Thanks! I plan on copying your fuel pump relay location and kill switch idea when I get to that point. I have all of my wires run, just need to pick up a relay and switch now.


lol, thanks. I have a page in my notebook of different colors I wanted to go with. At last count was 14 colors. 8 different blues and 6 different reds. As of recently, I have it down to two. Vintage Red Tricoat, or Velocity Red Mica. Leaning more towards Velocity Red at this point. I'm a quite a bit away from paint, though.

The car is in desperate need of pillow ***** and bushings. So far the lowest I have been quoted is 3500 for a full respray, including the jambs. I have one other avenue I am going to try. I am going to prep the car myself, purchase the paint, and take it to a friend and see what kind of a deal I can get. I am trying to at least have it ready so I can make it to DGRR this year.

 

In all honesty i have had good luck with MAACO i had my old mustang paint there and my Z28 it was 1200 for both jobs and they needed work done (Z28 was a complete colour change so they did the jams and hatch and such as well) i bet if you have prepped it yourself and they just spray it, it would turn out nice but it also depends on how good the painter is just my expierence but either way good luck!

 

Aren't you suppose to have a battery seal case if you relocate your battery inside the car, or do you need a sealed battery? :s

 

a sealed battery is needed when the battery is moved inside the car.

 

Its an Optima...

 

lol thanks i know i asked it weird
you don't say

 

I don't understand what's going on. Let me preface this comment by saying: I'm not trying to be a dick, but if you can see that its an optima battery (sealed gel cell), why would you pose the question of the battery having to be a sealed box? I copied the moconner write-up nearly to a T, and he has a sealed battery that ins't a box. I'm not seeing what the problem is, if one even exists?

 

Noooo i'm not trying to imply you're a dick, I just asked a question in a dumb manner. But now I know optima batteries are sealed

 

Nice FD! Looks like it needs some TLC. What do you have planned?

 

Probably pillow ***** and power flex bushings with my income tax. Hopefully I'll have enough left over to do a speedhut cluster since mine is completely dead. Then I need to save some money for paint, coilovers, wheels/tires, then onto the engine.

Ideally I'd like to have a street port, GT35R, maybe 16-18 psi with AI. Nothing insane, all things that have been done before. Just want a solid and decently quick street car.

 

Picture I forgot to add. I got this shifter plate/boot from a guy over on norotors. He makes them the swap guys since they notch the front portion of the transmission tunnel to fit a T56. I notched mine just to make getting to the front shifter bolts a bit easier. I believe I am the first to utilize one of these with the stock transmission, and it fits perfectly. Very high quality piece, and if I'm not mistaken around the same price, if not a bit cheaper than the factor cover. If anyone else is interested, I can let him know and perhaps he can come here to get a vendor account and start a group buy.

 

How's the build going?

 

Have most of the interior back together. Had a speaker box built last weekend. Just trying to get some money together to tie up some loose ends. Have a few estimates for paint. Just trying to save up so I can get this thing looking at least decent for the time being.

Also, finally got a PFC and got it all set up. Car runs crazy awesome now. Idle is perfect, no more hiccups at idle, and just overall pulls really hard.

 

I am curious as to what you did to restore or clean up the factory plastics and trim on the inside. Yours look great and mine look like complete crap. Please share what you did to them besides swap them out with the donor interior?? Mostly of course the trim around the heat/ac ***** and shifter plastics......Great work thus far!

 

First, I used a scotch brite green pad soaked in some Sure Solv:



That was to get the original rubber coating off. I assume any adhesive remover would work. Then I went over that with 600 grit sand paper, then over that with 1000 grit sandpaper, then one last time with 1500 wet sand paper. Rub the panel down with some alcohol, then go over with a tack cloth (not really necessary). Spray 2 light coats of Duplicolor sandable primer. then spray with two coats of Duplicolor bumper coating. Viola! New panels.

The bumper coating has a really nice low gloss finish to it, its rather resilient, and has a bit of flexibility to it. Overall, I'm happy with the results. Let me know if you need help with anything else.

 

nice to see a refurbished interior!

 

Reborn, thanks to Kyle at Speed1:









Also has a new OMP, and a new(used) front bumper (thanks Supernaut).

 

^ So you are the one who bought this car? Is this going to be at the carlisi meet?

 

Yeah. It should be there.

 

 

Some really good progress on bringing the car back to life.

What process did you use on the panel plastics to refinish them while still keeping the factory look?