VIN 12306 'Auryn' : RHD rebuild

[Stuart Rees]

Ah, from the Neverending Story....

[Guinney1971]

the what.....

at least I know what Auryn means too, I had been wondering

[Starglider]

Bought a new vehicle. Only 60k on the clock but looks a little distressed, also pickup may be trick as the car is in Iowa...

[Guinney1971]

I think I've taxed worse......

[Chris P]

Somebody seems to have left a tea shirt wrapped around the steering wheel !

[Starglider]

Chris P Wrote:Somebody seems to have left a tea shirt wrapped around the steering wheel !

I'm pretty sure that's the airbag, looks like both triggered from the front impact.

Gearbox fault turned out to be the shifter cable spot-welding together due to bad earthing (took the starter current). Apparently this is fairly common for the DMC-12, lack of metal chasis means random metal parts can end up taking a lot of current if earthing is lacking. Can't blame Ed for missing this as he was only supposed to be dropping in the engine, Chris N is replacing & adding more earths and will replace the shifter cable. Still, glad the problem wasn't the gearbox itself.

Most of the electrics are working correctly now but work continues.

[Guinney1971]

glad it wasnt something more serious then !!

[Starglider]

UK spec rear foglight construction in progress :



There will be one on each side. The lenses are from a damaged tail light assembly, so they are a size match and the right one even has a 'DMC' logo on it.

[Guinney1971]

like the turbo embossed in rear fascia, nice touch

[MikeWard]

Why not mod the original cluster to have the fogs rather than cutting into the fascia?

There is a tutorial on this very site on how to wire up the fog's in such a way that it retains the 4 brake lights: http://deloreans.co.uk/downloads/techni ... ybrake.zip

[Starglider]

MikeWard Wrote: Why not mod the original cluster to have the fogs rather than cutting into the fascia?

Because I think this will give more of a 'factory UK model' look.

[MikeWard]

oh

[stunned_monkey]

Usually the only cars with independent factory-fitted foglights are Japanese.

[Chris P]

This was the only UK Factory look. Not to everyones taste perhaps. Just writing it up as a matter of fact.

[stunned_monkey]

i thought that wasn't a factory change, but a 3rd party adaption to allow the cars to be UK registered in the early 80s? Dusty being an example of a factory RHD which had never been registered and still had the standard rear lights.