Install A Brake Light Flasher

[imported_PunkRacer]

written by: C.J. Beck
from:civic.vtec.net

**note**for 92-95 may differ from year to year***

Install a Brake Light Flasher

Have you ever been going down the road and have someone tailgating you? This modification will allow you to flash your brake lights at this person without necessitating that you remove your foot from the gas pedal.

This is a relatively simple modification. First, go to Radio Shack and get a momentary switch that is normally open (a push button switch). The one I bought is about 1 cm square and has a red switch with a black fairing. I mounted the switch on the side of the hand brake console, requiring that a hole be drilled. The hand brake console is removed by popping out the rectangular cover just under the hand brake, removing the two philips-head screws, and sliding the console slightly backwards. The switch covers the hole perfectly, though, so all turned out well. The switch was placed about halfway down the side of the console, and just a little behind the seat belt socket with the seat positioned where I feel comfortable. The idea here was to have the switch accessible, but not too easily mistakenly hit. Take notice that the switch I bought needed about 1/2 inch clearance behind it, so don't mount it anywhere where this clearance doesn't exist.

In any case, I ran two wires forward from the switch (after soldering the wires to the two poles of the switch). This required removal of the trim covering the shifter (on the five-speed, remove the shifter knob (it simply unscrews)) by removal of the two screws just left and right of the cup holder. I also removed the lower center console (the one that includes the ashtray) by removal of the two screws under the radio and the two screws on the left and right hand sides. I then fed the wires up through the dashboard into the general area of the base (pivot point) of the brake pedal, then replaced all the trim pieces-be sure to lock in the back edge of the hand brake console by starting about one-quarter inch back and sliding it forward until the holes line up in the front.

The electrical connections were difficult only because of the lack of space to splice into the wires. Find the switch near the base (pivot point) of the brake pedal (if you have a 5-speed, make sure you aren't looking at the clutch pedal). There should be two wires coming off this switch: a green wire with a white stripe and a white wire with a green stripe. You will want to connect one of the wires from the momentary switch to the green/white wire and the other to the white/green wire. I found it easier to trace the wires from the actual switch, over the steering shaft, and solder into the wires where they seem to join up with another, larger wiring harness. There was simply more room to work with at this point. That's all there is to it.