Thanks for linking his thread DF.

Haha, yea. It's the one they just released, does video chat too. How do ya think I've been keeping up baw

 

I figured your phone.

 

Busy man, I hope you can keep this pace up. It will surely pay off!

 

Check it out I got a radio for you and a surround. But catch is you gotta come get it And bring that Nikki with ya I got lots of things laying around here now that I am not going to use and if you can use them and want them they are yours. Get yer butt over to my garage and start diggin son!

LOL. Text me when you get some free time and I'll see what I got going on.

Good find Now at least you didnt call me to come dig it out of a valley in the desert overgrown with tumbleweeds and snakes...

Oh wait, no no, that's what I do.. LOL
Lemme know if I can help

 

damn duffman, i kept calling that guy but he never called me back =/ guess you beat me too it.
hope you do her well

 

Duff, bring me that Dash, I'll hook ya up

NUFF said... (just the top portion of course ... )

=)

Lemme know and I'll swing by your place sometime when you have it when I come out to visit my mom.

 

****, you guys need any parts off an 83? i'll be in town for thanksgiving

 

i noticed that too, it doesn't do much lol.... basically fuel pump, and tail lights

 

Yeah, the SA's are pretty basic. No rear speakers (despite the grilles - you can see where they should go in the sheet-metal, but there's no actual hole,) no rear wiper/washer. All that's going to the back is fuel pump, tail/brake, turn, license, and reverse lights, and the rear defroster, if equipped. Oh, power antenna if equipped - looks like yours has both, judging by the switch on the radio surround.
Yours appears to be a GS - four-spoke steering wheel, 5-speed, console with armrest, power antenna, rear window defroster, aluminum wheels - but as far as I can tell, no sunroof. Interesting.

 

Austin, I may have to take ya up on that stuff. Gonna go to next months meet? If so, bring em with ya and I'll bring the nikki and we'll swap em. As for the dash, don't wanna use anything than OEM as this is gonna be a stock for stock rest, CF would be neat but not for this one.

Keeble, haha sorry man. I jumped on this as fast as I could, lol. He said somebody in CO was gonna come get it if it were still available in the spring, musts been a lot of interest in her.

kev, pretty much. Sombody did cut the rears to fit 6x9s in and later replaced them with what look like stock speakers. The fronts were originals, still have the plastic over them and the lil snap connectors. As was previously mentioned, I'll have to dig up a replacement sub harness for the stereo and idk what I'll have to do with the main dash harness. There aren't any pics but it had a cruise control unit wired into it and, like the stereo, it was a hack-n-slash job. Hopefully it's all repairable.

 

Ahh, well, I'll make it to the meet bro.

 

Think it'll make it to Richardson?

 

Weekend Update. ( No Tina Fey unfortuately)

Well the car has no interior left in it now, everything either getting re-upholstered or repaired. The inside of the car has been halfway cleaned up with simple green and where its been done is a night and day difference, car doesn't smell so much like stale coffee and dirt anymore. The carpets have been pressure washed and dried, looking pretty good so they'll be re used except for the hatch carpet. Looks mangy and is faded pretty badly.

Started work on the rest of th dash harness and it actually wasn't as badly mangled as it appeared. The aftermarket cruise control unit was installed about as professionally as the stereo, duct taped wires and all.

Before:



After:


Center section of carpet after a good cleaning and vacuum:



Got the rest of the plastics outta the car too, they're all getting wet sanded and polished. Only got a couple pieces done so far.



Got the door panels off, didn't do anything with them yet. Gonna have a local upholstery shop look at 'em and tell me what they can do.


And that's it, running outta things to do with the interior. I forgot about that dash Stu posted up till a couple hours ago and missed out on it. Hopefully another will pop up eventually. Next weekend I think I'll start in the engine bay, gotta get a FSM first though. Just about every plastic connector is ruined too, most of them fall apart as soon as they're touched. If someone could post up that link to the site that sells the factory style connectors I'd appreciate it, I can't think of the name for the life of me.

 

That is a good amount of work you got done, AJ. Things are coming along nicely.

 

Del City might be able to help. I tend to just cut the connectors out of other Japanese cars, pull the pins, and insert the ones from my broken connector.

 

Excellent find AJ!! Looks like you're coming along nicely on the restoration. Keep it up...can't wait to see the finished product!

 

Keep at it sir, you're winning.

Be thinking about doing that clutch master while you've got the interior stuff tore up; that accumulation of surface rust on it is a usually a pretty sure sign it's bled out some fluid from the inner seal. Brake/clutch fluid attracts water like that.

 

duff keep it up, I so wish you weren't so far away I would be so up for giving you a hand, if you get her to SS14 I got your first drink! if you make it to WHiV4 with her I got the first 3!!! lol

 

Thanks man, how's the ABS delete coming along?

Thank ya sir, you and your SA are full of win lol.

Seriously though, aside from the IMSA SA yours was prolly my favorite SA/FB there. Holy super clean engine bay Batman!!

You're prolly right, everything in the engine bay is pretty much shot. Anything that was plastic falls apart when you touch it, the lil connectors, plastic reseviors, etc.. There's a stripe down the peddle assembly from the MC down, seems odd that it would run to that spot though.

Haha, don't hold me to it but she migh be done by then. If so, I'ma hold ya to that drink. I'll have to check out WHiV, saw the link if your sig but haven't looked yet.

 

Not much accomplished this weekend, only had a couple hours Sunday to fool with it. That being said, the interior has been completely stripped aside from the dash and headliner. There was so much dust under those lil panels that cover where the storage bins would be, I think it's still stuck in my teeth. Got all that vacuumed up then scrubbed the whole thing down and rinsed with simple green, now it's ready to go back together. Next step for the interior is upholstry, maybe next weekend I'll get a start on that. Need to get it up on the lift and see what's going on down there too, I dunno, I really need to make a list of things to do at this point.

 

If you keep plugging away at it like you are you'll be done before you know it! Keep up the good work.

 

Well you can count on it!!

Yeah check out WHiV it's basically a three day event with something for everyone

At the rate you are going I wouldn't be surpised that you get this project going relatively quick

 

About to start sourcing parts. Just finished my thesis this weekend and then I'm jumping into my own build. Missed the DFW meet on Saturday b/c of it, but I'll be working on the 7 for the next few months.

You having any luck finding the parts you need for the car? With such a small production window I'm guessing you may need to improvise here and there. Look forward to seeing your update pics!

 

i would say take the dash top to the upholstery shop as well, they may be able to recover it?

 

The cold's gonna slow me down a lot when it gets here, I'm a skinny lil guy with zero insulation. Give me 100+ anyday, ..

I'm further along than I thought I'd be at this point for sure, I'm saving the engine bay for last cause there's a looooota stuff to fix there. I wanna knock out all the smaller projects before tackling that. I've got a rebuildable 12a in the shed that might end up in it for the time being if I can find a 79 engine to go in it. Is there any way you could get me parts off the two out in your neck of the woods? Things like the dizzys, alts and external regs, A/C compressors, etc. I still don't have a list of exactly everything I need for under the hood yet though

Ah, so that's what you've been up too. Glad ya got it done.

Not really but then again I haven't been looking all that hard yet either. :/

IDK, guess it's worth a shot. Worse they can say is 'no'.