ok so today i would like to accomplish one of the following...
!. get the tunrsignals working..
2. pull all the grey interior, and dash out of the red car.
3 swith all my brown interior with the grey.. including dashes..
4. switch both both doors from the red to the black car.( hello manual working windows!)
5.have all 4 plus sign wheels on the black car
6. pull fuel pump off the red... its a holly red if anyone is interested....
sit and relax and have a beer... lol
now the bad.... i dont have a headliner for the black car since the red car doesnt have a sun roof, and the red cars carpet is in terrible shape... but just the front seat area.. and door panels are in bad shape.....
anyone want to help haha?! i think im going to have problems with getting the dashes out cause i remember a few years ago when i did this same project with my 83.. same situation except all that i didnt have was the headliner... so i left it red as well as the top part of the dash... ok well wish me luck...

 

What about thse MF-ing plastic bits that wrap around the strut mounts for the hatch? Are yours in good shape? Mine WERE red....now they are pasty white.

 

well the brown ones are brown... the grey... well. almost white haha

 

progress so far... dash is still in... most everything is out but carpet and dash... one door off locks swiched and installed on my black car... one beer down... time to eat and purchase some more beer!

 

if you have one in decent shape, save that bastard for yourself.....THEY ARE IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND. And, if you have a whit one and it isnt totally dried out, try airbrushing it.

 

new door on roxanne

 

SEM paint, (found at your local autobody paint supplier), has a near perfect color to match the S3 gray. Take a look at my widebody build pics, most of the the interior has been painted. For the headliner, take an unfaded gray sample, door panel or a seat to your local auto upholstery shop and buy a matching headliner material. Then the fun starts, stripping off the old and glueing on the new. Use 3M 90 spray adhesive.

 

that was my thought exactly... i need to re do that top part on both door panels as well.... or make my own... iv seen a few guys on here with diy door panels that dont look half bad... but id also like to keep the stock look..... well back to the car more pics soon!

 

Take a door panel with you then, It's not that hard to recover just the top vinyl strip. My problem was I couldn't find a matching pattern for the seats. My door panels were mint but the seat fabric was worn down to the nubs. Oddly, not a single tear in the seats, just really thin fabric.

 

ok so.. 1 pizza and 3 beers in.....
so far...
the wreckage....
whats left....
ps... ill have some really nice brown interior soon if any one is interested.....

 

yeah looks to be a pretty easy job to fix, since it is straight across.... my 81 was the same way.. the seat fabric was super thin.... it seemed that every time you sat down it would tear some more!...
well back to work... got a new beer and im ready to get started on that dash.... got a guy comming to help out... and take the car away.... i hope we get this done befor too long. is hot out there!!!!

 

ok so...... how do i get these bolts out without removong the glass....? well i got two out .. but this one... i can not get to cause of the bump in the dash from the gauge cluster......

 

The 3 across the top of the daxh are a pita. When I did my first dash removal, it was tiny turns with an open end. You could try a 1/4" drive ratchet/socket or an offset ratcheting box wrench.

 

well this is how it ended up going....
and then...
and then there was one... with lots of extra parts....
so all in all today was very productive....i go tthe full interior, including dash, two doors, back glass hatch, fuel pump, back bumper, and all the wheels...and sent the car off to be a drag car... next... the remval and install into roxanne.... bleh.

 

what exhaust are you running?

 

well.. right now i have a header... some 2.5inch custom piping.. to a ebay potato shooter..

 

how's that sound? any pics of said potato shooter or maybe a sound clip?

 

welll. better then the sound performes awesome.. sound is pretty deep, really loud... alittle too loud i think.... its got some carbon fiber wrap around a tube cylinder like muffler... or not so muffler... but it looks like 5ziegen.. style. if that makes any sense... i dont have a sound clip at the moment but ill head out there tomorrow with my flip... and get one on here for ya!

 

yeah no i understand what you mean,any idea if a silencer would help with the noise? i mean it'd take away from the preformance but for daily drives it wouldn't be bad. and yeah a soundclip would be great thanks man

 

sorry the video is sideways... i had to use my phone... and place it in my shoe... lol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z32cZSgsiHA

 

doesn't sound overly bad. pretty cost effective exhaust. i wonder what a silencer would do for it :S rb header? and crush bent piping? oh and nice description very to the point

 

well the "mufler" came with a silencer... but i took it out, and it was a completely different feeling car.... sound and feel. with it in it was kinda higher pitched, now it sounds alitle more beast like, seems to have a diff. throtle response.... oh there is a presilencer right after the header...i completely forgot... not sure on how the pipping was done.. it was done befor i bought the car... but the guy said he spent like $500+ on it... i like the sound. but it will be off soon.... im bout to drop a turbo on the 12a!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! im so excited.. i hope to have it done by at least aug.

 

i'm planning on going T11 sometime soon,but not for at least a year or 2,i have a donor car available just not the money to buy it yet.it's an '89 the body it completely gone but the motor runs great. he only wants $800 but i was in school so funds are tight.

 

well today i started the switch... had to make my own carpet since the other carpet was no good... so $30 later..... also did my own door panels about $3.00 for those... check it out! tomorrow is dash day......

 

so iv been tearing out the dash today, got the grey one in just got the bottom parts left all the hard parts are done... i still really want to make an alluminum dash for her.... i pulled alot of the ac stuff out except the part in the middle since it was hookup to a line in the engine bay.. i dont have another car to use to get something for a block off. so that will stay for now.. taking a litte beer and pizza break then back to working on the dash... then the rear carpeting, the the headliner.... almost done!!!!!! the next week im going to finish the paint job... the all my money goes to the new motor!