I decided to send in a request to remove/replace wires in IT cars

[jimbbski]

Chris! Duck! LOL

[Z3_GoCar]

good luck.

[Flyinglizard]

I add wires and cut off ends of the fuel pump circuit, and ignition drive. Anything that makes the car run more often should be legal, IMHO. MM

[RacerBill]

Chris: I appreciate your effort, and agree with your request. I fear, however, that you will probably receive the same answer that I received when I requested that we be allowed to add small plates to allow us to jack our 25+ year old cars safely - 'the rules are adequate as written.'

[tnord]

how does this make the class better if there is already an allowance to remove an old crusty wire (or entire harness) and replace with a new one?

[tom91ita]

Chris,

i am glad you brought up the subject of wiring. i meant to start a thread to ask about what to do with wires that might end up "hot" due to allowed mods.

There is this section in the rules:

Gauges and instruments may be added, replaced, or removed.

as well as this part:

f. Carpets, center consoles, floor mats, headliners, sun roof liner and frame, dome lights, grab handles, and their insulating, attaching or operating mechanisms may be removed.

so i can remove the dome light but not the wires to it. or i can remove a gauge but not the wires to it.

i removed the dome light and crap when i removed my sunroof mechanism, etc. i coiled up the wires leading to the dome light and zipped it to the roll cage. but typically the dome light does not have its own fuse and so when the door opens, the lead to the light is "hot."

so some wires are "hot" because of allowable mods and i taped it off. i would much rather pull the wires back to the source.

sorry to bend the thread but i think there is more to the issue of removing wires than the engine harness.

tom

[StephenB]

"Operating mechanism"

In reality the wire is one of the mechanisms that make it work. No?

Stephen

[GTIspirit]

Chris,

i am glad you brought up the subject of wiring. i meant to start a thread to ask about what to do with wires that might end up "hot" due to allowed mods.

so i can remove the dome light but not the wires to it. or i can remove a gauge but not the wires to it.

i removed the dome light and crap when i removed my sunroof mechanism, etc. i coiled up the wires leading to the dome light and zipped it to the roll cage. but typically the dome light does not have its own fuse and so when the door opens, the lead to the light is "hot."

so some wires are "hot" because of allowable mods and i taped it off. i would much rather pull the wires back to the source.

I wondered the same thing myself since I've got a hot dome light wire going to the windshield header. Maybe I should pull it back through it's routing and coil it up at the source. But at some point someone needs to take a look at the rules and clean up the ridiculous ones like this.

And I thought jacking plates were not illegal?