Resurrecting a 144k FD by Fd3BOOST

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So this past week I started in on the interior. The plan in short, replace the 93 plastics with 94 plastics. Re-upholster the res, clean the carpet and get rid of evidence of Vintage Red paint. Since this is a street car I'm going to dynomat this joker too for the bitching iPad mini & sound system I'm going to install to eventually. 

So here she is with the seats out. 

Finally found something to use an iPhone panoramic picture for.

I did pretty good getting all of this **** off the car. I was a little hasty and cracked my drivers side A pillar and totally destroyed the hood taking it out. I didn't feel too bad though since I could tell it was already removed before and had some damage with the tabs. No a big deal though since I am going to get some different plastic anyhow, With a little help from my friends..

I pulled the carpet out last. I found two quarters so it wasn't all work.

It was pretty nasty when I got it out. This is even after I spent all that time cleaning it the day I drove it home. Amazing how dirty carpet can get parked in the garage. 

Hauled it to the local $5 wash and pinned it to the outside matt hangers and went to town with some high pressure wash and high pressure rinse. Someone died in the rear passenger seat area. I must have cleaned a quart of some dark red crap from that corner of the carper. 

Next was to reseal the inside with some low sheen black. I kept this modestly pedestrian, I painted around the parts as best I could without removed any extra **** that was in the way. No need to get stupid on this restore.... 

Then started rolling in dynomat and insulted the tunnel with some DEI. 

Not sure I'll appreciate this as much in the winter. But most definitely will around Memorial day weekend. I'm not sure how well this will work. Right off the bat, I still hope to get the USDM tranny panel from Goodfella. This JDM one has the arm rest spot on the wrong side. I'm not sure the front of the tunnel will match up, so I'll be the guinea pig on this. Only cost me a couple hundred bucks anyway.

Tomorrow, I'm dropping these worn dogs off with Austin here in Maryland to re-upholster then with in Suede. The headliner, seats, A pillars and this Stubby JDM Tunnel cover I just scored are all being done in some Ala-someshit high end suede. Should be sweet! 

JDM piece I scored a few days ago..

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The seats are going to look badass too, Austin has a diamond stitched pattern for the inserts that he did on his car and it looks awesome in person.

Here is a set he did for another local guy who has a CW fd. These ones are done in red vinyl.
I'm going with black alcantara suede.