So, the power tour has come to my area. One of the local purveyors of performance products hosted an open house event with tours and such. Pretty much a car show in the parking lot so I snapped some pix.
We are on the tour, pretty good stuff. We are up in the engineering room, so I asked where they kept the "magic smoke" , got a little laugh. We get down to the assembly area and it seems they hand crimp this stuff. So I asked. He said much of it was so small that it just wasn't cost effective to have it done on a machine. I get that. The only thing holding a weed bender like me back is the connectors and the high tech wire. Oh yeah, I asked about that too. It seems they use a conductor with about twice as many strands as the or and a better insulation that can do way more than the pvc stuff the OEM used on old cars. Good stuff. I probably should have taken pix but it wasn't that cool. They had a bunch of fixtures so they could make different harnesses. It looked real nice and it was real clean.
Interesting hood bulge, I didn't get to see under it. It had sparkly blue paint kinda like a bass boat.
http://postimg.org/gallery/1qa7swsws/The rest of the pix. Even got a couple of that black car, the only Buick I saw.
