Radio upgrade
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V6GTO

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11,579 posts

265 months

Monday 8th November 2004
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Can anyone tell me what is the best route for a wire from the back of the radio to the area behind the seats, and a power supply from the battery to the same area? Cheers, Martin.

m12_nathan

5,138 posts

282 months

Monday 8th November 2004
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Radio to behind seat = transmission tunnel (underfloor off)

V6GTO

Original Poster:

11,579 posts

265 months

Monday 8th November 2004
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Any exacly how many thousand bolts is that?!

DanH

12,287 posts

283 months

Monday 8th November 2004
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Couldn't you just run it under the carpet? The transmission tunnel is not a great environment as its pretty hot.

V6GTO

Original Poster:

11,579 posts

265 months

Monday 8th November 2004
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I tried tugging at the edges of carpets but it all seemed pretty well glued down.
The thing that really p155e5 me off is that I stipulated before the car went into build that I wanted this extra wiring but they just forgot. It's in black and white on the order that was sent to Noble from MV.(Along with the request that the air filters/turbos/wastegates be in the original positions for extra Darth Vader effects, which was forgotten also) Martin.

joust

14,622 posts

282 months

Monday 8th November 2004
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DanH said:

Couldn't you just run it under the carpet? The transmission tunnel is not a great environment as its pretty hot.
Not really, as you have to get it "over" the chassis cross-members which the carpet won't really hide (if you can get it up, it's glued down in mine).

Alternative to running through the centre tunnel (not really a transmission tunnel as there isn't any transmission in it ) is to get some black box section conduit and run that front to back next to the tunnel. I think Danny or someone similar did that to put some sub-woffer in the rear....

Something like
www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=1305&TabID=1&source=15&WorldID=&doy=8m11

J

V6GTO

Original Poster:

11,579 posts

265 months

Monday 8th November 2004
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But where would the trunking run? (sorry if I'm missing something - like a brain!) Martin.

joust

14,622 posts

282 months

Monday 8th November 2004
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Either along the side next to the "storage" cubbies, or just alongside the tunnel in the middle at the bottom....

J

m12_nathan

5,138 posts

282 months

Monday 8th November 2004
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It has transmission cables in it

The factory did it for me for 30 mins labour or something trivial if that helps.

DanH

12,287 posts

283 months

Monday 8th November 2004
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m12_nathan said:
It has transmission cables in it

The factory did it for me for 30 mins labour or something trivial if that helps.


Thought it also had all the water pipes to the front radiator. I was under the impression that the reason my throttle cable was rerouted to the sill was because of the heat in there?