What a rollercoaster it's been since the last update--this gon' be a long one.
Had a lot of downtime at work and I figured I'd finally get around to cleaning up the back glass finish molding. The vinyl was insanely stubborn.
For awhile, I used this generic shelf to mount my amp on. The seat back was able to close, but not very comfortably.
Did some more thinking and ended up using rivnuts and a HDPE board for the next version.
Not bad, but I may reposition everything a little higher and find better matching carpet fabric.
Also took this time to upgrade from the generic Amazon install kit I first bought to some 4ga OFC:
The last time the exhaust got some attention was years ago, and a little bit of metal polish made a lot of my friends think I got a new exhaust, lol
So far, that's been 3 ups? Here's a down:
Uh oh.
But I'm thankful for my coworkers that noticed a DIFFERENT coolant leak under my car when my car was parked at work, haha.
Opted for a new OEM water pump since it hasn't been discontinued yet.
I finally sank my teeth into moving the exhaust cutout.
Pretty bad air bubbles since my mold wasn't the most stable when I was laying up, but it's managable.
This had to be done in two parts because the valance lost so much structural integrity when I cut everything out.
I drilled in some paint sticks to hold the shape until I had more of the structure recreated.
With the face done, I put it back onto the car to make some notes of the exhaust's positioning.
Man. If I had a turndown exhaust tip, this would look pretty cool, haha
Continued with filling in the rest of what I cut out.
Then I had curiosity get the best of me and threw on the other bumper I had:
After some major eyeballing and measuring off the car:
Bingo!
Compared to the original placement:
Lastly, I hope I've dealt with the last of my coolant leak gremlins: the heater core.
In goes a Rock Auto heater core:
In hindsight, I wish I did more planning and bought metal replacement inlet/outlet so I never have to endure this again, lmao
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