Hello! White late model coupe from the bay

[tak7]

Your car is very clean, good work!
Not a huge fan of the banner or grill, but who cares.

[Toodaloo]

What I've done in the past few days.
Removed the kidney grills, sanded off the paint, and used some SEM trim paint on them! Even though they're cracked, it looks much better than before.




Cleaned the door sills and door jams. It was so dirty before, looked pitch black!



Then yesterday I spent the day doing some touchups. Washed the car and removed the wheels to clean away all the break dust. I start wish spraying down the wheels and soak them with wheel cleaner or soapy water. Then, I generally use a scrub brush on the inner barrels and tire sidewalls, toothbrush for the spokes, and microfiber cloth for the lips. Then finish it off with some tire shine foam and wipe away all the excess that gets on the lips with the cloth.
Kind of a pain in the ass considering you have to get in between every spoke with the toothbrush so you really have to invest your time into it, but SO worth it in the end.


While I was doing this and had the wheels off the car, I multitasked and took care of my rocker panels and rear valence. Over time they were looking pretty ugly and worn out. (White paint was poking through). It didn't look clean, so I needed to take care of it! Bought two cans of SEM ruberised undercoating a few months back from another member who had done the same, and let me tell you, I love this stuff! It coats very well and has a satisfying spraying feeling. The texture is nice for these parts of the car since they're already textured and it dries VERY quickly. Like. Half an hour quick.
I masked off the lines where I wanted it to end, and used plastic bags to prevent overspray since I didn't have enough newspaper. Dealing with those in the wind was annoying...



Laid down 2 coats after my adhesion coat (only took me one can!) and pulled off the mask.



Here's what she looked like all back together. So much better with the fresh rockers and valence! And clean wheels :)

[animal]

dude if you want a renown wheel - just holler! renownusa@gmail.com - hit me up! Always wanna take care of my locals with cars as clean as yours!

Nice work saving such a nice coupe!

[Toodaloo]

Your car is looking great... Time to start working on mine soon I think.

Looks nice. I too came from a subaru, still have a suby but daily my e30. Going to steal a couple of ideas from your car. Nice work

Looking good Andrei!


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Thanks everyone! I ditched the mono wiper, I got tired of having to answer people's questions about it! Maybe once I get a real one my explanation will be far more cool!
Also readjusted my seat since I needed to be a bit further away. Clutch knee kept hitting the steering wheel.

[Eufonik]

Looking good Andrei!


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[d_elson0]

Looks nice. I too came from a subaru, still have a suby but daily my e30. Going to steal a couple of ideas from your car. Nice work

[shadowbethesda]

Your car is looking great... Time to start working on mine soon I think.

[Toodaloo]

those seats are so nice!

Thanks! I LOVE them!

[YAN-3]

those seats are so nice!

[Toodaloo]

Hello! White late model coupe from the bay

Sorry for being out of touch guys, I've been pretty busy with an internship and school! I've been accepted into A few universities including my number one choice so I'm pretty excited for the future!



Sorry for any autocorrect issues and iphone pics, bare with me I'm posting from mobile since that's easier than send myself all the images, re-sizing them, and posting them. (Lol lazy)



Recently I've done quite a bit though. I FINALLY GOT MY SEATS!!!







3 whole months of waiting. I purchased the massive lee brackets about a month ago and the install was. Well. A little tougher than I was hoping for, but the quality is amazing. I opted for adapters for the passenger side to retain the sliders, while for the driver side I went with a floor mount for that extra inch or two of low needed to fit my 6'2 body and my big ass head lol. (Not really that big I just like a low seating position) haha!

First problem was that the floor mount holes were slightly too close together, (redneck voice) or is that them bee em dublew engineers made their damn seat bolts wrong so that them brackets don't fit?

Anyway, 2 minutes with a dremel and that problem was fixed.











Then I tore the sliders off of the old passenger seat. And figured out where all the bolts went.

