Giving a 405 Sport Wagon another chance

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Headliner is done but I did not have a chance to pick it up :-(

I had to repaint A and B pillars to gray to mach the rest of interior,all MI16 that I have seen had light white-gray pillars regardless the color of the seats.

6-5-2014

Picked up headliner from upholstery shop but I was not abled to fully finish it till I get seat belts from Marc. I did bolt up 89 seat belt adjustets to B pillars and all threaded holes were present.

I end up making gaskets for roof rack as old ones rooted. Also I mounted powder coated roof racks.

6-6-2014

Scrubbed some of the parts today from 91 engine that will go in to wagon. Tomorrow will be 104*F so it will be fun scrubbing the engine :-(

Headliner is all done now,once I get the seat belts done I'll take photos with my camera. Interior turned out nice.

Yes they applied new fabric on original headliner,now the fabric was damaged really bad from sun and water so I picked out the material that was used in European cars. From what I can tell it is very close to original. It is high quality head liner,it has thin amount of foam on back of the fabric.

I used 3mm thick rubber pice that I found at work. End up working better then expected but by the time car is ready for paint I'll have new or good used set from Europe.

6-13-2014

I got engine and transmission cleaned up. It took me about 10 hours but it was worth it. Once again I used Purple Power and tooth brush.

Here are few pictures with what I stared and how it end up.

This Saturday I'll work on resealing the engine and powder coated parts should come in by next Friday.

6-15-2014

Installed MI16 front bumper,fog lights and better headlights. I also removed cruise control and engine bay fuse box for better look.

6-17-2014

Seat belts came in. Can't wait to have normal seat belts,by late afternoon seat belt swap should be done.

And DONE :-) now I have normal seatbelts :-)))

I'll update pictures about conversion later.