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Sourmug AUG 03, 11:11 PM
Let's see what else...

I have installed the fly wheel, clutch and attached the transmission to the new engine! This is a BIG milestone for me as the clutch is what took my car off the road to begin with. I'm really excited!

Here is the clutch plate from my old 2.8 if your curious:


It had completely disintegrated, when I was passing someone on the highway of course, and naturally when the engine came out I suddenly had grad plans for the car So yes, this is a big event for me:



And TA DA!!!


And once again the was much rejoicing!!
Sourmug AUG 03, 11:15 PM
Oh and I also got my new wheels!!!



Oh yeah baby!

Nolan
Emc209i AUG 04, 01:52 AM
Fun reading this.... That Ceramic paint is going to come off. I give it a year.

I hope to have a shop like yours one day where I can work on mine.
RCR AUG 04, 06:37 AM
Ewww!! Nolan, I like your wheels. More info, please?

Bob
Sourmug AUG 04, 11:46 AM

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Originally posted by Emc209i:

Fun reading this.... That Ceramic paint is going to come off. I give it a year.

I hope to have a shop like yours one day where I can work on mine.



Yes is suspect that it will eventually come off but by then I may be ready for a turbo, we'll see. We purchased this house 4 years ago in part because it's on a pie shaped lot that allowed me to build a decent size garage. I don't know what it's like where you guys live but new houses up here are almost all built with attached garages on the front of the house and they are usually only about 20'X20' which is too small for what I wanted. I have never had a garage before and I think it would be hard now not to have one. I hope you end up with a nice one too someday, you'll enjoy it.

Nolan
Sourmug AUG 04, 11:51 AM

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Originally posted by RCR:

Ewww!! Nolan, I like your wheels. More info, please?

Bob



Hi Bob:

The wheels were purchased on E-Bay, here's the LINK

I should point out that they did not send all the accessories that were supposed to come and one of the wheels is mismatched. These are mistakes that would be easy to make and they are in contact with me about correcting this. I'll let you know how it works out. They do have a good feedback score so I'm sure it will be resolved "BUT" I wouldn't run off and buy a set just yet until this is resolved.

Nolan

[This message has been edited by Sourmug (edited 08-05-2007).]

Sourmug AUG 12, 08:08 PM
Just did some tinkering this weekend. First off I finished all the fiberglassing for the console. I made a pocket for the billet aluminum cup holder bezel that I purchased here it is in the finished pocket:

This is the pocket and cups:



And the paint:

Once the paint is fully dried I will sand off the over-spray on the flat armrest and start covering the armrest.
Sourmug AUG 12, 08:18 PM
And I installed some new rear speakers. Here's the plates that I purchased:

And how they compare with the speakers that were in the car:


As you can see, the magnet is considerably larger on the new speakers. In fact they don't fit into the existing mounting opening.
The stock plastic mounting plate sown in the next picture had to have the oval opening enlarged:

To do this I remove a porting with a cut-off wheel in the dremel and then used my spindle sander to enlarge the rest:

Here's a shot of the existing speaker opening:

This too had to be enlarged. The side towards the front of the car on both sides is right up against a structural member. You can see a large bolt hole to the right of the opening. this is for the upper seatbelt attachment. The is a little bit of sheet metal that can be bent with a hammer to make the opening larger but no much on that side. On the back side of the opening I cut out a crescent shaped portion to increase the opening:

Once that was done the two speakers were mounted:


That's it for now.
Nolan
Sourmug AUG 13, 07:57 PM
Just a quick note: As I indicated earlier, I received one mismatched wheel. The vendor has sent me a replacement wheel along with the missing hardware, just incase anyone was wondering about that particular E-Bay vendor.

Nolan
Fiero1Fan AUG 13, 08:15 PM
Nolan you are doing some fantastic work. The mod you needed to mount the rear speakers reminded me of what I had to do. Are you going to be adding woofers behind the seats or will your door speakers be enough?