I finally did remove the skeleton and it was in even worse shape than I thought. Don't know why GM used such brittle plastic for this part.



There were some surprises underneath:



No idea how seeds could get up inside there. Maybe mice left them. Notice how much the carpets have faded. I hadn't looked closely at them since I had them out of the car to pressure wash them five or six years ago. They'll be coming out again in the next few days so I can finish cleaning up the interior, but I can't afford to replace them just yet.

Then found this plug pushed down under the right side of the console toward the front of the car. Covered in grease and taped inside a plastic bag.





Haven't had the chance to look over the area to see what it plugs into, but Facebook says it's for the door buzzer.

As expected, the wiring for the aftermarket radio is pretty messy.



I checked this radio to make sure it worked before pulling the duke and associated wiring out of the car. It has an auxiliary jack and a remote, but I'm leaning toward replacing it with a new one that's got bluetooth. I saw somebody post this Crutchfield parts list on Facebook and I may use the same one.

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Since the interior is out of the car, I'll be replacing the stock shifter cables with a set I got out of a V6/5-speed car in the salvage five years ago. I didn't mark the cables when I pulled them out of the donor car, so I don't know which one is which. The original cables are covered by rubber hoses in the engine compartment. These V6 cables had some worn out heat shields so I just cut them off.

I did notice the grommet is bigger on one of the salvage yard cables, same goes for the cable in the car.



The exhaust manifold faces the back of the car on the Quad, so the shifter cables will be fine unshielded.

It's been a few years since I tinkered with the shifter cables and related hardware so I don't remember all the details. I was in the middle of fabricating my own shifter cable brackets for my GTZ Getrag when a V6/5-speed Fiero showed up in one of my local salvage yards so I grabbed these cables.

I don't know how anyone else's brain works in a project like this, but for me it's like spinning plates. I study up on each phase, then start the work. If too much time passes between the studying and the work, I have to do the studying all over again because some of the plates have fallen off the sticks.

The good news, since I'm now dealing with shifter cables it means working on the Quad and finishing the swap is getting nearer.

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Only had a little time over the weekend to work on the car, so I spent most of it epoxying the console skeleton. While the epoxy was curing, I pulled the stock shifter cables out to compare them to the salvage yard set. In this photo the stock Isuzu cables are on the bottom. They're quite a bit longer than the V-6 Getrag cables.



The shift select cable attaches much lower on the Getrag than the Isuzu cable does, so it has to make a sharp 90-degree turn, which requires it to be much longer than the shift cable.



Disappointed to find some damage to the casing in the select cable I bought from the salvage yard.



Haven't decided what to do about it yet. Rodney Dickman sells some nice ones, but at 140 bucks a pop they're pricey. I'll see if I can clean this one up and replace the damaged casing with something.

I also removed my newly reupholstered headliner and ripped the fabric off. Once I scrape and vacuum the foam off, I'll set about cutting it up and making sure it's the right size and shape. I bought more headliner material but had to get black because Hobby Lobby was out of gray.

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I also reinstalled the shifter and the V6 cables.



The shift cable has to be routed over the intake manifold and then down to the shift lever.



The V6 shift cable bracket has to be tweaked. One bolt hole will work, but the second hole on the GTZ Getrag doesn't line up with the one on the bracket. Plus, the mounting holes for the slave cylinder aren't needed. I'll fix this later when I have the engine cradle out of the car.




The V6 select cable linkage requires a change to the collar on the lever. The collar needs to be rotated 180 degrees so the slot faces the rear of the car.




I think I can drive this pin out, turn the collar and reinstall, but it will have to wait until I have the cradle out of the car again.




As you can see, the pin that rides in the slot is on the side facing the back of the car. The slot on the GTZ transmission faces the front.


I had fabricated my own shift select bracket a few years ago when I found a V6 manual car in the salvage yard. You can see the difference in the pin location.

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