Procrastinated Progression Thread :) by FosgateLife

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10-19-2014

10-22-2014

Currently my "to do list"

All of it will be happening shortly!!

Measure and cut for custom "wood" trunk setup WITH COMPARMENT FOR TOOLS 

Redo my side skirts

Cold air intake setup

Cut a coul off rear springs

Re-Plastidip letters on trunk

Fix trunk light.

Fix and relocate amplifier wiring

Take out seats and clean under and around rails

Paint rear interior door handles grey to match fronts.

Paint cupholders and other trim

Paint engine components 

Go and see how much for leather reupholstered with "Volvo" stamp in front seats 

Upgrades:

Sway bar bushings

Anti lift bushings

**currently working with ARD on custom E85 map for 2.4i's**

Im forgetting stuff but those are things currently on my mind . Enjoy!

10-23-2014

Re routed and mounted the amplifier, LOC , and all the wires to the spare tire well.

Its ready to be layed out for the base of the wood floor!

11-4-2014

Yeah not for me anyways lol. Like it but cant get rid of this one.

I finshed my ECU bracket and it is installed. Not giving the details until im done fully. But it was free and took 10 minutes! it's just not as pretty 

Mods are coming!!!!!

Coilovers are coming next month 

Im also gonna get a nice welder !

Getting the hood and fender repainted

Getting the seats custom upholstered

Then here's the awesome part.... I'm puttin a full clear bra. on the car! No more damage to my near perfect paint job!

So I decided to put in my longer wheels studs on my front side today…. What should have taken 45 minutes took 4 hours!

I didn’t have the proper lug bolt and made a huge mess for myself.

I also wasn’t expecting that I'd have to grind down the main assembly to get the old studs out so that set me back too.

Long story short, I hammered all of them out and then decided to not grind the metal needed on the assembly. Found out I had the wrong lug bolt. The one I used had no threads on the end and I didn’t see that… Then used an air drill to get the bolt on and fused the stud with the lug bolt at the base… So I had to hammer it as much as possible and use a hand saw to cut the bolt in half and hammer it the rest of the way through. Then once that was fixed it was super easy. Lol.

Do NOT attempt this if you don’t have a grinder!! I warn you!

For anyone wondering, the bolt is a 12x1.5 made my dorman at advanced auto parts ( the lug bolt)

Hammered out

Knew I F'd up… LOL

You can see the part you have to grind out on the top!

I'm so dumb sometimes haha.

Had to break out the hand saw

Look what I did good lord haha.

Finally got them in! You have to grind out the front side of the whole metal piece that holds the strut and all that in order to get the studs out without taking the assembly out.

Dirty dirtiness

Im doing the right side on Thursday. I'm finally gonna put on the 10mm spacers up front that I've had forever lol