My Hoopte30 Project Attempt #6 - the painless way to earn cash back every day

[AWDBOB]

I got the rear side marker pigtails cut in from a good car, and installed a new battery cable to replaced the one that was in the car, that had three splices in it on the ECU power wire.

I have some splicing to do on the front of the car and will finally be ready to hook a battery up and start to do some testing.

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The reason for the slow progress. Matt@EDC and I have been turning this:

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Into this:

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[Matt@EDC]

Aladdins cave right there! Fun times seeing the transformation. And can’t wait to see the cars out and about. Good work grafting, Mr BOB

[firstE30]

You selling any of the z3 racks?

[AWDBOB]

Aladdins cave right there! Fun times seeing the transformation. And can’t wait to see the cars out and about. Good work crafting, Mr BOB

Yes indeed- thanks again for your help!

You selling any of the z3 racks?

Whenever I get around to it, yes.

[moatilliatta]

What shock mount? :P

Good to see shop space coming along, I may try to make a weekend trip up and check it out. Find something I need to buy.

[AWDBOB]

What shock mount? :P

Good to see shop space coming along, I may try to make a weekend trip up and check it out. Find something I need to buy.

Bahaha good eye- the springs that came on the car are made by Vogtland and are soooo low, I can only assume these shocks are bottoming out constantly. JakeB gifted me some new KYBs he wasn't using, so I am trying to find the right spring to use with them for budget sake until I inevitably do GCs later on.

And yeah man, once I get things organized/inventoried better (and maybe a car running, perhaps) you should!

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I set a goal to get an "area" of the car finished up tonight after work, so I picked the passenger front corner. I had to splice turn signal, side marker, A/C, ABS, horn, fog light and washer fluid pump pigtails because they were gone on the harness I pulled out of the Atlantic Ocean.

This is what I'm dealing with:

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It's not routed properly, but I don't care all too much, because it's functional. Also, note, since the car is '91 it came with the r134 pressure switch setup, which is nice.

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Pulled out my headlight parts and got the adjusters freed up, replaced a few misc springs/etc and threw the headlight in with a euro grill, as well as a decent used ZKW fog, courtesy of mjweimer.

These are terrible yellow ebay fogs:

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Much better:

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Also, got rear side markers installed, as well as some red tails that I took from Linda (Linda went back to clean stock tails). Really cleaned up the rear end. I have a good spare bumper trim that I'll throw on someday, also courtesy of mjweimer.

I got these wheels from Dwight through helping him with some work, and normally don't care for them, but I think they look really neat on this car, so here they will stay.

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[Matt@EDC]

This thing is gonna look awesome! Loving the wheels and the red tails 😍 Will look great once the diamondschwarz is all polished out 😎

[mjweimer]

I know all the wiring is really tedious but you are really making some serious progress. I like how those wheels look in combination with the DS paint and agree with Matt@EDC this will look great all polished up.

[moatilliatta]

I agree with the D-force D-Schwartz Combo.

Slate it!

[2mAn]

I love it when the car comes together so nicely when none of the changes were really planned to be that way and it all just works.

[Matt@EDC]

I love it when the car comes together so nicely when none of the changes were really planned to be that way and it all just works.

Sounds like a contender for COTM, if & when he gets it done, purely for his sheer perseverance if nothing else! I’m willing this one over the line, after the last 3 haven’t work out.

Come on BOB, keep it going! 😝

[2mAn]

Sounds like a contender for COTM, if & when he gets it done, purely for his sheer perseverance if nothing else! I’m willing this one over the line, after the last 3 haven’t work out.

Come on BOB, keep it going! 😝

I've tried to get Bob to give me a COTM for years now...

[AWDBOB]

Thanks, gents!! The more I look at the wheels on the car, the more I think they're meant to be.

2mAn - agreed! I have so many spare parts I have been hoarding for hoopty, it's nice to see them get put to good use.

I finished up the drivers side of the engine bay part of the chassis harness and got it all tidied up, and finished up the battery terminal/cable install.

This side turned out better than the passenger side, me thinks.

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[AWDBOB]

Last job I'll be able to get done this weekend was installing the door cars. I like natur leather sport interior, but cannot stand tan vinyl comfort interior..... so it had to go.

I had these cards and a grey carpet in the stash. Just need to find manual window crank plugs and rear arm rests in black.

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[Matt@EDC]

Pimipin’est HooptE around!