Fitting a Clifford Avantguard 5.5

Started by darknight7777777, August 14, 2009, 11:12:53 PM

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darknight7777777

I thought i would put up a posting of me fitting the above alarm myself and any one whos sees my car in its current state says i am mad, also once finished i will put up the wiring info so anyone can fit it easily.
 
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RobbieRX-7

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Reminds me of a few years ago when i fitted smartwindows 4 to my concept 650. Was much more time consuming than i first thought because........

The doors needed to be removed to pass the wires through.
Dash needed to be removed because the alarm ECU was tucked right up behind and was impossible to get access to and also very awkward wiring things upto it working upside down with the pedals digging into my skull.
I then had to order a Cliffnet wizard cable to program the ECU and setup my gaming pc outside to do it.
And at the time, the alarm was pretty new so getting an installation wiring diagram proved to be a bit awkward.

 Bloody nightmare looking back at it, but at the time it was fun!



darknight7777777

I was planning of taking my dash out also but i found a space behind the gauges for the intellistart and the avantguard units and it fits perfect. i didnt take the doors off as i managed to get my hands in the gap to feed wires through. I also have to wire in the following:
 
2 parking cameras front and rear
HKS Rev Ad
Defi Gauge Control Unit with gauges (Oil temp,Oil Pressure, Water temp and Boost)
Tein EDFC unit
Pioneer AVIC-F900BT Incar satnav
HKS EVC 5 with flashing steering wheel boost switch
Solenoid to control my Apexi ECV
High power Knightrider light (I know its cheesy but i am fan of the original show)
Front and rear Infrared projector lights
Convert my arm rest cushion thing to a hidden iphone docking station with buzzer to remind me to take it with me when i get out of the car.
Decide to fit a sleek light kit or not and wire it.
Rear lights modifications.
RX8 gear knob with light
change my square rear fog light to a rx8 one instead.
wire a relay into the ignition harness to make turbo timer through alarm
wire knightrider light to turn on through alarm
 
I think thats the list of electrical mods to do and hope to get it done by the end of next week so i can get it insured and learn to actually drive.

FD3S Efini

sounds like quite a big job...i wish you goodluck and i look forward to a good thread.
 
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