I am now on vacation for the next week, so the primary activity for today was autocrossing to test out the new wheels and tires. I am very, very pleased! Between the stiffer springs (575/425), konis set to full stiff front/rear and the wheels and tires, the car holds the pavement quite well. I was able to take turns much faster than before. It is going to take me some time to get used to this new level of grip!

60+ cars showed up for the autocross today. Lots of fast cars and very good drivers (I am not one of them!). The only downside was the temp - 48 degrees during most of my runs... I did meet a another PFFr from Pekin and he rode with me for all my runs.

The course:


The cars:


The only Fiero:


The Fiero in action:


The Fiero in action - bloopers clip:


Fun times!

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Been working on a few smaller projects...

Relocated the AR cruise module to the center tunnel area ahead of the shifter. I ended up building a newer/shorter harness and utilized the on/off switch on the stalk to enable/disable power to the relays. This way they only click when I press either the brake or clutch pedal when I have the cruise "on" vs. anytime the car is running.



Reworked the pedal bracket to give me more toe room and then painted everything:



Started fabbing up a bracket to hold my cell phone for GPS use above the aux gauges.







I also wanted to install one of the OEM sub enclosures with the Tang Band subwoofer. I don't like working with wood, so have started the process of making the end cap from 16 ga. Started with shearing some lengths, bending them around a pipe, and shearing/welding the pieces together to make a 5x5 ring.



Then I sheared the 5x5 cover and proceeded to do about 100 tack welds. They started out about 1" apart, then let the part cool. Do another round and let cool... long tedious process to end up with this:


Then a little grinder work to smooth the welds and cut/smooth the opening:






Painted:


Mounted with Sub:



To tune the enclosure for the sub, I trimmed 2" off the tube, lightly filled with poly foam, and sealed the metal flange to the sub housing with black RTV.


In the middle of these projects, I have been re-gluing some of the interior pieces:



Not a bad start for my first day of vacation!

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I got a little later start to today... wife purchased a new dining room table and it arrived last night. So this morning I had to breakdown all the styrofoam and cut all the cardboard to fit in the recycling bin.

I am still working on some speaker mods, but today was focused on the dash speakers. I had purchased one of these plates several years back and mounted some 5 1/4" speakers up front. As you can see the plastic warped with the interior heat in the summer.


The thickness of the spacer was placed the co-axial speaker too high for the covers to fit flush. So I wanted to make some new plates, but I wanted them to attach from the bottom side so there would be more material around the new speaker hole. Unlike the topside, the bottom side it flat with lots of room. So I sheared up some 16ga, located the critical holes and fabbed up some new plates.



Area of the dash that needs trimmed:


Both sides needed a little work with the heat gun to reshape the HVAC ductwork to clear the magnets:


Installed:


Painted with some foam weather stripping to seal the low spots:


Speaker installed again:


Stock speaker covers now fit!

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