What does this box do ?

[steve-V8s]

What does this box do ? found it tucked under the transmission tunnel. seems to have a battery attached.

[PeteGriff]

steve-V8s said:

What does this box do ? found it tucked under the transmission tunnel. seems to have a battery attached.

I do not recognise it but it could be a 'Tracker' that a previous owner had fitted? Is thee anything in your history file or documentation? Regards, Pete

[dhf]

With pranks that seem to have been carried on at the Factory during the build process, its a miracle no ones found a bundle of Gelly sticks and an alarm clock tucked up behind a panel ! A Tracker box by any chance ?

[steve-V8s]

Ah, yes could be a tracker, would perhaps explain the battery. Looks just a bit amateurish, the battery seems to have been wrapped in insulation tape. It has two wires disappearing into the door lock area, perhaps to pick up a supply and two wires disappearing through a hole roughly above the diff could be the aerial I suppose. No markings or numbers on the box, suppose if it is a tracker it would need to be a bit discrete.
Weighs a ton ( well half a kg) so it is coming out whatever it is.

[RichB]

steve-V8s said:

...it is coming out whatever it is.

Humm... make sure you don't cut the red wire before the blue one.

[virgil]

That's where the M23t alarm box is on mine, which is the volumetric protection bit...I guess an aftermarket version of the same bit?

[steve-V8s]

Alarm sensor is still there so not that. Can't cut the blue wire first because they are all black.

[Bluebottle]

steve-V8s said:

Alarm sensor is still there so not that. Can't cut the blue wire first because they are all black.

Colur blind Bomber...you're screwed lol

Edited by Bluebottle on Wednesday 20th June 17:40

[jesfirth]

i have a simalr box on top of the trasmission tunnel and i have no idea what it does either but on the basis that everything works i have left it well alone (-:

[EGB]

Has it got a live feed? If not, cut it out, perhaps!

[jeboa]

Looks very similar to this:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/MOTOROLA-AUTOMOTIVE-CAR-...

If you disconnect the car battery, then disconnect the units battery (I very much doubt it's holding any charge after all these years anyway) you can cut the wires at different lengths, and insulate each one indvidually. You could trace all the wiring back to source, but that could take you a while!! I would have thought it just has a +ve, GND and (maybe) IGN wire + an antenna cable (coax?) maybe?

[Podie]

steve-V8s said:

What does this box do ? found it tucked under the transmission tunnel. seems to have a battery attached.

It stops it turning into a Chimaera.

[PeteGriff]

Podie said:

It stops it turning into a Chimaera.

Of course it's a anti nano-transmogrifier, Doctor Who will know about this stuff!!!

[virgil]

steve-V8s said:

Alarm sensor is still there so not that. Can't cut the blue wire first because they are all black.

There's a couple of seperate boxes for the alarm...the imobiliser, the alarm and the micorwave part that stops people leaning into an open convertible and nicking stuff.

If all the wires are black, that indicates someone didn't want the wires to be easily identifyable (security wiring as on my alarm) and therefore to me would suggest an alarm type part.. The only sure way is to trace the wires as best as you can and see where they go...

[jeboa]

Hi Virgil, I did post some advice above (and a link for verification). I would be very surprised if it wasn't a tracker, you should be able to remove following the steps I advised.

[Ant.]

It is a Tracker device, found one on my Tamora.

[ben240z]

I think it was an early attempt at directional stabiliy to try to stop the car piroueting on it's self in slow tight corners.
Remove at your peril

[FlipFlopGriff]

jesfirth said:

i have a simalr box on top of the trasmission tunnel and i have no idea what it does either but on the basis that everything works i have left it well alone (-:

Jes,
Probably the sensitivity adjuster for the microwave part of the alarm. I was told to set it so that it goes off about 2 feet above the gearstick. From memory the adjustment is clockwise more sensitive, anticlockwise less sensitve.
FFG

[steve-V8s]

Your theory could indeed be correct Ben it is certainly heavy enough to add some grip purely by being there. I did spin the car several times before removing it however so perhaps it wasn’t working correctly. I guess there must have been a similar device fitted to the Datsun which you also removed.

[MADMAX2]

Podie said:

steve-V8s said:

What does this box do ? found it tucked under the transmission tunnel. seems to have a battery attached.

It stops it turning into a Chimaera.

Nah..... it sends out a signal to the AA, RAC and Green Flag that a Griff Girl has broken down and to send for THE pink recovery truck complete with pink flashing lights and a big butch handlebar moustache spandex wearing ladyboy driver with THAT smile