[ChrisMal]

First off, I don't think that posting this will give would be thieves any great benefit, however if you think so and give a convincing argument, I will be happy to take this down.

A little background. As a new owner of the 23 SS 1LE, I am not overly concerned in my day to day life, as she is tucked away in a garage, keys in a faraday box in the house, bag when I'm out and about and not driving. Car parked behind in the driveway, etc.

My concern is for when I take it to track days, or any other (rare) time when it might be at a hotel, in a parking garage, or unattended overnight outside.

So I contacted Ravelco, and they have no installers for me, same for IGLA. I really like the idea of a purely mechanical (electrical? no software) solution. Ravelco is essentially a fancy kill switch. I like the kill switch in theory, but I struggled with the idea that I need to find a place to hide it, that is convenient enough for me to use it, but hard to find.

So what if I built a kill switch that I could still make not obvious, but not be overly concerned if it is located? Enter the rotary switch. Layers of security are good, why not add layers to the kill switch?

In general terms here it is. Rotary switches. 3 rotary 1 pole multi position switches in series or 4 or however many you want. These come in everything from 2 position, to 24 or more, but let's keep the cost reasonable ok? 3 10 position switches wired in series gives 1000 combinations, 12 positions gives you 1728 combinations, only one of these completes the circuit. You can get these switches in multiple deck configurations, meaning that you can make one set of switches break/complete multiple circuits. You could wire in a pilot time delay relay, so that it takes x seconds once the switches are in the right position and there is no immediate indication that the circuit was complete. If you have to pause 3 seconds for each switch combination in a 3 switch 12 position setup, that is 40 minutes to get through half of the combinations.

Now the obvious gotcha is if you can access the bottom of the switches. So mount them in a steel outlet box and fasten the top mounting plate with security screws or get creative. These boxes will have knockouts that you can run flexible metal conduit into to make accessing the wires difficult. There's more you can do/I have done to make it so that even if you do find the box, open the box and access the bottom/business end of the switches and wires, that's not the golden ticket, but I don't want to put all that in here.



tldr; rotary switches in series act like an electrical combination lock, prevent access to the business end of switches, have a plan for the wires coming out of your switch containment area.

Again if this is too much info, mods feel free to delete, or if I get a good argument how this helps a would be thief, I will delete it myself.

Happy motoring, and may your Camaro remain your Camaro.