Made a big change in the look of the car today. I installed all of the body panels and for most of them they will not be coming back off again. I forgot to put the hood latch cable in so I will have to take the drivers front fender off and drill a hole [...]
I have most of the electronic stuff hooked up and ready in the car so I figured it was time to test it out. I made a battery tray and installed the battery in the car. I didn’t try and start it yet since there is no exhaust and it would be really loud. The [...]
Got all the main wiring done in the dashboard and all the components are installed so it was time to mount the dashboard. Everything fit together pretty well except the upper bolts that hold the dash are too short so I will have to get longer bolts and install them later. The seats are not [...]
I put the carpet down on the interior today and fitted the rear plastic panels around the roll bars. The carpet was easy to put down on a flat floor. It just took time to cut and fit it into place. After that was done I cut the rear panels to fit so they cleared [...]
Used some old computer cases and made sub boxes. I also closed up the last of the holes in the back. I need to glue up the joints but that is no big deal to finish. I also closed up a bunch of small gaps in the floor that don’t photograph well. The sub boxes [...]
I had some other stuff to work on today so I didn’t get a lot done. I fit the parking brakes and gear shifter back in the car. The parking brake was easy, I just had to cut the mount out of the old car and weld it into the new one. Then drill some [...]
Lot more random stuff installed. First thing was to put the rear inner fenders in. I used some plastic garbage cans and cut the bottom 10 inches off it and fit it into the fender. I riveted them in place. I will need to seal them up with sealer still but they are in there [...]
This weekend has been a lot of things that don’t photograph well again. I started with sealing up all the holes and gluing shut everything that is no longer being used in the car. I had to seal the cowl opening for fresh air and the sides of the firewall. After that I cut up [...]
Figured I would put a quick post on here showing how the dashboard looks right now.
I have the rear view mirror replacement screens mounted in the stock vent locations. The center of the dash has been more or less cut away and using the sun visor part off a 91 dashboard for a sun visor [...]
The wiring harness was not that hard to install into the car. I have been labeling everything as I take it apart on the XFi so it was just a matter of fishing all the wire through the holes and into the interior. From there I just unhooked it from the zip ties and moved [...]
