"ABT" Steel Lady (56k warning) (Page 20/28)
Fiero1Fan MAY 12, 06:22 PM
Steelers Fans rule the world! Some people call us the Steelers Nation I call us the Steelers Empire!!
Big Ben for Emperor!!!!!! LOL
YELLOWFIERO88 MAY 13, 12:13 AM
Its saturday already, you got those 6 x 9's installed yet
Looking great. I like your attention to the details. It seems like alot of people over look those details when they build a car.

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Fiero1Fan MAY 13, 03:56 AM
Yellowfiero88: You're real funny!!!!!!!! A man has to sleep sometime. Yes I will be doing it today.
As for paying attention to details. I was raised that when you do something do it right or don't do it at all.
YELLOWFIERO88 MAY 13, 09:23 AM
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Sometimes I think those morals are gone today. I have seen to many cars and bought to many cars that the owners dont agree with that statement. I wonder if their moto was "why do it right when I can do it again?" LOL!!

As for sleep, its over rated. We can do that after our time on earth
whadeduck MAY 13, 05:59 PM
I always tell people, when I hear the "you can sleep when you're dead" thing, you're right, and at the rate I'm going, that should be sometime tomorrow. lol

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'88 Ferrario

Fiero1Fan MAY 15, 02:27 PM
Well I didn't get as far as I wanted to on Saturday. I removed and disassembled the window power motors and mechanism. The forward and downward pointing pw motor is in the way of my 6x9 speaker install. So I decided to move the motor upward. I got it all apart, did some trimming on the housing and then got a friend of mine to weld them back together. My thanks to Rickady88GT for the How To on this.


Rickady88GT's How To also showed how he moved the bumpstop that is located on the front lower end of the window. I had problems with the bracket he used. I couldn't get the bracket to clear the middle brace in the door and still catch on the upper lip. So I came up with my own idea. I'll post pix tomorrow on what I have done.
Fiero1Fan MAY 20, 04:58 PM
Well I finally got some more stuff done today.
First off I got the bump stop issue finished. I had problems getting the bracket like Rickady88GT made to clear the middle door brace and still catch on the upper door brace. So here is what I did. I used a 6.5 x 30mm bolt with washers and self locking nuts in place of the bracket.


I then cut off the rest of the bolt until it would pass by the middle door brace.


I then cut a small tab into the upper brace and bent it back towards the window.
The nuts now hit the tab and act as the front window bump stop.


Next I'll pickup some heat shrinkable tubing to cover the nuts so I don't have a metal hitting metal sound when I roll up the window.

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Fiero1Fan MAY 20, 05:01 PM
Then I installed the pw motors back in the doors.
Here is what they look like after the control arm has been repossitioned upward.



As I said above, there is enough room now in the doors to fit a very nice set of 8" speakers!!

Thanks again to Rickady88GT for the How To.

[This message has been edited by Fiero1Fan (edited 05-20-2006).]

Fiero1Fan MAY 29, 04:22 PM
Here is the up to date info.
I now have the 6x9 holes cut and the speaker wires run into the cabin.



Here I have the stereo connector installed. Was a bit of work soldering all the connections but I had to because the original connector was destroyed.


Here is a pic of the original connector. I don't understand why people do this instead of buy or making an adapter.


I now have a question. This brown wire was loose and I have no idea where it belongs. Anyone know?
Fiero1Fan MAY 29, 04:38 PM
The other thing that now have done is the installation of a power mirror from Fieroeddie. This thing has a lot of features. UV Sensor, Interior and exterior temp sensors, compass and auto-dimming.
The mirror connected up and mounted.


UV Sensor mounted to washer jet bracket.

I ran the cables throught the rubber gromet that holds the Hood release cable.