Tech Tips

Expert tips to customize and maintain your hot or street rod.

Custom hot rod switch panel with illuminated function indicators: parking brake, cooling fan, headlights, and oil pressure warning switches with colored LED lights

How to Wire Hot Rod Switches

How to Wire Hot Rod Switches: Relay Wiring, Polarity, and Panel Layout Explained Wiring a hot rod switch panel isn't hard. But a few small decisions make the difference between
custom hot rod classics

Guide To Custom Hot Rod Terms

6 Hot Rod Interior Ideas & Components to Give Your Car New Life If you're anything like our team at Watson's StreetWorks, you know that keeping your hot rod's custom

Talkin’ About Taillights

As people add turn signals to their old street rod or as they do more major modifications by changing or adding
lights, they often become confused about the circuitry of the taillights. For full visibility at the rear of the vehicle
we need three distinct functions: …

Remote Controls and Relay

Here’s the PDF Download of this article. Remote Controls and Relays by Steve Watson, Watson’s StreetWorks Remote controls are definitely the hot electronic item in street rodding these days. That’s

Shine Light on LEDs

Here’s a PDF Download of this article. So, What is all this Fuss about LED Lights By Steve Watson & Harvey Richardson Lighting on the earliest cars was done with

Shopping for Switches

Here’s a PDF Download of this article. Switches “Shopping for Switches”, Important Considerations by Steve Watson In order to achieve the new look in dash boards and/or consoles we need