Put a solar strip on the roof, or a couple. It'll keep your batteries charged while the bus is sitting and when you're at the track. Almost free electricity is a no brainer, its a relatively small cost to buy them.

In the next episode, Taylor harnesses a small sun from a nearby galaxy to use as a "reading light."

You should add secondary red lighting to the cabin so you’re not blinded at night while driving

Start planning now for converting to air ride suspension. The torsilastic suspension on those is prone to failure due to rust. There is a design to add air bags without having to rip out the OEM torsion suspension.

I've worked with a machinist for 19 years and Taylor is correct. I know how annoying it can be but it also helps keep the accuracy and makes your bits last much longer.

I saw the wiring behind that switch panel and YIKES. You’ve shown us the way when it comes to making things tidy

You could consider adding a photoelectric sensor into the circuit so it only turns on the lights when it's dark out, or a master switch so they are only on when you want them to be. Also would be cool to add a picture of the Corvette below the previous owners picture!

KZfaq algorithm sent me here and I’m glad I did. I want this damn thing 😂 I didn’t know they even existed!!!

Once the garage light are done definitely gonna need a picture of the vette in there shed look mean!

I did the same exact thing with my wall mounted Craftsman cabinet. I had some extra limit switches from my 3D printers and wired it to some 12v LED white strips that are wired to a transformer! Its the simple things in life like having lights just turning on when you open a door that make you say " I did that and it actually works!" My wife hears about it every time I open the door when she's in my office!!

you should link the grounds on both sides ... then both sides will come on when you open either door ... so you can see back into the compartment without having to open both sides

Taylor, I'd like to help with the "Time Slip" you showed from the previous owners car. It was very blurry but I remember them from racing. It shows the usual, track name, date, time, car number...etc. It shows your cars time increments going down the track in feet, usually (330, 660 990 and finally 1320 = 1/4 mile). Some tracks it also shows MPH at those time increments. It shows ET (elapsed time start to finish ) and final speed (MPH) - both at the finish line.

I think you should put up a picture of the vette above the dragster. Each vehicle this bus gets to chaperone to competition should be memorialized!

it's nice those switches can be wired normally open or normally closed

I love that there is still the huge EGA on the front doors.

You may want to consider building an all terrain service cart that can live with the bus so it is able to serve the car at track and the bus at home

Replace the garage work lights with LED's. But try to get the ones with the Plastic lenses so that if you do bump one while thrashing on the car, so you're not standing in a glass minefield.

I hope you still plan on doing some power mods to this thing. For some reason I am just way to excited about that

Real talk tho i am always in for hauler content

Stick on motion sensor lights make a great addition to spaces like that. Theyre on for like 5 minutes after you open it, and anytime you go back in they turn back on.

You should run all of the power to your exterior lights through 1 switch. Like that, when you turn that switch in for at night or at dark, it provides power to the cabinets but it won’t during the day

Taylor, one thing that I’ve been thinking of doing on our bus is some lights underneath the edges. Ideally dual color amber or flip a switch for white just to light up the ground around the bus when loading or walking around at night! Love the lights in the bays! And the switches!

I installed gun safe lights in our knaack box . Sooo nice. They were motion sensing too. Only like $30 on Amazon. You walk up for a tool and it lights up

You could always screw some steel plates the the walls in a few handy locations for the magnetic drink holders.

This bus is such a sick combo unit. Love the video. I used 2 100ah lipo4 batteries in my trailer. Runs lighting, radio, inverter for some 120v stuff. Last all weekend. I run the generator if needed but hardly ever.

Just a warning with led lights, if your using ground on the switch there's a chance they will still be on but very dim. They have a bad habit of finding ground somewhere else and being a trickle drain on your battery.

I'd Throw a row facing upward from the inset center on the floor, for the occasional under inspection of the vehicle/working on the car inside of trailer.

