Bill Eisinger
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Bill,
You and your body man are either very crazy or very brave, possibly both.
I like the look of the Speedhut gauges; they are very "Series Alpine correct."
View attachment 17273 It’s been a while since I updated...my body/paint guy has had to get a couple other projects out the door but he’s back at it slowly but surely.
In the mean time I’ve been figuring out what I need for the engine and have been bugging a lot of folks here on the forum with dumb questions.
Also, continuing to gather parts...I like to look at these...kind of like a jewel box...they are really going to look good in the car!
One thing I would do different - I would leave the clock out of it. It's a PITA to reset the time and it never gets used anyway.
I've considered that...I'm old school and like the look so I'm going to use it but I see your point.
I'd have to think about it a bit but it shouldn't be too hard to add a small lithium ion, etc battery in parallel to keep the clock going and/or figure out a place up under the dash to mount the resetting button so its not such a pain to reset.
I think I recall this discussion from long ago about clock power and a battery cutoff switch. I think someone suggested mounting a small wire with a very small amperage inline fuse in parallel to the cut off switch. This would continue supplying power to radios and clocks with the battery switched off. The small amperage fuse would blow very quickly if a situation drawing more than residual power requirements occurred. I don't recall any real feedback or discussion on the suggestion. I can envision a couple of possible issues but not sure they are major problems. Number one would be operator error and then the resistance in the disconnect causing too much current to try to flow through the bypass when starting.
Anybody have any thoughts or improvements on this possible solution - good or bad?