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Originally Posted by ALF
Hi Dan
MANY THANKS for this great list.
On my 289 (with cut back doors) I’ve a street version dash and SW instruments. Based on this I’ll investigate for the Ford/Autolite related parts and not focus on the Lucas items. (on the items which got changed after CSX2201)
Could you tell me if only the FIA cars had the wiring harness on the interior passing below the door or was this on all race cars?
As I will not reinstall the carpet on my car I’m still looking around to find the best matching setup/ installation.
Alf
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CSX2201 and later street cars: The wiring for the rear of the chassis exits the fire wall, runs down the driver’s side foot box at an angle adjacent to the transmission and the back along the main frame rail.
All race cars; that is a big broad subject. When CSX2002 was first raced by SAI is was very nearly a stock Cobra except for the roll bar, lack of mufflers, ignition system, and spark plugs. Every SAI race and racer from them on morphed to a more purpose built racer than sports car going racing on the weekend. Early team cars looks like they have stock electrical systems with subsystems added like electric fuel pumps or night driving lights for example. By early 1964 when the cut back door racers were being finished racers had few pure street ancillary features anymore. The cut back door race cars got custom wiring, i.e. each car was individually wired depending on the variables at the time and the wishes of the people completing them. The custom wiring in these race cars did not always follow the same paths as street cars. I don’t know of any one car pictured anywhere from all angles at any time. Race car wise wiring changed as the cars changed race to race and in some cases season to season. Example: Cars raced in night time events would gain marker lights and in later pictures the lights would be removed. No race car exists now as it did day one so looking today won’t tell you what it was like new in 1964. Dave Friedman’s (spelling?) images in various period magazines, books, and the various websites now hosting collections are the best sources for 1964 time frame images. Even with all these resources today one would just have to put some wiring wherever they wanted that seemed logical as in: race car, 1964, where should I run the wiring to keep it as safe as possible from all the bad things that happen while racing and or make it easy to repair if something does happen.