Dr. Dan Schubert's Contraption...

Okay Folks,

I love when customers get creative. This is a great example.

I first started talking to Dr. Dan Schubert in early 2008. He got wind of the upcoming arrival of ISIS and wanted in. I remember him telling me that he was an early adopter and wanted to be the first ISIS Intelligent Multiplex System customer. His MASTERCELL and POWERCELLs have hand-written serial numbers 1, 2 and 3.

Dr. Dan has come up with a practical (as far as kit cars can be practical) solution to the problem of back-up lights on the Factory Five Roadsters. He has a pretty clever mechanism wired into an output on his rear POWERCELL that drives a mechanism that drops down a reverse light from the car's frame. When he takes it out of reverse, the mechanism retracts the light and it hides back in the frame.

You can see a video of Dr. Dan's handy work at the link to his Photobucket site. You can also see the pictures of his overall Factory Five build and his ISIS wiring install.



http://s325.photobucket.com/albums/k385/schubertdr/My%20Cobra%20Project/?action=view¤t=P1050584.flv

Jay

Check out the ISIS Power Coverage in Corvette Enthusiast...

Hello All,

Check out the latest ISIS coverage in the May 2010 edition of Corvette Enthusiast. Click on this link to get to their archives.

http://editions.amospublishing.com/KPCV/default.aspx?d=20100501

The magazine will pop up on the left of the screen. Use the arrows on either side of the magazine to go to page 78. That's where things start.

I originally met Larry Jewett at SEMA in 2008 and he has been a great supporter since then. We were on a press tour in late 2009 and had dinner with the rest of the Amos team near their offices in Florida. I had given the ISIS demo in some pretty interesting places, but never quite like this one. After we finished dinner, we set up the demo across the bar and showed everyone there the benefits of using ISIS to replace your traditional wiring harness in a car. The bar tender was sold immediately.

Jay

Check out Dan Ward's ISIS Coverage in Truckin' Magazine...

We had been talking with Dan Ward of Truckin' magazine about doing an install for his magazine for a while. We were thrilled when he said that he had a project with Aaron Iha of Chassis by Aaron Iha. They do some top notch work. We were even more excited when they told us that this truck was being built for Howie Kendrick, second baseman for the LA Angels.

We got right to work with Aaron and his team on laying out an ISIS 3-Cell Kit to power the truck, a 1967 Chevy C10. We created a custom configuration for them that allowed the truck to stand out. This included things like our one-button start, theatre dimming and daytime running lights. These were all built into ISIS so they didn't have to integrate any additional modules to make this happen. According to Aaron: "It all worked out really nice and I would definitely use the system in future projects."

Thanks to Dan Ward and his team at Truckin'. Also thanks to Aaron, Christine and the rest of the team at Chassis by Aaron Iha.

You can check out the article at this link. There are a lot of great pictures showing the wiring in the truck and where the mounted the different ISIS cells. You can also see more coverage of the ISIS Intelligent Multiplex System in the media section at www.isispower.com.

Check out ISIS Power on Facebook

If you haven't been there yet, check out ISIS Power and the ISIS Intelligent Multiplex System on Facebook. You can get there from this link.

Facebook has a huge community of people restoring, building and most importantly wiring cars. There are great groups to join to interact with people working on almost everything including Mustangs, Camaros, muscle cars, pro-touring, 1950's classics and antiques.

There's a lot to learn so check it out.

Jay

Updated Airing Times for Two Garage Show Featuring ISIS Power

We got an update on the future airing for the Two Guys Garage shows featuring the ISIS wiring install in the Factory Five '33 Hot Rod. Shows like this are always preempted by live coverage and can be moved around at any time.

Here's the updated schedule.

Episode 901 “Factory Five Build Part 1 - The Engine”
SUN 5/30/10 9:00am
WED 6/2/10 3:00pm
SAT 6/5/10 10:30am
Episode 902 “Factory Five Build Part 2 - The Body”
SUN 6/6/10 9:00am
WED 6/9/10 3:00pm
SAT 6/12/10 10:30am
Episode 903 “Factory Five Build Part 3 - The Test”
SUN 6/13/10 12:00pm
WED 6/16/10 3:00pm
SAT 6/19/10 10:30am

Parts 2 & 3 are where you see the wiring of the ISIS 3-Cell Kit in the car.

Please check local listings for exact time and be aware that SPEED may change airdates or times due to live events, which preempt taped programming.

ISIS Being Installed in Kevin Tetz's LPGT Mustang Project...

If you don't get Modified Mustangs & Fords delivered to your house, run out to the news stands and pick up a copy of the May edition. Mark Houlahan is the editor and he has been a great supporter of the ISIS Intelligent Multiplex System since the beginning. I first met Mark in October of 2008 on our first editor tour, even before we debuted ISIS at SEMA. Mark, a true Ford guy and a Factory Five enthusiast, had been following us on the forums and new everything about ISIS even before we pitched it to Source Interlink.

At the same time, I have had a chance to get to know Kevin Tetz. You may know him as one of the hosts of TRUCKS!, part of Power Block TV. Kevin is assembling a tremendous Mustang restomod. He is adding all of the bells and whistles including wiring it with our standard 3-Cell Kit. Kevin penned an article for Mark and it appears in the latest edition of the magazine.

Check out the article in Modified Mustangs & Fords to get an update on where Kevin is with the car. You can even see pictures of where he will mount his POWERCELLs. Also, look at the inMOTION blurb in the new products section of the same magazine. You can see the article here.

Jay

Battery Wiring on Two Guys Garage Factory Five '33

We have had a lot of people ask about how we routed power from the battery on the Factory Five '33 that we wired on Two Guys Garage. That part wasn't clear on the show. Here’s how we wired everything from the battery, including the disconnect.

First, we set aside the 4-AWG gauge wire that came with the Factory Five kit. Most people don’t realize that for the first few milliseconds after you start to crank the motor, the starter can be drawing up to 1,500 amps. That much current flowing through long, undersized cable from the battery can drop a lot of voltage. Sometimes this can be 6 to 7 volts right when the ECU needs it the most. Here’s where we tell guys not to skimp on cost & weight.

We got a good length of 00 gauge cable and ran it from the battery to a primary 500-amp fuse. This length of wire is pretty short. The goal is always to minimize the length of unprotected wire. From there we went to a good high-current disconnect switch. Here’s another place where getting cheap can hurt guys. First, you need to make sure that the disconnect can handle the steady-state current draw of the battery. Look for disconnects that have a continuous-duty rating of 150 to 200-amps at 12-volts.

Second, run the starter current through the disconnect switch with caution. Starter solenoids only draw current when they are energized so you don't have to include them in the disconnected part of the power feed. The way we wired the '33 doesn't run the starter current through the disconnect but the car is still completely disconnected when you open the switch.

If you are going to include the starter cable on the disconnect, make sure that the switch that you choose has an intermittent rating of 1,500 to 2,000 amps.

We connected the rest of the 00 gauge length and ran it to the starter in the front of the car. We also connected the included length of 4 AWG cable to the switch and ran that the common buss bar on the Mega holder block that include in the ISIS 3-Cell Kit. We connected the 2 pairs of 8-AWG wires to the fuse holders and ran one set to each POWERCELL. You can get this schematic off of the ISIS Intelligent Multiplex System website.