IT-Purrrs
SHO Member
Now that ive got pretty much all my black interior parts lines up and ready to be cleaned, most of the interior is out of the car. Center console is mostly removed just have to cut the wires and splice in removable connecrs for easy detachment later. Pretty much all the interior panels on each sides of the car are down and the headliner is a couple bolts from removing. Also, the whole rear of the car is diss-assembled. No rear seat, no interior panels on the back, and the rear carpet under the rear window is out. After getting parts from about 3 different cars, the full black interior is just about ready.
My dad bought a '91 Plus SHO in a car auction for $100!. The body was quite rusty, but the interior looked really nice and well cared for, and first of all it was full black leather, which is extremly hard to find these days with these cars just getting higher and higher milage. We totally stripped the whole car and left it down to bare metal. We took the engine out, all the suspension, and all of the interior. Ive never helped to part out a car before, it was pretty fun, even for me missing out on some of it because i was very sick. We found over $6.00 of lost change in the car which was pretty funny, and also the interesting part, there were two unused sirenges right under the front of the headliner. That was definitly an interesting find! Maybe im getting a herawin addict's interior, but that makes it all the better right?
Ive got all the black door panels cleaned up and ready along with the headliner, just have to clean up the rear seat. Everything will be black in the rear for now, the door panels, and the side interior pieces. As soon as the front seats are good enough for my taste. They will be removed and im going to shampoo the carpet and put that in, and then i can finally add in my custom made black CincySHO floor mats in. Last step will be the dash when everything else is ready, and the gauge pod and the new gauges are installed.
Its amazing when i pulled these interior pieces out how sun dried and how much they lost their color from spending most of its life in Flordia, plus i just hit 155,000 body miles!
When the dash is ready im doing my climate control swap from the top of the dash to where the head unit is now, and im going to pick up a nice 7in LCD screen for to replece the climate control spot, and maybe a slim PS2 in my glove box.
The sounds mostly just got wired up tonight. I had a very knowelable friend of mine come over and we worked for two days because the ******* who wired up the car did everything wrong, and we pretty much had to re-do all the wires. For example, the front speakers were actually wired in by RCA's instead of actual speaker wire, which was pretty unbelieveable, and everything was just hacked up in the rear. I still have to complete the fabrication of the 6x9's into the rear of the car because they are not made for that size. Im not just going to take the easy way and cut the car, but since the panel above the speakers is raised up im going to create my own bracket with rubber inserts to make a nice 10-15 degree angle, so they point twards you.
My 10 speaker system with a total of over 1200watt max power is almost complete. I have a limp top of the line Alpine head unit in there with 60wx4 (single CD player doesnt work, and one pre-amp is blown). Then i have 2 MB Quart tweaders fabbed in the front dash, and two MD quart 6in midrange speakers in the doors replacing my stock JBL system. Then the 6x9's are Power Acouctiks 300w 4 ways. These are by far the best sounding 6x9's iver ever head, and ive tried many. They can handle so much power that i have a Power Acouctiks 4 channel 600w amp powering them. Then i have a 10in Alumapro full aluminum cone set in a really nice bandpass ported box, and thats powered by a 500 watt max Alpine 2 channel amp. The next things to add in are my 4 2.5 in tweaders that i am fabbing into the very front of the doors and the rear.
It sounds so beautiful right now even without the extra tweaders. Ive tested rock, rap, techno, and acoustic guitar on them and its extremly loud and very cripsy even at extremly high volumes. Very satisfied and excited.
My dad bought a '91 Plus SHO in a car auction for $100!. The body was quite rusty, but the interior looked really nice and well cared for, and first of all it was full black leather, which is extremly hard to find these days with these cars just getting higher and higher milage. We totally stripped the whole car and left it down to bare metal. We took the engine out, all the suspension, and all of the interior. Ive never helped to part out a car before, it was pretty fun, even for me missing out on some of it because i was very sick. We found over $6.00 of lost change in the car which was pretty funny, and also the interesting part, there were two unused sirenges right under the front of the headliner. That was definitly an interesting find! Maybe im getting a herawin addict's interior, but that makes it all the better right?
Ive got all the black door panels cleaned up and ready along with the headliner, just have to clean up the rear seat. Everything will be black in the rear for now, the door panels, and the side interior pieces. As soon as the front seats are good enough for my taste. They will be removed and im going to shampoo the carpet and put that in, and then i can finally add in my custom made black CincySHO floor mats in. Last step will be the dash when everything else is ready, and the gauge pod and the new gauges are installed.
Its amazing when i pulled these interior pieces out how sun dried and how much they lost their color from spending most of its life in Flordia, plus i just hit 155,000 body miles!
When the dash is ready im doing my climate control swap from the top of the dash to where the head unit is now, and im going to pick up a nice 7in LCD screen for to replece the climate control spot, and maybe a slim PS2 in my glove box.
The sounds mostly just got wired up tonight. I had a very knowelable friend of mine come over and we worked for two days because the ******* who wired up the car did everything wrong, and we pretty much had to re-do all the wires. For example, the front speakers were actually wired in by RCA's instead of actual speaker wire, which was pretty unbelieveable, and everything was just hacked up in the rear. I still have to complete the fabrication of the 6x9's into the rear of the car because they are not made for that size. Im not just going to take the easy way and cut the car, but since the panel above the speakers is raised up im going to create my own bracket with rubber inserts to make a nice 10-15 degree angle, so they point twards you.
My 10 speaker system with a total of over 1200watt max power is almost complete. I have a limp top of the line Alpine head unit in there with 60wx4 (single CD player doesnt work, and one pre-amp is blown). Then i have 2 MB Quart tweaders fabbed in the front dash, and two MD quart 6in midrange speakers in the doors replacing my stock JBL system. Then the 6x9's are Power Acouctiks 300w 4 ways. These are by far the best sounding 6x9's iver ever head, and ive tried many. They can handle so much power that i have a Power Acouctiks 4 channel 600w amp powering them. Then i have a 10in Alumapro full aluminum cone set in a really nice bandpass ported box, and thats powered by a 500 watt max Alpine 2 channel amp. The next things to add in are my 4 2.5 in tweaders that i am fabbing into the very front of the doors and the rear.
It sounds so beautiful right now even without the extra tweaders. Ive tested rock, rap, techno, and acoustic guitar on them and its extremly loud and very cripsy even at extremly high volumes. Very satisfied and excited.
Thanks in advance.
