Anyone know how I can make my signals flash faster? I am looking for specifics. Can I use a flasher from another car, and if so which one. It would be really great if someone had done this already. Thanks in advance.

 

The turn signal switch works just like a circuit breaker. To get it to open and close faster you would have to lower resistence in the circuit. The easy way to do that would be to wire resistors in parallel with the circuit. The exact value of the resistor would be trial and erro based on how fast you want them to fast. The only limint your going to have is the fuse for the circuit.

 

Mebbe try an electronic flasher unit?

 

Using heavy duty bulbs works too (designated with HD in the p/n.. ie: 1157HD). The The increased load the HD bulbs need to light, cause the bi-metal element in the flasher to heat quicker. The quicker it heat (and cools when the strip bends and breaks the contact), the faster the signal lamps flash.
This is why you see some trucks that have extremly fast signals when they are townig a trailer. The extra bulb on the trailer light makes the flasher element heat too fast.

 

If you go with an electronic flasher, changing the capacitor inside to one of a lower value would speed up the flasher operation, say go to about 2/3 or 1/2 the value of the original capacitor.

The capacitor leads are soldered to the very fine leads of the flasher relay coil windings, so you'd have to be very careful with it. The capacitor is also non-polarized, so be sure to replace it with another bipolar one.

Alternately, you could harvest a capacitor (of similar value) from a second 'donor' electronic flasher and wire the two capacitors in series. That would have the same effect as using a capacitor of half value. It won't fit back into the original case like this, but you would get the desired effect and could experiment with it.

Kind of a PITA but it should give you what you want!...