ElectronicsNeed help wiring something up? Thinking of adding an electrical component to your car? Need help troubleshooting that wiring glitch?
Welcome to ThirdGen.org!
Welcome to ThirdGen.org.
You are currently viewing our forum as a guest, which gives you limited access to view most discussions and access our other features. By joining our community, at no cost, you will have access to post topics, communicate privately with other members (PM), respond to polls, upload content and access many other special features. Registration is free, fast and simple, join the ThirdGen.org community today!
I'm not going to be installing my Mega Shifter any time soon at all...but I would like to get an idea with what I'm going to be up against. I went and bought the relay needed from Radio Shack today. I looked at the instructions...and wiring up the relay...and looking at the picture really isn't making much sense. I haven't and won't be starting this untill like May or June. Can anyone give me SIMPLE instructions that I can understand? The other switches that came with the shifter look like they will be pretty easy to install....and are explained pretty well in the B&M instructions...but the relay is thowing me off. Here is a picture of the relay....and I can get plenty more pictures of anything....just as long as someone can make me understand this better. Is there only 2 wires that go to this relay...cause that's what I got out of it when I read it. From the diagram on the back...it looks like 4 wires go to it.........Thanks alot guys
Shawn-
__________________ 1991 Z28 Camaro Air Ride/INTRO Wheels 1999 30th Anniversary WS6 Trans Am #357 of 1600 Produced 2008 HHR SS 318 H.P. LNF 2.0 Turbocharged
i thought it was easy to read.. the box with A-F is showing the stock wiring harness. u need to extend thoes wires by about 6in. as an example the "BLK/WHT wire will go to the #5 pin on the relay... and the #9 pin will go to the orange and black pin.
so...are there only 2 wires that go to the relay....or is there 4?
__________________ 1991 Z28 Camaro Air Ride/INTRO Wheels 1999 30th Anniversary WS6 Trans Am #357 of 1600 Produced 2008 HHR SS 318 H.P. LNF 2.0 Turbocharged
You need 4.......basically a relay is something that uses lower current to control a larger current. A small current goes throught one side which contains a coil, which induces magnetism which pulls a switch closed or opens a switch (depends on whether its a normally closed or normally open relay). So it needs 4 wires. 2 to complete the circuit that powers the coil side(lower current side), and then 2 on the switch side to complete the circuit(this side of the circuit is the higher current side). Hope this helps!
look at the diagram... you see the little box thing twards the right with the zig zag mark in it, that is the relay.
ill tell you where everything goes....
wire A (BLK WHT) goes to pin #5
Wire B (ORNG BLK) goes to Pin #9
Wire C ( DRK BLU) goes to both micro switches. then from the 2nd prong on the lower, that goes to Pin #13
Wire D (LT GRN) goes to upper switch
Wire E (PURPLE) Goes to pin #12
Wire F ( Yellow) goes to pin #8
Then Pin #14 goes to a ground, like a screw or something.
so you have a total of 6 wires.
hope that helps a little bit
Last edited by IEatRice4dinner; 02-04-2004 at 09:09 PM.
Originally posted by IEatRice4dinner look at the diagram... you see the little box thing twards the right with the zig zag mark in it, that is the relay.
ill tell you where everything goes....
wire A (BLK WHT) goes to pin #5
Wire B (ORNG BLK) goes to Pin #9
Wire C ( DRK BLU) goes to both micro switches. then from the 2nd prong on the lower, that goes to Pin #13
Wire D (LT GRN) goes to upper switch
Wire E (PURPLE) Goes to pin #12
Wire F ( Yellow) goes to pin #8
Then Pin #14 goes to a ground, like a screw or something.
so you have a total of 6 wires.
hope that helps a little bit
that helps a TON man, thanks alot! I haven't and can't even take the top of my shifter plate off to even look at the wires. So....when you say a wire like (BLK WHT) is there only one wire with that color combo? or is there actually 2 wires, one black, one white? And the "micro switch" your referring to, is that the switches that came with the B&M?
__________________ 1991 Z28 Camaro Air Ride/INTRO Wheels 1999 30th Anniversary WS6 Trans Am #357 of 1600 Produced 2008 HHR SS 318 H.P. LNF 2.0 Turbocharged
the (BLK WHT) is a bombo it's a black wire with a white line on it... the switches are the ones that need to be bolted to the side of the shifter. the backup light and such.
I will have a tech artical up at http://www.iroczone.com soon and mabey http://www.domesticspeed.com
alright man....so far, you've been a good help, I appreciate it
__________________ 1991 Z28 Camaro Air Ride/INTRO Wheels 1999 30th Anniversary WS6 Trans Am #357 of 1600 Produced 2008 HHR SS 318 H.P. LNF 2.0 Turbocharged
well, I went to the junkyard today, and cut out the whole harness just to see what I'll be messing around with. It really dosen't look all that bad....only one thing....In the instructions, it mentions a yellow and purple wire....it has the purple wire....but there is not a yellow wire....there is a green wire (purple and green wires are really thick) does that make sense?
__________________ 1991 Z28 Camaro Air Ride/INTRO Wheels 1999 30th Anniversary WS6 Trans Am #357 of 1600 Produced 2008 HHR SS 318 H.P. LNF 2.0 Turbocharged
Hey,
does anyone know the part number / model number for the proper relay to do this, like the one in the picture? Or will a standard 5pin relay work for this just the same?
Thanks, Art
i wana know too .ive had my mega shifter for sooo long and never bothered to install it . but that part number from radio shack would deffenetly help speed up the procces.