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 [...]
I was going over the car and noticed the way I had the floor made for the area behind the seats really was not going to work well with the duct through the car. So I cut it free and modified it slightly so the airflow will be cleanly directed to the back end of [...]
Today was mainly bolting on parts. The First thing was put the good front struts on with the ’97 model springs. They are the stiffest ones I have. I didn’t put the brake calipers on yet. I need to take the calipers off one more car so I can use the best set. I left [...]
Got the body on the car and have it sitting square. All the brackets are made up and adjusted to hold the bumper and fenders on in the right position. The rear bumper was pretty easy to mount it only needed two brackets to get it solid. I didn’t leave the trunk or top frame [...]
The car looks pretty good there but it is just temporary. I will have to make up a few more brackets for the front and back bumper. After everything is properly fit and working right I will then be able to start final paint and assembly.
Since the weather was nice I got the engine pulled out and cleaned up over the week after work. It was pretty fast to pull it out since I have done about 5 of these cars before. I took it over to the convertible and put it in place. I used a known good metro [...]
The convertible is close to being ready to start assembling. The only thing left is a bit of paint and making rear inner fenders out of some plastic garbage cans. I moved the convertible out of my work area and put the XFi in its place. The XFi was already parked due to rusty frame [...]
Did a few detail things to the floor and trunk area. So the only thing left was to put some paint on it before I start assembling the car. I figure since this paint will never be seen by pretty much anyone I should just go ahead and paint it myself. So my first attempt [...]
I put the last sections of the interior floor in place today. They are just spot welded since I am wanting to make sure it all fits together and works before welding them down permanently. The trunk floor framing was pretty easy to install. Getting the floor on it was a lot more work. The [...]
Got the last of the welds done on the strut towers so now it is time to start with the floor. I ran braces across the interior, making sure they line up with the seat rails so when I attach the seats they are right against the solid bracing and not just supported by the [...]
