I really love those zinc plated rotors, they look so damn cool...

That 30th ani cluster is one hell of a score to...


But I may ask, why did the previous owner of those 99 spec twins install the coolant feed line wrong...?

Keep up the good work...


J.

 

I honestly didn't look at them all that close yet. The engine is still on a dolly and the newer turbos are in a box. I took them out to check manifold cracks and shaft play, snap a few pics and threw them back in the box, What are you seeing that's wrong? If the line is upside down then I'll move it when I install it should be obvious, as far what was the previous owner was thinking.., your asking the wrong guy.


Thanks for the nice words though.

 

Thats pretty cool.
That was my first thought lol.... I thought you were gonna have a lot of overspray and that you probably used plastic to cover your bench and tools. Kinda like making a mini booth around the car.

 

I've seen guys do that but it's not really necessary. Overspray usually manifest as dust which can be easily cleaned up after the fact. As far as keeping crap out of the finish, you just have to work clean and be cautious. It's not that bad, where there is a will there is a way!

 

Oh ok.
Ill keep that in mind for when i attempt to spray mine sometime in the future
Ill just have to cover the water heater lol.

 

Great Build!!! Full respect from me and can't wait to see it and admire it in person!

 

Thanks Phil, I'm getting there. This would go a lot faster if I wasn't married and had to time my purchases as to not alarm the wife with the frequency of packages arriving! lol She's going to love the wheels I'm about to get. I'm 80% sure I'm going to new 18" CCW LM16 with white centers, polished barrels and gold hardware. Here is the color scheme, but will be on the LM16 instead of the 505. As seen here. http://www.ccwheel.com/hybrid-gallery/wheels/14.jpg

 

oh wow, those wheels are going to look sick! I really can't wait to see this car finished

 

The seats are going to look badass too, Austin has a diamond stitched pattern for the inserts that he did on his car and it looks awesome in person.

Here is a set he did for another local guy who has a CW fd. These ones are done in red vinyl.
I'm going with black alcantara suede.

 

Those seats look amazing. Love how much detail is going into this. Nice work.

 

I'm going to bring you my seats when I come visit you so I can have mine done!

 

Austin's on here, I forget his screen name he's got the alcantara shift boots and e brake boots for sale in the 3rd gen classified.
Their shop is in Bel Air just north of "Balimer"

 

Austin's screenname here on the forum is 'turbodrx7'

 

the title "resurrecting" doesn't do this well thought out build justice. Nice work.

 

Very inspiring!!!!!

 

This past weekend I wrapped up the black painting of the cabin and dynamat. So I put the carpet back in. Then I took the dash apart to clean & painting the rebar and wipe down/ blow off the dust from the harness. I also washed out the plastic vents to hose out the dust from 1993. I also went ahead and pre-wired for the dual gauge cluster in the dash speaker location. I wired up two signal wires and a daisy chained lead and ground wire to each side.


Pics..
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An interesting footnote that was not documented with photos.


I had a broken vent on the pass side of the dash. One of the fins was broken. I did have one left over 94 dash vent pass side from my border stash. I went to install and found out that the 93 vent is a different size and shape of the 94+ vent. So I was forced to disassemble the two and steal a good fin piece off the 94 vent to use on the 93 vent housing.

I had a few beers that day and didn't pay attention to snapping photos. Would have been a good post...

 

Beyond the issue with the mismatched vents. The dash bolted back in fine and is off my list. I did go ahead and pre-wire for two gauges to get mounted on the dash. One will be water temp, the second most likely will be wide band.

A pic or two...
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A look back at a few photos of the dash parts under the knife.
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Pulled the dash skin off. Lot's of rust for a car that is mostly aluminum.


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Cleaned this joker up and put it back together.
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IMG_5532 by iojinxoi

 

So the next awesome foot note. I was able to score some 94 plastics from Rich, Goodfella for a good deal. This was after the little debacle I had with the guy parting out the 20k car in the classified.

Parts all look better than Rich lead on too. He made it sound as though these parts were "acceptable" Meanwhile not one is scratched. Thanks dude!

Pics..IMG_5494 by iojinxoi

IMG_5495 by iojinxoi

 

Rich seems to have a heavy unseen hand in this build so far. I also bought this 30th Anniversary gauge cluster from him as well. Here is the pic that Rich posted in the for sale ad. It's obviously green so I had to modify the A/C panel to light up green as well.
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So I found a dude selling a JDM A/C panel in the classifieds. I was mislead into believing I was getting a JDM panel, instead I just got two indicator lights and the three *****. The problem is that the fan speed indicator lights

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As you can see the 99 Spec JDM Fan speed **** indicators are not in the same layout. The plastic bezel is too large for the '93-'98 panel and had to be cut to fit. The black illuminated face has to be cut and fit to the correct spot on a 93 panel as well. Tedious but simple work.

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So you have to actually cut these little bastards apart to space them correctly on a 93 style plate. IMG_5729 by iojinxoi

 

Then you re-glue them into the correct spot and all is right with the world again.
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Mounts up okay though.


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"She will be green with envy"
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Spoiler... because an alcantara headliner is just too sexy not to post pictures of!!!!!!

-Austin

 

I love it! What else are you getting done in alcantra?

 

That's going to look so nice, Austin you're the man!

He is doing the seats, and the shift, brake boots for me as well. I might be dropping the trans tunnel off with you Austin, Not sure I want to fool with it myself or not. I know you're better experienced and would much better job than I'd do so I might just eat the down time and leave it with you when i pick up the rest of the stuff.

Post some pics of the seats for me when you get to them.