It lives. My favorite vicarious thread lives. Sweet.

 

after one round of upholstery cleaner (2 coats on the passenger seat, 1 on drivers) and two or three rounds of bleach...


the passenger seat (originally the dirtier one) is definitely improving, the drivers needs a bit more work though

edit: forgot pics

 

apparently the seats aren't the only things that need cleaning


if you're having a really difficult time, try some steam, it's pretty good at loosening the gunk

 

Honestly, the bleach with the plastic scrubber of the upholstery cleaner seems to be doing the trick, just taking time. My thumbs a bit sore though, so i probably wont hit it again til tomorrow. some of the steel belt on the tire cut my hand up a bit lol

 

no new seat pics yet, havent had a chance to scrub em again, but the grille is finally back in and finally... TURN SIGNALS. i bought these LED strips years ago but they have two wires and the original ones had three, and i guess that scared me away. with a clarksonian "how hard can it be" i cut the old ones off and just experimented til they worked and flashed. unfortunately, they lost the functionality of running lights, but whatever, I have foglights for tthat.

the strips aren't very bright, but they are there. and thats all the state of california asks for. i think.. lol

anywho pics and video: http://s164.photobucket.com/albums/u...-09-10_689.mp4

 

Nice updates. I bet those rims would scrap for more than $35 so pretty good deal.

 

my thoughts exactly. and they're lighter than the bullitts. ugly, but perfect for shennanigans

 

went to oreillys to pick up some itnerior dye, just to try it out


This used 2 cans of duplicolor red fabric/vinyl spray. there were a few fisheye areas on the vinyle that i guess i didn't clean as well as I thought, but overall, I'm liking how much red has been added. I am going to need many more cans of this though. I figure two more will cover the passenger seat, mostly, one more for touchups on each seat, its probably gonna take another can or two after that for the rear seats and a guy on a honda forum used 5 cans on his carpet. this red REALLY pops on the vinyl/leather. it took a few coats for it to really get up to par with the cloth, and its still not there yet, but imma see how it dries.

now to leave the heater on and window open, hopefully that'll cure it a bit faster

but anyway, the results of an hour or so putting the red back in porno red:

 

another slight update

Finally got a center console, of sorts. I don't know how this tray/container/whatever it is even got into my house, but i remember the moment i saw it, it was destined for greatness.

Reused the factory console mount bracket holess. gotta love (basically) free mods lol

 

Nice work Arin. Glad to see the II getting some TLC.

 

real updates this time.

got the bumper on, need to redrill the lower mount holes though, they were like 1/4" off but she doesnt get driven much right now, so I left it alone to tackle bigger projects like...

DROP SPINDLES. After a million freaking years (well, it feels like it at least) these danged things are finally on the car. dropped the nose a fair bit. The wheel well gap has definitely decreased and it was a PITA to get the jack out of there afterwards lol

anyhow, pichas

 

Lookin good

 

thanks!

Not a lot of time today, I've got class in a little while, but since the sun was shining, decided to go mock up the air dam now that I've actually got a bumper at least somewhat on there lol

its a bit wide on each side.. i may need to make a fender extension of some kind to hide the gap, or possibly bend the lower fender into a better shape

anywho

 

Taking shape bit by bit, but taking shape nonetheless

 

that's gonna look good. I think I see where you're going with this.

 

I cant wait to actually mount the danged thing. that, plus some wider wheels/tires out back and the fox GT sideskirts will look pretty excelllent

its fantastic working on this car again

 

I know what you mean. Its good to see you getting back into it

 

I am somewhat curious as to your side marker/bumper cover intentions, but yeah, that's gonna be sweet!

 

I'm basically running a gutted stock bumper thats been trimmed about 3". I still need to trim the excess that runs rearward after the headlight, again probablt 2-3" out of it. Then I need to grind away the curved up lip at the bottom so that It will finally mount flush, instead of pointed at the ground like it is now lol.

After that I'm gonna pick up some universal bracketry at the hardware store and hang that air dam. Once its centered and mounted I can see if its easier/better to make a new panel to hide that gap, or do what some of the more custom builds of IIs ive seen where they actually to metalwork to the bottom part of the fender to make it more flush. I also have to trim the inner lip at the opening in the center so that I can mount it a bit closer (hits the radiator right now)

probably gonna leave the marker lights there, but I've still got that whole can of VHT nightshade left, so the tails and all the markers are gonna get tinted as well.

Then maybe I can start thinking about a paint job again. I think I'll have one with clearcoat this time but somewhere between then and now I also want to rebuild the rear suspension and make my guages... work lol

so much to do lol

 

after a metric ***-ton of work today, one seat is finally in lol. they fought me every step of the way, and once i sat down and leaned back, i could tell the right side of it is broken somewhere inside lol. i suppose thats the real price of free stuff

that being said, it looks pretty sweet, and it is still better in terms of seat positioning than the original. I think i might just work in a temporary support for now, and then after i swap the other one in as the passenger seat, maybe find a racign bucket or something.