As we ring in a new year, I’m thankful for all the friends and family. I appreciate that I get feedback on this website that it has helped others with their builds as well. Here’s to a new year! Cheers! 🥂
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After a few months off, we got back into the garage to get things moving along. The two photos below don’t even being to note the time involved in laying out the final drilling holes. Spacing, alignment, taping, measuring, praying and luck are a few things that come to mind! I think the end result…
Believe it or not, I’ve put about 1,300 miles on the car and realized that I hadn’t put the door cards on! They were tucked away on a shelf in the garage, so I pulled them out and gave the leather a good treatment. These match the FFR seats, transmission tunnel and radio box upholstery….
I’ll be honest, the dash has been a lot of work. Tons of wiring, and any new items creates new needs for more wires. I wanted to support the dash a bit more with the under tray panel from Replica Parts which gives more attach points for the CF dash. Obviously since the dash panel…
Life has been busy (seems like I’m on repeat a lot) – but making some small changes and updates to the build as time permits. Still working away on wiring, which seems like it will never end. Before we drop in the engine, I really want to get the wiring as buttoned up as possible….
Originally, I didn’t plan on having a backup camera. I found some examples on the forums. I figured the touchscreen Alpine deck has provisions to add a front/rear camera. So, I thought, why not? I initially bought a license plate frame with a camera attached. But, I realized that the camera’s placement blocked the license…
The carbon fiber dash is ‘new’ for the 25th Anniversary car, it’s pretty slick looking but also not very forgiving in implementation. The original design is an aluminum dash, and you can buy it pre-cut or design your own. The benefit here is that you can wrap your dashboard with leather or other materials which…