JohnWPB 1986 GT Fastback worklog (Page 24/71)
JohnWPB MAR 11, 02:45 AM
Still working on all the little stuff! I painted the shifter surround, as I just didn't like that silver plastic look. I did all of the other face plates as well, around the A/C, gauge cluster, Aux gauges ect. They came out fairly decent:



Next was the ash trays. They were rusted and pitted beyond belief. I sanded and use a Dremel wire wheel as best I could. Then I hit it with rusty metal primer, a thin coat. I did this about 6 times to build up a nice thickness that seemed to hide all the pitting and such. Sprayed it with some adhesive promoter, and topped it off with some silver metallic paint. I have never been a fan of the stuff, as it never seems to turn out the way you would want. This was the one exception I think, as they really turned out nice! Not worried about paint melting or burning, as I quit smoking 3 years ago They are just for show really.

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2.5 MAR 11, 08:44 AM

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You know what might look good is a thin pin stripe of the blue around the outside edge of the shifter surround, kind of like the blue stitching is a thin line. leaving the rest of that area black. Just that little recessed outline edge maybe? Would kind of match the piping on your seats too.

Are you lighting up your shiftter indicators and dash blue?

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JohnWPB MAR 11, 09:31 AM
I had actually thought about doing that, or maybe the ash tray handles in blue as some sort of tie in. As for the dash and shift indicator lights... but of course!

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2.5 MAR 11, 10:32 AM

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Originally posted by JohnWPB:

I had actually thought about doing that, or maybe the ash tray handles in blue as some sort of tie in. As for the dash and shift indicator lights... but of course!




fierogtlt1 MAR 11, 02:46 PM
Great job on the shifter plate.I think the blue outer pinstripe would look awesome IMO.
JohnWPB MAR 11, 11:24 PM

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Originally posted by 2.5:
You know what might look good is a thin pin stripe of the blue around the outside edge of the shifter surround, kind of like the blue stitching is a thin line. leaving the rest of that area black. Just that little recessed outline edge maybe? Would kind of match the piping on your seats too.



I totally agree with that, and in concept it sounds great. Well..... in reality, I tried to it, with no success. It is such a THIN area around the edge, around an 1/8th of an inch or so. I tried masking the area off many many times, and just could not lay the tape down and keep it perfectly 1/8th of an inch end to end. The lip is not deep enough that I could put the tape vertically either... I tried.

So, I went with my original thought, and just made the handle / ridge of the ask tray doors blue instead. I am happy with the way the look came out. Again, just a subtle bit of blue to tie in with all the rest of the interior.

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JohnWPB MAR 23, 06:05 PM
Progress... I found out today that my Fiero was retarded.... yes, literally. Joey came over and helped me today, and determined that it was 17 degrees retarded to be exact. So he watched the laptop, and I turned the distributor till we got it at 10 degrees retarded. That way when the ALDL cable is disconnected, and it reverts to 10 degrees, it theoretically should be in perfect time.

After Joey left, I bolted the drivers seat in, and installed the instrument cluster to keep an eye on things. It ran great, and I got to take it out for it's first real drive today! There are still a LOT of little issues, but it is coming together!

It's looking more and more like this thing may make it to Daytona this upcoming weekend!

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JohnWPB MAR 24, 08:40 PM
When everyone was over here to help me get my car ready for Daytona this year, we found that the quarter windows I have appear to be too short. Chuck went over and compared them to his quarter windows and said that they were way smaller than the ones on his car. I contact Chris Cook about the windows, saying the appeared to be too small. He asked for pictures of the windows. I put a video up in YouTube instead for him to get a good look at trying to position them:



He contacted me back and said the video does not show much, and that the gap appears to be less than 1/2 inch, and that is normal. What does anyone else thing when looking at the video?
Danyel MAR 24, 09:28 PM
Judging from my OEM glass the ones you received yours are definitely way too short....... there is NOT half an inch of space.....





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fierogtlt1 MAR 25, 12:36 AM
Did you paint your shift selector blue to match the gauge needles?