Another Porsche 911 Project #9
by Mads – January 21, 2021
Nightmare Electrics
To be completely honest… I don’t get it. Electrics, I mean.
Not in a “I didn’t try” way.
More in a “this is clearly a different language and I was never invited to that class” kind of way.
When wiring becomes a foreign language
At some point in a build like this, you reach a stage where everything still looks like a car… but nothing behaves like one.
Wires disappear into other wires. Colours start to repeat. Connectors seem to exist purely out of spite.
And then someone says: “You just have to measure it.”
At that moment, I start thinking about very small islands with no electricity at all. Just me. And silence.
Good help changes everything
Luckily, I had Roland. The kind of guy who doesn’t talk much while working, because talking is apparently not part of the process when you actually know what you’re doing.
My job was simple: stay out of the way and document what was happening. Even that was confusing most of the time.
But there was something reassuring about watching someone work who never once looked uncertain. Just calm decisions. One after another.