 Fog light flash for 914/6? |
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| smontanaro |
 Aug 23 2008, 06:23 PM
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Senior Member  Group: Members Posts: 1,190 Joined: 3-June 05 From: Evanston, IL Member No.: 4,197 Region Association: Upper MidWest  |
JWest Engineering sells a little fog light flash harness. This is apparently for 4-cylinder cars only. Can something like this be done for sixes?
Thx, Skip |
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| seanery |
Aug 23 2008, 07:07 PM
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waiting to rebuild whitey! Group: Retired Admin Posts: 15,854 Joined: 7-January 03 From: Indy Member No.: 100 Region Association: None |
skip, have you talked to James to see if there is a way to make it work in a -6?
Do you know what's different and why it won't work? |
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| smontanaro |
Aug 23 2008, 07:19 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1,190 Joined: 3-June 05 From: Evanston, IL Member No.: 4,197 Region Association: Upper MidWest |
Nope, I just trusted what it said: "This item works with all years of 914/4 (does not work with original 914/6)."
Skip |
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| seanery |
Aug 23 2008, 07:55 PM
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waiting to rebuild whitey! Group: Retired Admin Posts: 15,854 Joined: 7-January 03 From: Indy Member No.: 100 Region Association: None |
I would contact him directly.
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| ArtechnikA |
Aug 24 2008, 07:18 AM
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rich herzog Group: Members Posts: 7,390 Joined: 4-April 03 From: Salted Roads, PA Member No.: 513 Region Association: None |
/6's are wired to flash driving lights with the high beams but AFAIK only Euro cars got driving lights. So there's a couple of options.
Probably the easiest would be to move the 'flash' lead from the lever off the 'high beam' input to the stock relay and move it to the 'low beam' input. That'd flash the low beams (and therefore the fogs if they're switched on) but since they're retracted anyway - no matter... In fact, what I recall is that that's the way US cars worked -anyway- out of the box. You do have to have the fog light switch pulled out to enable them, tho. So try that first - it may already work the way you want - which is why there's isn't a separate relay for the /6 - the factory already put it there... |
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| Jasfsmith |
Aug 25 2008, 08:25 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 556 Joined: 4-October 04 From: Bangor, ME Member No.: 2,882 Region Association: North East States  |
QUOTE(ArtechnikA @ Aug 24 2008, 09:18 AM)  /6's are wired to flash driving lights with the high beams but AFAIK only Euro cars got driving lights. My Euro 6 have driving lights that only come on with the high beams, however do flash without either the high or low beams on. |
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| ArtechnikA |
Aug 25 2008, 09:16 AM
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rich herzog Group: Members Posts: 7,390 Joined: 4-April 03 From: Salted Roads, PA Member No.: 513 Region Association: None |
QUOTE(Jasfsmith @ Aug 25 2008, 10:25 AM) QUOTE(ArtechnikA @ Aug 24 2008, 09:18 AM) /6's are wired to flash driving lights with the high beams but AFAIK only Euro cars got driving lights. My Euro 6 have driving lights that only come on with the high beams, however do flash without either the high or low beams on. I think if you look into the headlight buckets some dark night, you'll find the high beams light up with the stalk held back, whether they're up on not... (IOW - the 'flash' lights 'em all up and doesn't know if they're retracted or not. This is straight out of the 911...) |
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| smontanaro |
Sep 25 2008, 08:41 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1,190 Joined: 3-June 05 From: Evanston, IL Member No.: 4,197 Region Association: Upper MidWest |
Sorry I forgot about this topic for a few weeks. I finally remembered to try it out the other day. With the lights off I turned on the fog lights. Nothing happened (as expected). Then I blipped the high beam switch. Presto! The fog lights flashed!
So I guess the moral of the story is I should leave my fog lights on all the time, then I can flash the MG-TDs and early 911s I see from time-to-time. (Don't see many 914s around Chicago at all...) Skip |
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