My 72 Europa SS

[Sandyman]

Any luck ducting the rad?

[Sofa King]

I have put som insulation on the front bulkhead, and it did improve the heat entering the cabin. I need to insulate some additional areas, but I think I’m on the right track. (Fall weather doesn’t hurt either!)

[Sofa King]

BDA: it was a younger crowd than most shows in the area, so I think it helped it’s popularity. I also had a great conversation with one of the engineers from Corsa who was a huge (and knowledgeable) Europa fan. I think that he will be a big help on several things I plan to try with my exhaust.

[Certified Lotus]

Gotta love all the attention. Congratulations!

[Sofa King]

It’s been a while since I have worked on the car, but made some progress today. I need to wire relays into the power window circuits, but, thinking about how to do that cleanly, pointed out how unorganized the wiring under the bonnet was becoming. So I picked up a 10 circuit fuse block to clean It up. Figured out how to mount it and made the bracket today.

[Sofa King]

I mentioned, quite a while ago, that it is throttle by wire. I didn’t want to rely on a cable run out the front, through the tunnel, and over the engine. So I used the drive by wire system from a Chevy truck. The truck gas pedal is mounted upside down in front of the front bulkhead. It is connected to a Miata gas pedal, so that when you push the Miata pedal, it pulls the Chevy pedal arm. Then the Chevy pedal and most of the  arm were removed. Here is a photo of the remaining controller.

[BDA]

Pretty clever, Sofa! The big fuse block is a good idea. The standard wiring could have used more fuses and I expect you have added a bunch more. I considered a big fuse block for my cay but in the end only added two five-fuse blocks. I wish I had taken the time to "deconstruct" the original circuits around the original fuses to separate them into more fused circuits.

[Sofa King]

Thanks! The wiring harness that I used has a pretty complete fuse box, that I mounted inside and it fuses most of my circuits. I’m using the one that I showed in the front to fuse the higher amp items like the fans, waterpump, heater, door poppers and windows. These are running off of relays that I have added and we’re running inline fuses. It was getting to be a rats nest, and would have been difficult to follow if any of those circuits blew a fuse. Hopefully this block will work and look better!

[Sofa King]

Finally got around to running the power windows through relays. I finally have working windows!! Well... almost. Passenger side works great, but drivers goes up but not down. I’m sure it’s just a bad connection from the switch. I just didn’t feel like crawling back under the dash today!😀

[BDA]

Well, you're almost there! That's a good mod to save your window switches.

[Sofa King]

Windows are working great now! One of the new relays was bad!

[Certified Lotus]

Getting ready for the spring/summer driving season!

[Sofa King]

I live in Cleveland, Ohio... Spring / Summer is my favorite week of the year!!!

[Sofa King]

I just noticed that I am getting some chipping on the front edge of my doors from them opening too far. I didn’t notice anything in the jamb area that would limit their movement. Should there be something in there to act as a stop?

[BDA]

There is a stop of sorts - there is an aluminum tube that carries the wires from the window motor to the inside of the car. IIRC, that tube is mounted on the car and I think it runs in a slot in the door but maybe it's just a big hole. Anyway, that tube acts as a stop.