<VV> Great Corvair Resource

[Anil Mittal]

 Hello everyone. I just wanted to tell you about a new resource I
have been using for my Corvair which I think is great.

 My car is back from the body shop! If you don't remember my father
in-law backed into the front right fender on October of 2004 which
caused a decent amount of damage to the car. Upon removing some trim
from the car to get it repainted I found rust at the lower edge of
the windshield where a previous owner had filled in the drain holes.
With this find and a bit more rust on the dash I decided to have the
whole car stripped and repainted. I had it painted in DuPont
ChromaLusion paint which does a subtle color shift from a dark
metallic red, into gold/orange. I had all of the body work and
painting done at the Corvair Ranch and they did an amazing job. I
highly recommend them to anyone in the area for mechanical or
cosmetic work. 

 I picked up the car about 3 weeks ago and spent the first 1.5 weeks
trying to figure out where to start reassembling and ordering parts.
My first task was to rewire the car with all new harnesses.
Installing new harnesses is pretty easy but as usual I must
complicate things! I am making many electrical modifications to the
car including:

 1) Modern ATO fuse block mounted in trunk
 2) E Spec Headlights with relays
 3) 4 Way flashers
 4) Alarm with remote start
 5) Power Locks
 6) Power Windows
 7) Oil Temp Gauge
 8) Oil Pressure Gauge
 9) Volt meter
 10) CD Changer with XM and iPod interface
 11) Something I am forgetting right now
 12) 0 Gauge feed to trunk from battery


 To all the purists out there, please don't lecture me. I appreciate
your concern but I do this because I can and because I need projects
to keep my mind busy :-)

 Instead of trying to add all this stuff to the Corvair I wanted to
wire it as if it left the factory with all of this stuff. I have
spent almost 2 weeks with all of the stock wiring harnesses laid out
in the basement while grafting all of the new wiring in. I have been
using the CD of color coded wiring diagrams from Ned
(aeroned at aol.com) and I don't think I would be able to even attempt
what I am doing without his hard work. The CD is excellent. It is
laid out in a very organized way, each circuit in each harness is
shown individually in color as well as all the circuits together. I
highly recommend this CD for anyone who wants a better understanding
of your Corvair's electrical system. I found the shop manual to be
useless in comparison. Thanks for letting me share, hope the CD is of
some help to others out there.

Anil