{"id":177,"date":"2006-03-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-04T16:09:18","modified_gmt":"2011-05-04T16:09:18","slug":"bel-air\/alarm-and-more-dynamat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/?p=177","title":{"rendered":"Alarm and More Dynamat"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was a nice dry day on Saturday, so I got the car out and turned it round to work on the other side. I had a quick sweep up and then started on the door looms. The drivers front went in much easier than the passenger side, so I was just about to do the rear door when I realised I’d forgotten the speaker wires. Oops. I took it all back out again and re-did it, practice makes perfect eh?. I did the rear one as well and then soldered in some extension wires so that I could connect up the motors. A quick test and it all worked so it was on to fitting the alarm. It came with loads of extra input and output wires so the first thing I did was sort the wires and cap off the ones I didn’t need. \"Door-Matted.jpg\" It needed to tie into a lot of the existing wiring, so it was a pain to cut into it and keep the wiring neat. With it all done, I powered it all up. No flash from the indicators and no LED or siren but the central locking worked from the remote.. After 20 minutes or so of double checking, I realised I had crossed over the battery and ignition live wires. With it swapped over the siren chirped and the led showed status. I unlocked it again and started to tidy up the wiring a bit. The alarm is smart enough to re-lock and re-arm if you haven’t opened one of the doors. Well, it re-armed and while I was thinking about what it might have been I set off the motion detector and the siren which I was right next to went off and scared the living daylights out of me. With that all done, I cleaned up the drivers door inner and vacced it out ready to fit the Dynamat. It makes an audible difference to the doors, they make a nice thud when you shut them instead of sounding hollow and rattly. Just one more door left to do and it’s on to the boot. The engine went out for machining and balancing this week, so I should get that back in a few weeks ready to go straight in. Getting closer all the time. \"Piston.jpg\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was a nice dry day on Saturday, so I got the car out and turned it round to work on the other side. I had a quick sweep up and then started on the door looms. The drivers front went in much easier than the passenger side, so I was just about to do the rear door when I realised I’d forgotten the speaker wires. Oops. I took it all back out again and re-did it, practice makes perfect eh?. I did the rear one as well and then soldered in some extension wires so that I could connect up the motors. A quick test and it all worked so it was on to fitting the alarm. It came with loads of extra input and output wires so the first thing I did was sort the wires and cap off the ones I didn’t need. \"Door-Matted.jpg\" It needed to tie into a lot of the existing wiring, so it was a pain to cut into it and keep the wiring neat. With it all done, I powered it all up. No flash from the indicators and no LED or siren but the central locking worked from the remote.. After 20 minutes or so of double checking, I realised I had crossed over the battery and ignition live wires. With it swapped over the siren chirped and the led showed status. I unlocked it again and started to tidy up the wiring a bit. The alarm is smart enough to re-lock and re-arm if you haven’t opened one of the doors. Well, it re-armed and while I was thinking about what it might have been I set off the motion detector and the siren which I was right next to went off and scared the living daylights out of me. With that all done, I cleaned up the drivers door inner and vacced it out ready to fit the Dynamat. It makes an audible difference to the doors, they make a nice thud when you shut them instead of sounding hollow and rattly. Just one more door left to do and it’s on to the boot. The engine went out for machining and balancing this week, so I should get that back in a few weeks ready to go straight in. Getting closer all the time. \"Piston.jpg\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}