked my way down the left side of the car and posted all of that and have been playing with the nose to avoid starting on the right side. I finally got going on that but rather than post a bunch of pictures of a process you have already seen I decided to just stop posting until I had something a little more interesting to post. I estimated I had about 100 or so hours in the left side door and I am about half way through that process on the right side now. (rinse and repeat). Here are a couple of pictures of how that is going. The glass has already been fit up with the regulators. The door latch has already been cut in and the lock and door handle rods have all been modified.




Monday, December 8, 2014

This weekend I decided to work out the wiring to actuate the headlight doors by turning on the headlights. I have tried to draw up a simple diagram to show how I ended up working it out. I hope it can be helpful to someone else who might want to convert to electric door motors.
As you know I was content to use just one motor to operate my doors so I just purchased one rebuilt second generations Pontiac Fiero headlight door motor. Along with that I purchased a control module that only the left half worked so I got it for a good price. I also bought a standard Bosch style 5 pin relay. The diagram below shows how I ended up wiring it. It turns out to be pretty simple as the module is always hot so power is available to the motor in both the up and down modes. I picked up the power to run the relay right off of the headlight wires so that when the lights are off and the relay is in the resting position it makes contact to send power to the close mode. When the lights turn on the relay activates and swaps over to send power to the open mode. The control module senses the increased amperage draw on the motor when it hits a physical stop and cuts power to the motor in both the up and down positions.  Clear as mud?