Basic Street Rod Wiring Schematic

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Basic street rod wiring schematic. Hot rod wiring diagram please note. If used for 6 volt make all the wires heavier by 2 gauges. Wiring up your hotrod or race car shouldn t be a scary task. Read about wiring basics learn how to properly wire your street rod with all the tools equipment and everything else you need to know to wire your hot rod yourself street rodder magazine.

Al reviews some wiring tips like selecting the proper gauge wire and how to wire a single pole single throw electrical relay. Wiring always frustrated me even the simplest layout can be confusing. Over the years i have collected a lot of how to books and the wiring reference i always seem to go to is a thin little 66 page orange book called how to wire your street rod from start to finish. For example 14 gauge wire will become 12 gauge 10 gauge will be 8 gauge etc.

The easiest one i ve found to be useful is in mike bishop s book how to build a traditional ford hot rod page 121 the diagram included everything i needed when i built my first roadster with exception of an ammeter amp meter. I m pretty sure my copy came from speedway and was around 5.