Also, I made way more progress on my car than I thought I would in the past few weeks. Spent some late nights out in the garage. Aiming to test drive this weekend. I'll start looking for a good bumper sticker to send you
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2mAn What the hell. I still haven't gotten mine lol.
Also, I made way more progress on my car than I thought I would in the past few weeks. Spent some late nights out in the garage. Aiming to test drive this weekend. I'll start looking for a good bumper sticker to send you
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What about this one?
then this one right underneath it... so you don't have dudes blowing you kisses on the freeway
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Update # idk I lost count already...
started stripping down the interior of the donor car to get ready to swap over everything. got the dashboard pulled and holy fucking shit. whatever genius owned this car in the past absolutely hacked the wiring back there. So many bundles of SHIT spliced into the factory harnesss (plural), RANDOM ass splices, and some bulkhead connectors were depinned with added wires coming out of them??? who ever owned this in the past must of been smokin and experimenting with shit cuz wtf... like cmon save the rok smoking for the volvo owners.
so I decided to swap the wiring, since the wiring from the crashed car isnt fucked. gunna be a lot more work but I cannot in good conscience leave whats in there.
Anyways, the project is still moving... slowly. My circumstances may not be ideal, but im still showing up for it and It'll all be worth it in the end.
JasonWilson48 will most certainly be beating me on this one. that means I get to suffer the bumper sticker of doom and despair. Im fine with something queer as long as its funny, but All I ask is plz nothing queer that could potentially be interpreted as something negative. Sorry for being slightly woke, I hope that doesn't make me a buzzkill LOL
straight ally was pretty hilarious btw, it'd be even funnier of it was in the charlie xcx brat font lmaooo
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Yeah... I realized after I sent that, it might come across wrong. I fully support LGBTQ+ community, so I shouldn't be joking about it on a forum with people who don't know my actual intentions. I'll definitely go a different route with the bumper sticker.
Also... don't let anyone call you "woke" in a bad way. You're just being a good person, and being accepting of all people. It's the way people should act.
On a non-serious note... what is going on with those nails brother?!? Do you play guitar or something? If not, clip those claws!
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bunch of waffles in hereSimon
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-1966 Lotus Elan
-1986 German Car
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sorry for the silence yall, don't worry our talk about wokeness didn't scare me off lol. But thanks, JasonWilson48, and everyone else, you get it and you understand :) ANWAYS.. FUCK a chassis swap is not for the weak. working on pulling the entire chassis harness rn, so I can swap the non fucked up one from my first car. There's only 2 wires on the whole thing that have been cut/depinned. In the grand scheme of things its not much and a cut and splice would be a fix but I want to do the right fix. Im just slowly chipping away at it, the school semester is speeding up too so I've had to sacrifice a few weekends.
I'm starting to feel like I can't see the finish line, but I think im just too eager to gettiing it done. I know I'll get there, i just hate having to be patient... Don't we all?Comment
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Also that comment about my nails LMMMAOOOOOOOO. That shit had me dying. No, I do not play guitar... Sometimes I just dont really care and see how long and repulsive I can let them get hahahah. Everyone gives me shit for it, I know its fowl but something about it, free will I guess XD Best part is, for work im a line cook, dont come eating here lol. But for the record, I have since cut them and they are mainting an acceptable length... for nowComment
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Having an uncut harness is a good thing...
-sincerely a dude who has a car with a pretty hacked harness...Simon
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-1966 Lotus Elan
-1986 German Car
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I'm back from the dead, got a couple updates. Slow progress as usual,
BUT school semester ends in 3 weeks sooooooo once thats over I can begin devoting my life to this car and I can really make some decent progress
Also, I learned how to use Flickr so I can hopefully upload photos easier
as of now heres where I am
More or less finished stripping down the interior of the new car, carpet pulled, and Fully pulling the hacked harness now
IMG_9035 by Max Max Rodriguez, on Flickr
IMG_9039 by Max Max Rodriguez, on Flickr
Got the exhaust, drive shaft, and heat shields removed in order to drop the gas tank to finish pulling the harness, plus gas tank on the crashed car is a new unit, not original like this one is.
IMG_9222 by Max Max Rodriguez, on Flickr
IMG_9223 by Max Max Rodriguez, on Flickr
IMG_9221 by Max Max Rodriguez, on Flickr
pulled the sun roof on the donor car and was greeted with some rust
The sunroof panel was fully collapsed due to being rusted out. Previous owner WEGDED A BOLT and a huuuge ball of TINFOIL to keep it held in place and not fallen in. Some insane craftsmanship if you ask me.
Consequently the sunroof section of the chassis is rusted out. Passenger side drain has FULLY rotted away.
Unfortunatelt for me keeping the sunroof is non negotialble, I love that sunroof. So its gunna have to get repaired somehow. Thoughts? Is this too impossible to weld? Harvest it off the Crashed car? All input is appreciated :)
Untitled by Max Max Rodriguez, on Flickr
IMG_9037 by Max Max Rodriguez, on Flickr
IMG_9038 by Max Max Rodriguez, on Flickr
Admittedly, there is a lot of dust type of dirt that I did not bother to take a pic of after wiping clean.
I sold the gauge cluster and steering wheel from the new car, so I recouped a little money there too
As of now that's unfortunely all the updates I've got
Next steps,
repeat all of this on the crashed car -
finsih pulling/swapping harnesses
drop exhause, heat sheilds, driveshaft,
drop/swap fuel tank
work on getting interior back together
then go from there
Also I face the wrath of JasonWilson48 's bumper sticker of choice. TO BE HONEST nowhere near as bad as I was expecting
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admire the perseverance.Comment
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