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7-2-2013
7-2-2013
Well, Finally back to work and making some money after a 6 month lay-off. I have a few surprises in store (including a pretty awesome gift from my family).
So, I have been stripping out the interior for quite some time now. Trying to find a home for everything as it is removed has proven to be the most difficult task. These engineers were masters at automotive Tetris! So here are a few of the progress of tearing out (ie delicately removing) the interior:
Had to remove the AC connections to really get everything out of the way in the interior.
The reason for the full strip out: New carpet and battery relocation and some sound deadening (maybe)
Now for the gift from my family: Here are the seats before:
More of the old seats:
They weren't terrible, but they weren't super nice either. So when my family wanted to do something big for my birthday and to help with the project, my step-dad suggested redoing the seats at his favorite shop in town. Here are the results. They are not the cheapest place, but they are not the most expensive. I think they do quality work for a fair deal. I sure as heck didn't want to learn how to hog ring a seat cover on.
Here's the shop:
I am beyond happy with how they turned out! It's all leather with a synth suede insert. (I had pulled on it earlier and not pushed it back in, hence why it is bulged out in the pics) and I have not put the black plastics on them yet.
Some goodies arrived from Turblown and GoodfellaFD3S at IR Performance:
Installed the new pilot bearing even though IRP installs new ones with their engine builds. I had left it uncovered for so long that dust and dirt had gotten inside. So I felt that replacing it was cheap insurance. Here is the tool and method I used:
Went with the HD Pressure Plate and the Street/Strip Disk. I am not looking for crazy power levels. I am mainly focused on a broad usable curve.
A few goodies came in to match the fuel rails:
And not sure why, but it seems that there is oil weeping out around the tensioning bolts. Odd looking. But probably normal?
Went with the HD Pressure Plate and the Street/Strip Disk. I am not looking for crazy power levels. I am mainly focused on a broad usable curve.
A few goodies came in to match the fuel rails:
And not sure why, but it seems that there is oil weeping out around the tensioning bolts. Odd looking. But probably normal?
And every now and then, you'll get an added visitor when you order parts from other parts of the country. This little bugger was still alive and flew out of the packaged item and took a lazy stroll through our house until cornered and killed by a cat. I definitely gave Fritz a ration of crap for this one! :-)
And my shameless copycat shot attempt. I'll do a good copy later.
I ended up not going the route of the plug and play. I liked the support from Andy and Elliot so much that I decided to get the e1280s instead of saving up for a Pro-Efi setup again. (I sold off a lot of items to help out financially during a long lay-off) So I ended up getting the long flying lead harness and will be doing up a whole new harness.
I am not a fan of going high performance with on-the-edge tuning when the electronics is not fully sorted and reliable.
Here are a couple of pics. The e1280s is actually pretty tiny. I was very surprised at how small it is.
Here are some other goodies I ordered along with it.
Innovate LC1 and TC4: I really like the compatibility and the way the adaptronic and lc1 will communicate with each other.
My wife bought me this a while back: Sakebomb Nut Blocker. Can't wait to start blocking nuts! (Manlaw already covered on page 1)
And here are a couple of pics I found of the headrest pieces and embroidery up close before the seats went back together. Short Dog Embroidery here in Pasco, WA did the embroidery work.
And here are the fuel rails when I got them last year. Still finding pics. lol. This is the 4 injector rail for the xcessive LIM.
7-3-2013
Here is what I plan on using for most of the connections (unless they come with a connector that looks better or has some sort of reason to keep it.
Here was the progress pic of the 4 injector rail during its early stages. Quality from the start with FFE.
And here is something I had re-stitched from black to silver in hopes of matching the seats.
My goal for the interior is for it to look factory at a cursory glance. But once someone sits inside, I want them to start noticing the subtle details. I am hoping they don't clash with each other and are subtle enough to blend in except to the trained eyes.
Nice!
Posted by Diggymart on 5/8/20 @ 5:45:12 PM