Project WDE Talon

[BigTyla]

Awesome dude, it's getting closer Let me know if you want some help this week/weekend.

Also, there's a HSV Flat Four meet tomorrow night at Mellow Mushroom if you want to come. Not a huge meet but always a good time and some pretty cool cars (not just Subies) show up.

We'll see how the wife feels tonight. I wanted to work on the car last night but couldn't bring myself to do it since she wasn't feeling too well and I wanted to be in the house with her in case something happened. Hooray pregnancy.

Here's what's left to do to the car:

1) Install interior
2) Install bumper, spoiler
3) Bleed brakes
4) Change oil, coolant
5) Install downpipe

Blackmount - thanks for the invite. We'll see what's on the schedule then.

[Blackmount]

No problem man. Not much of a 3s community around here lol...closest thing i got is DSM's that or they are just hiding.

[BigTyla]

I've gotten a bit done in the past couple of days. I decided to put my dashboard back in yesterday, but beforehand I remembered the previous owner supplying some replacement speakers for the ones in the dash, so I went hunting for them. Didn't realize they were Infinitys!



That got me thinking what other goodies I might have overlooked. I remembered a pair of rear shocks and springs I got so I took a closer look at them as well.



Look closer...





Score! Those might come in handy down the road.

I installed the Infinity speakers in the dash and started putting the dashboard back in. I did enough to secure it well and left it here for now since I still need to clean up the surface of the gauge cluster before I install it.



I popped the rear hatch for the first time in ages and remember why I stayed away from there for so long. The thing is a mess! Time to take all of the trim out and clean this up.

Found a nice present in the tail light section.



I guess the previous owner decided to stick some of the stock carpet fabric stuff in the trim that covers the left rear shock housing. WTF?!?!



I've also finally decided to scratch the itch to remove the rear seats. Hey look, another present!



While I had everything out, I removed the rear antenna and the rear wiper fluid housing since I won't be using either of those anymore. Check out how dirty it was.



I attacked it with Armor All Wash and Wax and a rag and a small brush. This is the result of one pass:



Not bad. Will probably go over it again sometime to clean it up even more.

[BigTyla]

One more pic for the lulz:

[Blackmount]

AGX's are full of so much win.

[VR4Rob]

If you want to come over a little earlier tomorrow, bring that gauge cluster and we can polish it up with my stuff. Lookin great

[BigTyla]

If you want to come over a little earlier tomorrow, bring that gauge cluster and we can polish it up with my stuff. Lookin great

You read my mind.

[BigTyla]

I spent yesterday fixing some of the wires in the engine bay that cracked over time due to heat. Ended up crimping on some female connectors to route them to their respective locations. I have one connector that broke off that I need to solder to the wires it belongs to.

I also put a lot of the front interior in the car yesterday. Looks like a lot of the tabs for fastening all the pieces together were broken off, particularly the mounts for the HVAC controls, so it's hanging around loosely. I'll have to try to find some at a parts store. Shouldn't be too difficult.

I'm also having a hard time putting the rear trim pieces back on (around the hatch) since I broke so many of the clips taking them off. I have no idea where I'll be able to find these clips. I've spent a lot of time searching but nothing has come up.

All I have left to do to try to start the car is hooking the last of the wires up, putting the correct coolant temperature sensor in, putting on an oil filter, hooking up the oil return line to the turbo, and filling it up with oil and coolant.

[Blackmount]

what trim pieces specifically. I have to make a run to the yard later in the week, I can pick u up some clips and ship them to you?

[BigTyla]

It's the trim pieces that go around the hatch and rear window panels. There are two different types of clips that hold these in. I'll snap a picture of them when I can.