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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ttocs" data-source="post: 1184037" data-attributes="member: 11896">My video got delayed with the wait for the automation circuit for the WOT switch.  I thought it was going to be a simple little thing till I started too think of all the problems it could cause.  It is already open, when will it close, I didn't want to burn up the motors by overdriving them.  I found some help from a place that designed and built a elegant little solution to it all in a nice simple package.  He(Kevin) has built a small biz making small circuits like this to integrate into 12v items and liked the idea so he took the project on and now has a package ready to go if anyone else wants one.  <img src="http://carphotos4.cardomain.com/images/0016/72/07/16272770_large.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />I mounted mine under my drivers seat as there as an opening there to go down to the exhaust and some other important wiring.  The wiring going off too the side is to the switch that came to the cut outs that still works as normal in addition to The options his circuit gives me.  <img src="http://carphotos2.cardomain.com/images/0016/82/70/16272807_large.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Here is what it looks like now although the nut to hold the seat down is not yet tight.  While I had the seat out I decided to try out a 2nd plan I had to add lumbar to the corbuea GT2's I added before Christmas.  I always liked the adj lumbar option on the factory seats and had missed it a little on long trips and I had not been able to give my stock seats away for even $50.  I was tired of them taking up space in the garage but couldn't just throw them out with out salvaging the parts I wanted like the track motors and the lumbar support, as well as the seat belt holder I am going to try to work in later.  The stock switch went in easily next to the cut outs switch, even had a  nice label on it.<img src="http://carphotos2.cardomain.com/images/0016/72/28/16272782_large.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />The vacuum tubes for the air-bladder and the wiring went in pretty easily almost as if it belonged there.<img src="http://carphotos2.cardomain.com/images/0016/72/99/16272799_large.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Corbeau makes a lumbar kit for their seats(with a manual pump) but is a $100 option and I think they wanted another $100 to install it.  I asked their tech support how hard it was and they said it was easy.  The center section is held in with Velcro so pull it up, mount the bladder to a piece of cardboard and mount it to the frame under the insert.  It really was just that easy and now these seats have power lumbar just like the stock seats.Now Back to the cut outs and this new circuit.  I mounted  WOT switch this afternoon and ran a wire too the module.  There is a 2nd input that you can use to open the valves as well that I used and connected too the switch panel in my ashtray.<img src="http://carphotos3.cardomain.com/images/0016/23/71/16183217_large.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />So when I push #4 on the bottom in the ashtray it lights up one of the leds in my gauge cluster I made to let me know it was selected and then opens the valves for 3 secs and then leaves them open till the switch is turned off. <img src="http://carphotos4.cardomain.com/images/0015/76/46/15996764_large.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> And the finally the when I hit the wot switch it will power the valves open for 3 secs, leave them open for 15 secs and then power them closed for 3 secs.  Been waiting on this to finish up with some shots for my next vid to show it off.  Hopefully today I can take it out for a successful test run on the street so far in the garage everything is working perfectly.</blockquote>