That dragster thing is a Fuel Altered. so Nitro and altered wheelbase. they don't run them much any more, but they are definitely 6 second capable and probably the most rowdy and entertaining drag cars to watch. they are real drivers cars, it's often times more about who can tame them the most over who has the fastest car.

Man.. a T Ray video always brightens up my day.

You may be the only other person I’ve seen that gets as excited about light as I do😂 looks awesome

love the bus content. would love to see you guys road trip it eventually, maybe to Cali or western Canada.

Love it not only lights up the inside area but also the ground in front. Looks great!

Taylor Ray deserves to have over 1 million subscribers, been saying that for years

Simple and clean

Quality 14ga wire is plenty thick enough, IMO.

Replace the picture frame on the wall with a digital type and have rotating pictures in it

I've got those same lights wired under the hood, in the bed, and in the toolbox of mu truck. They are so good for the money

You could put a 12v photocell on the line side of the lights. You would have to mount it on the outside of the bus since it's a sensor, but it would help keep the lights off during the day. We use them at work for exterior lighting control.

I love projects like this. The older I get, the more important lighting is to me. I could charge people to tan in my truck bed the lights are so good.

The lug nuts on the front of that thing are freaking deadly! 😮

nice thing about the lights is that they light outside on the ground a bunch also if you gotta work on it you can pull it out and work on the ground also or if you drop a part on the ground.

Would be cool if you incorporated a picture of the vet into somewhere else’s in the bus so showed original history of that man’s cool dragster and now your time hauling the vet. Combined history and victory.

Can't wait to see the NEW Graphics on the Exterior of the coach too!!!....

Interior idea going off that pic of the drag car...u can replace those checkerd patterned ceiling tiles and put your favorite builds from over the years on there. Great videos, my dude. Keep up the great work

Just got a beanie. Honestly the chance to win the custom truck is pretty cool. But meeting Tayler and/or Jose would be even cooler. Been watching since og Miata build. Even have the gf watching now 😂

You should run a relay for the power to the lights that's trigger by another outdoor light. When the outdoor light is on, then the storage lights can turn on.

Check out the Kingston self driver led lights. You can keep your fixture but ditch the ballast. The bulb has it in one end. They are fantastic. They also make a fixture as well. Platt or an electrical supply for contractors will have them. Worth it for sure.

Somehow, grabbing the bigger drillbit to do step 2 of drilling through metal, i always have Taylor in mind. Funny, since i'm a Dutch plumber! You have international impact Lol. Have a great Newyears!!

super happy your working on this bus stoked to see what you do with it.

Happy New Year to you and yours. Good luck with your future endeavors in 2024

Keep adding lights, all over, don't stop until you go full Dekotora Drift Bus!

Taylor, in some situations like yours i will use a self tapper to help locate that have to be perfect!

Excited to see the awning get fixed! Keep it up! Love the content!

It is looking pretty awesome. I would think put some rgb light strips in the living space like on the floor boards and up on the ceiling there in the middle where that mirror type thing is that would make it top tier like the luxury rv's have now and some even have what is called fiver optic rgb lighting I haven't seen where you can buy that yet but it's amazing looking. Think of an led like an lcdtv and fiber optic lighting as going to an oled TV from an lcdtv.

The bus defiantly needs some fully pimped out under glow 👌🏻👌🏻😍

Man I sure do love when Taylor dose buss stuff

When you get around to updating the TV inside this beautiful rig, that would be the time to showcase your Corvette. Make it the screensaver/sleep wallpaper, you get to show off your sick car and similarly its the newer era on the modern TV and while also showing respect/tribute to the previous owner while still showcasing his drag car. TLDR; Put vette on updated TV Respect dragster photo

Yup very important that it fits in the hole nice and tight 😂

I believe that kind of dragster is called a nostalgia eliminator. My grandpa used to race one like it.

those look very similar to the slips my local track used to have. couldn't quite read them on camera though.

Lumilor paint would be sick.

Fender well lights would look killer while stationary or rolling.

