Voltage regulator on 289 LUCAS or AUTOLITE

[Dan Case]

Originally Posted by LMH

Definitely from a price point. It all boils down to how accurate do you want to be. The Autolite harness bits are the hard ones to replicate. Molded ends are expensive and pieces like the three plugs that pass through the firewall make it high dollar. It took me months to find the correct alternator plug!
Of course, right after I found one, two showed up on eBay! ( I had to buy them too!)
Larry

This thread is probably creating lots of confusion. I believe that Alf has the desire to work towards replicating the look of the cut back door car Ken Miles used for development of racing parts. That car started off like other cars of the time but changed a lot quickly and many features it had were unique to it real soon. It wasn’t really a “FIA car” or any other one rule book car. Sometimes it had to race in non-production classes because it was so unique. I don’t have any pictures of that car when it was first completed (before the metamorphosis in a much modified racer) that shows its wiring that I am aware of. It could take hours to just go look. This thread has mixed street, cut back door general, and the Ken Miles car. Part of the mix was just to give some detail on what type electrical system parts cars were getting in 1964. Late street car and late race car wiring to connect those devices are different subjects. Late race car wiring was not neat and pretty. It was crude and simple without all the group wired over-molds and neat spiral tape wraps and part number labels street cars had.

This is a blurry cut and paste alternator installation from a picture taken by the factory photographer of a freshly completed car. As an example the fancy Ford production alternator connector was not used. Instead wires were run individually with connectors installed on each individual wire. When I have said late race car wiring was custom I mean completely custom, nothing like street cars.



Bulk head wiring of the same team race car compared to a street car of the same time chassis number range. Just a handful of wires pulled through a hole in the wall.