With the sunroof installed, the next big step is installing the headliner. The problem is I don't have a decent backer board for a sunroof car. I ended up piecing together one from parts of three broken ones I picked up at the salvage over the years. Just like everything else, it's turned out to be much more work than I planned. I tried fiberglassing just the joints, but have since decided to fiberglass the whole thing. I haven't had a chance to buy more resin and fabric.

In the meantime, I also removed the dash to install the wiring harness for the power windows/locks/mirrors and to clean up the dash and fabricate a glove box/drink holders.





This procedure was pretty easy, thanks to the instructions on this forum and the fact that I've removed a couple dashes from salvage yard cars. My dash is actually in pretty good shape. It has some small cracks in the bottom corners but is mostly just dirty.

You can see my Frankensteined headliner board in the background.

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Here's more information about the mount for the sunroof latch.

The bolts have square heads and are attached to thin pieces of steel that fit into the holes in the roof.





I bought some small carriage bolts and ground down the heads far enough so that they'd fit through the holes. I used nylock nuts to bolt on the latch. I'd spent a lot of time over a couple of days looking around the shop trying to find the factory bolts. When I finally finished installing my homemade ones, I found the two factory bolts in my box of extra latches.



I thought about replacing the homemade ones with these factory bolts, but the homemade ones worked fine and I like the idea of having some spares for whatever reason, so I packed these away.

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Haven't had much time to work on the car, but I did fiberglass the headliner last weekend. Tuesday night I spent some time trimming the excess cloth and sanding the surface smooth. I didn't have a section of cloth large enough to cover the whole board, so I had to make a seam along the surface near the back edge. That led to a rough spot that needed to be sanded down.





It looks rough but it's actually fairly smooth. I found headliner material on sale at Hobby Lobby and bought a big chunk for $11. I'm hoping the foam on the back of it will hide all of the imperfections.

I hope to get time in the next couple of days to glue the fabric to the board and then install the board.

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Headliner installed, sort of. I was looking around the internet a couple of weeks ago and came across this video on YouTube, which I found very helpful:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdTl01qI-mo

The best tip in the video is using the backer board as a pattern to mark the areas on the fabric where adhesive should be sprayed. I used Permatex headliner adhesive.



I couldn't tell from the video how much extra material to leave in the sunroof opening so I went with about 2".


My Frankesteined backer board gave me problems along the edges of the sunroof opening. I guess when I fiberglassed the pieces together I didn't get enough arch in them, so that part of the backer board sits too low once it's installed in the car.

I also couldn't figure out how to work the corners of the sunroof opening. You can't cut them, so it takes some work to get the fabric to stretch to be pushed into the gap and the plastic trim/holder pressed into place. I ended up using a rubber hammer to seat the plastic.



It's not perfect but I'm satisfied for now. I could see taking it apart at some point and making a backer board from scratch that will fit perfectly.

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I really need to pull the console skeleton out to rebuild it, but it's so dirty and broken I'm having trouble getting motivated. I did dig out the other interior parts from the shelf. They're worse than I remember them, especially the console door. About half the vinyl has pulled apart from the plastic, so I began the process of gluing it back, one edge at a time. I'm also gluing the door arm rests and the center console upright.

The plastic tabs on the inside of the A pillar trim pieces broke off, so I'm gluing the steel clips to the inside. I managed to get three of the four plastic clips out of the holes without breaking them. Guess an order from the Fiero Store will be happening soon.

(sorry for the blurry photo but I was in a hurry to close up the shop and go home)

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