Glad you decided to keep the picture of the builders dragster in there. It's badass, and it's different. Fun to look at.

Always be sure that the microswitches are rated for the current they will be expected to handle. You might need to use relays in conjunction with the switches.

This bus needs a sick underglow setup.

Blacklight should help you read the old slips

Hopefully it’s a full build series but I can see that entire rats nest of wiring being ripped out at some point lol I know its making ya twitch looking at it, real liking the bus🤘🏼

There should be a button on that meter to 'zero' the amp reading.

Nicely done 👍

Good start on the lighting more to do.

Light sensing diode If dark out - and door switch open - light turns on!

You should put in an inline on/off switch after the micro switch for daytime use. That way you’re not switch each light off during the day or on if you forget to and it’s night time.

Yesss! Bus content. Can’t wait to see this in person!

A note on wire size from someone who works with 12v all day every day, a single 14ga will be way more than sufficient to run all those lights, plus how often will you really have every single light on all at once? Id bet very rarely.

could put photoresistors in for daytime. track strip lighting might better fill the light.

A few well placed holes and now the bus has underglow too!

I love watching these videos! Its everything i wish i had! Now if i get it ill know!

If you put the wires in split conduit with p clips would be perfect

Those shrink sleeve connectors are great, especially in damp climates like Mine in Oregon and obviously down in Florida. Nice work there guys.

As a couple of other people have said. Add a master switch (or use the breaker if it's on it's own circuit.) rather than switching the lights off individually. The amp draw should be online, on the product page or in the info on the back of the light. With the Garage lighting, you could move one of the stair lights to above the internal door. So you have more lighting at the top of the stairs. With the 110 battens, are you going to swap them for LED battens or a different style of LED's?

Man, it actually throws out a lot of light outside on the ground, which seems very helpful too! Bus is big pimpin baby!! Let's get this bad girl wrapped already! Let's everyone know to lookout cuz Garage built is in the house boi!!

hy great work those lights

You could try and add the decked pick up drawer system in the pass through (tire storage) garage

The Bus needs some Under Glow! Maybe a sponsorship opportunity. with Type S!

Add photo frames of favorite car of each owner that had the bus

great work !

Proper mixed bag on this channel & I love it! ❤🎉

the slips is 1/8th mile bracket racing. dial in was 6.92, did a 1.39 60 ft, can't tell the 660 but looks like he ran a 6.06 1/8th mile.. slip looks like it's from september 19th 2015(?) from riverdale raceway in toutle, Washington (aka back arse of no where between seattle and portland). previous owners definitely did their fare share of driving around the country in that bus.

Push the reference button on the multimeter to zero it out….

Just a suggestion here... you can put 2 more where you have the fuel with a extending board coming out to light up the side of the car when your putting fuel... maybe not a board mor like extending arms with the lights on them. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

Hey bud, maybe for the frame in the cockpit/rest area of the RV maybe instead of replacing the original dragster pricture just stack yours on top and every car you travel with just add more sick race car pictures for the future ones. Cheers

Bus is sick. Super sneaky. Big time cruiser girl 9000.

oh thank god you uploaded, I was about to die of boredom

when you were speaking about the picture of the previous owners dragster, what about changing it for an digital picture frame wired to only turn on when the slide is out. that way you could keep the picture and add in picture of all of your cars or pretty much anything else you want in there.

Always love all the content t ray puts out. Happy new year bro

Had a hitch to it when you could pull your box trailer would be sick

Someone may have already said it but Put one in each wheel well.. that way if you get a flat you can see too.

Should wire all the cabnet lights to a switch, during the day, switch it off, the switches that toggle with door opening wont do anything if the entire thing is off, and you get to the track at night, and forget, it is just one switch to reactivate them

You can put a électronique pictures frame to switch from the Vet to the drag car

Hopefully with that much wiring and lighting the RV has a low voltage cut off or maybe think about adding one.