I bolted the passenger seat in and found that it was off by quite a bit. Pulled out the seat and played with all the washers I had with no luck. I then retried and loosened all the bolts to do a loose fit. It worked! But I wasn't able to get to all of the bolts. So the seat came out again. They time I torqued everything except the seat and it fit perfectly! Tightening the seat down was a major paint in the butt, but I did it!

As for the driver side I ran into the issue that the bolts for the brackets and the floor mounts were in the exact same spot for my seating position. So I had to do the same process but this time hold the Seet half way off the carpet and bolt in the floor bolts before I set it down all the way. Getting to the seat bolts (that hold the seat to the rails) was an absolute joke. My hands almost didn't even fit under the seat it's so low, but with the help of a ratcheting box wrench I was able to finally get it in. Over all since the time I open the box and vacuumed the seats till the test drive, it took 5 hours or so. Way way way too long for a seat install. I feel like an idiot! Now that I've been driving it for a little while I'm noticing that I need to be siting further back in the driver seat. So I'll probably spend another hour readjusting that :(. Anyway they're in and super comfortable! I was worrying about them being too tight buy I fit in pretty well! If I could change anything I would maybe slightly widen the shouler area, but other than that they're perfect! I'm hoping to have them professionally cleaned in the next few weeks.







I still have been looking to fix that leak of mine to prevent the rear footwell from soaking up, so I went ahead and ordered a new door deal (replica found under the group buy thread for $80! Better than $300 for oem! The install was fairly easy, but it took a toll on my hand removing the door sill. I seriously don't even know how that happened -__-.























Good as new!



Later I found that it wasn't the actual answer to my problem, but may have been a contributing factor. I washed the car that night to head out to meet on the bay the next day and found water inside the seal on the bottom.

What could it be? Hmm well what's in between my door and the sill, the vapor seal of course! I pulled the door panel to find that it in fact had a bunch of loose openings on the bottom from when the previous owner rebuilt the passenger door lock.







Some new plastic and silicone sealant later I fixed that problem :).







Recently I decided to make my trunk super euro and do the hardwood floors, so I got out some 3 ply birch that I had from my old skateboard building days and traced the floor carpet out as a base for the hardwood. Temporarily driving around with that in my trunk until I find some flooring!











Also just today, I purchased a new sub and rear speakers! I found that I need to replace the rear coaxials but have the wiring for the tweeters and the front mids are new. Got the amp from my friend David for a steal of a price and now I'm bumpin'! I still need the front tweeters, and to install my old deck from the subaru, but it already sounds SO much better.











Temporary sub and amp wiring until I get my trunk situated.







By now my update is being short and consice, sorry getting tired of typing all of this from my phone :/



Found a new plug that fits and looks better for the antenna!







Last but not least, Lower seat means more sun in my eyes, so I made a banner from some white vinyl. It's actually a little off since I was doing it myself on a windy day, so I'll have to redo it once I have some time and a buddy can help me. (Ignore the ricer single windshield wiper. I wanna be a dtm cool kid but cant see spending 300 for the mono wiper kit when it doesn't rain in California anyway haha!







She's getting there :)

[sayed ali]

Nice bro

[Toodaloo]

Thanks guys!!!

[Toodaloo]

Went out to cars and coffee SF with some buddies!

It was awesome to see some cars and I got some ideas. I want an mtech 2 lower valence with my original bumper, and am now debating between a renown wheel or a suede small diameter mtech 2 wheel. If anyone has either of these! (Any color, replica or the real deal, and as for the wheel it can be worn since I'll have it rewrapped.

Later I got home and my turner chip came in the mail. Installed it and noticed some decent gains from the butt dyno. Definitely feel more mid-range torque and more power.
Removing the glovebox, ecu cover, and ecu



Opening it up and installing the chip!

[Blackout]

Nice progress. keep up the good pace.

[marc55]

Looking great.