S52 finally!

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Black plastics cleaned & ready. Waiting for blue sun visors & a header panel that goes under the sunvisors across the inside top of the windshield.

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Got the 90 degree hose, cut it down & got it pretty well together.

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It has begun.....



Ran the remote turn on for the sub amp & RCAs to the trunk.

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Slowly disassembling the interior, all that remains are passenger under dash, dash & carpet.



Proof of concept on the amp complete.

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Turned out the heater core needs to come out to "properly" r&r the rug. No.

Exhausted, need to figure out the best way to cut the "new" carpet to get it in.






Had to pull, push, pry & cut the rug out, these were the tools.

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M Roadster hard rubber differential bushing.

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Can’t wait to see it with the new interior!

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This literally kept me up last night worrying that I would not get it in/get the wires where they needed to be.

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This was a hassle.

As I need to run the O2 wire from the motor to the gauge for my PSB-1 I looked for a passthrough, finding nothing, I searched for 20+ minutes, closest I came was a thread on Bimmerforums with derision over asking where the firewall was.

I am pretty sure had my interior not been gutted I would not have found this, passenger (right) side (US car) it exits behind the aux air pump.

I also need to run 2 wires to get the oil & water temp data to the gauges.

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Dash is in, I was waiting for bulbs that the entire center console has to be disassembled to r&r that just came so progress will resume.

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Rear plastics are in.

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Focals for the rear are in.

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This is going to be quite a different car from what you bought!

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Waiting for NYE dinner, I mostly did wiring today, ready to install the center console & gauges tomorrow!

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Weekend progress, wiring was not fun & caused delays.