A few weeks back I made the image below my desktop background, I did so partly for aesthetic inspiration and partly as a constant reminder to myself to keep chipping away at all the tasks that come with a project like this
One night while staring blankly at my screen I noticed that the car only has one windscreen wiper!
I was vaguely aware that of some BTCC and Supertouring cars only had the one wiper but until that moment didn’t realise that was something done to the JTCC civics
And so I started thinking about how they might have achieved this
My first thought was that perhaps they used a rear windscreen wiper assembly out of another vehicle, a CRV or Odyssey, something along those lines with a large rear window
I was discussing this one night with Tom at his workshop when we realised that his CRX still has the scuttle panel missing and that we would be able to have a good look at the wiper mechanism on his car
After familiarizing ourselfves with how the factory front wiper assembly works
We reasoned that it might be possible to remove the driver side wiper and just index the passenger side wiper on it’s spline
So that was the plan when I got into the garage this afternoon
What I soon found out was that the original front wipers from the EG were going to be way too long to use in this way
So with measuring tape in hand I made a quick trip to the local pick-a-part in search of a suitable wiper
I found one on the back of a station wagon that was about the right length (and bent the “other way” and took it home
If you compare the length of the wiper on my car below to the one in the top image it’s not too far off!
I connected a spare battery directly to the wiper motor to test the range of motion of the wiper
When I refitted the scuttle panel it restricted the range of motion toward the drivers side so i’ll give that a trim next time
With the standard linkage untouched, the wiper makes it just over halfway across the screen
It’s hard to know how much wiper coverage I’m really going to need for this car (not much I reckon)
But looking at this photo it looks like the JTCC car’s achieved a bit more angle
I’ll probably leave it as is for now and look into modifying the linkage in the future