Archive for December, 2007

Cleaning a couple of parts

Monday, December 31st, 2007

Penny (my wife), Sebastian (my son) and I are spending New Years Eve with my parents this year, and as such, I get to do a little work on the car again (it’s been a good week). It was quite a hot day, so I only cleaned up a couple of things.
I started out [...]

The Dash is in.

Saturday, December 29th, 2007

View more…The plan for today was to get the dash into the car. Before we could do this though, we had to get the tunnel trim in along with the ducts in the dash. We were worried that installing the tunnel trim would be tricky as it is quite long and the contact [...]

Installing the vinyls

Thursday, December 27th, 2007

View more…We continued work on the tunnel insulation today, cutting the rear section out of a new roll of the double-fluff-with-bitumen insulation. To stick it onto the tunnel, we used spray on contact adhesive. The glue sprayed on quite easily and once it went tacky, we placed and thumped the insulation into place. [...]

Floor and Firewall coverings

Saturday, December 15th, 2007

View more…As we had to do some repair work to the floor (and had to make sure there was no hidden rust), I had removed the bitumen lining on the inside of the car. Today, we re-applied new sheets of bitumen to reinforce the floor and to help with the sound proofing. Even [...]

Side Windows Are In!

Saturday, December 8th, 2007

View more…Today Dad and I continued to focus on getting the side windows in. Last weekend we had completed getting the door windows in, along with the lock mechanisms. We also took the rear quarter windows apart and cleaned up all of the components. Today, we put the quarter windows together again [...]