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Hey all. Just wanted to share my car, as it has become an all out build.
This is what the car looked like about a month ago before all the car was taken apart.
Now, the car was all fine and dandy, for the most part. I had been itching for months to stop it's use as a daily driver and turn it into a more focused driving tool.
And then this happened. In retrospect I have to be thankful it happened, as it is what started the entire build off.
I backed out of my garage with my door half cracked as I always do (did), to easily get out of the car to close the garage. However this one time, the other car in the garage parked much worse than usual. This pushed me much closer to the left side of the garage. And that was that.
So I bought a door. It sucked, full of weird structural issues that I didn't notice when I bought it. So I bought another one. This time, super super clean, just unpainted (primered). It wasn't until I did research into the costs to paint this door, that I just bought an excellent condition OEM paint black door. So now I have 3 extra doors.
I swapped the lock assembly over in between all the other projects I am working on. Just need to get a new plastic wrap and the door is good to go.
In the mean time, I pulled the fenders off and installed some GarageStar fender braces. These were very easy to install watching the
video on it.
Next up was to get to work on the interior. I wanted to build the perfect interior, so that meant no more tan.
I ripped out the entire interior, dash included. I got to work with some soap and water, and a vacuum.
Clean-ish tub.
The next step here is to fully line it with Thermo-Tec Cool-It mats, before installing...
NA6 Dash!
I found a nice complete black interior set from a recently wrecked NA6. I scored the dash, black kick panels, rear deck panels, carpet and mats, seatbelts, trunk carpet, and some other random stuff for $220. All in great condition too. The dash had had a cover on it forever, so there was zero sun damage. Awesome.
Me disconnecting everything for cleaning and transferring wiring. Been following Adam's (revlimiter) guide very closely throughout.
Now as far as removing the dash, it didn't suck too bad. Pretty easy actually. Except for the this harness. I hated removing the passenger airbag harness. Ended up needing a small needle nose vice grip to push the tab on the orange connector hard enough to pull it out. Took about a day of procrastinating. :icon_cheers:
And that's about it for now.
To do list:
My ultimate goals for the car are to have a very simple and nice interior that is "all business", a solid drivetrain with some added forced induction power, and sticky tires. And of course to drive the **** out of the car.
This is what the car looked like about a month ago before all the car was taken apart.



Now, the car was all fine and dandy, for the most part. I had been itching for months to stop it's use as a daily driver and turn it into a more focused driving tool.
And then this happened. In retrospect I have to be thankful it happened, as it is what started the entire build off.

I backed out of my garage with my door half cracked as I always do (did), to easily get out of the car to close the garage. However this one time, the other car in the garage parked much worse than usual. This pushed me much closer to the left side of the garage. And that was that.
So I bought a door. It sucked, full of weird structural issues that I didn't notice when I bought it. So I bought another one. This time, super super clean, just unpainted (primered). It wasn't until I did research into the costs to paint this door, that I just bought an excellent condition OEM paint black door. So now I have 3 extra doors.

I swapped the lock assembly over in between all the other projects I am working on. Just need to get a new plastic wrap and the door is good to go.

In the mean time, I pulled the fenders off and installed some GarageStar fender braces. These were very easy to install watching the

Next up was to get to work on the interior. I wanted to build the perfect interior, so that meant no more tan.



I ripped out the entire interior, dash included. I got to work with some soap and water, and a vacuum.
Clean-ish tub.

The next step here is to fully line it with Thermo-Tec Cool-It mats, before installing...
NA6 Dash!
I found a nice complete black interior set from a recently wrecked NA6. I scored the dash, black kick panels, rear deck panels, carpet and mats, seatbelts, trunk carpet, and some other random stuff for $220. All in great condition too. The dash had had a cover on it forever, so there was zero sun damage. Awesome.
Me disconnecting everything for cleaning and transferring wiring. Been following Adam's (revlimiter) guide very closely throughout.
Now as far as removing the dash, it didn't suck too bad. Pretty easy actually. Except for the this harness. I hated removing the passenger airbag harness. Ended up needing a small needle nose vice grip to push the tab on the orange connector hard enough to pull it out. Took about a day of procrastinating. :icon_cheers:

And that's about it for now.
To do list:
- Thermo-Tec Insulation
- Install NA6 Dash
- Install Carpet
- Install Currently Unrevealed Rollbar <--- this one will be good.
- Pull Engine
- Timing Belt/Water Pump/Seals on new solid used engine
- Install FM Stage 1 Clutch
- Install 949 Coolant Reroute
- Stick that thing back into the car
My ultimate goals for the car are to have a very simple and nice interior that is "all business", a solid drivetrain with some added forced induction power, and sticky tires. And of course to drive the **** out of the car.