okay, i did this last night, and i dont know if i was tired or what but i dont think it got posted so im doing it all over again.


Recap

last fall me and s1lver nips (chris) decided to tear the car down. i had replaced the motor harness and got around to driving it for 3-4 hours or so and it was driving good. no trans issues. so i wanted to clean up a bunch of unfinished stuff and clean up the tons of wiring that has been added to the car over the years so we gutted the trunk and gutted the interior and i pulled around 75-100 feet of old wire out of the car. then it got cold. i got busy and the car sat till about a few weeks ago. we worked on it last week and i worked on it this weekend. word of advice, if you gut your wiring, dont wait 6 months to start back up on the project. took me some time to figure everything out again. first few hours of yesterday were spent going "okay why isnt this working" and then chasing wires to see what i forgot or miswired. wasnt too horrible. a power wire had gotten pulled out under the carpet. i had forgot a ground wire on my switches for the air ride. and i had the radio aux power flipped on one of my relays. but takes some time trouble shooting.

so for the last few weeks we have cleaned up the wiring. i sent parts off to the upohlster to have wrapped and ive been working on the trunk setup. its getting close but i still have allot to do before slamology next month. countdown has begun.

Whats been done

rear side panels had stock seat belt holes filled in and then wrapped in suede
wrapped bottom of center console in suede and made suede boots for the emergency brake and shifter
wrapped rear panels around trunk opening in suede
cut door thresholds off of my kickpanels because the tabs were broke and had both pieces wrapped
removed 75-100' of old wiring and cleaned it up some
gutted the trunk, mounted amp on the back of sub box. mounted air ride tank in bottom of wheel well
replumbed air ride to get the valves down low.
repositioned the battery and compressor per the new layout.
went over the wiring harness in the engine bay and cleaned it up some (not a realy tuck, just getting burned out on the wiring and the car in general)

Whats left

building framework and shell to hold the audio and electrical fused distrobution blocks
building fiberglass cover to go over all the trunk componets. it will have windows to see whats underneath but will hide all the wiring
build mount for mids/highs amp to basically sit the amp in front of the air tank on an angle to hide all the plubming for the air tank.
get new hose for air compressor and reinstall (broke the fitting sunday killing my chances of taking the car for a test drive)
finish off audio kickpods
clean about 9 months worth of dust and dirt.

once that is done the car for me is basically done. its not as exciting to work on it anymore which is why its probalby sat for the last few years. so im just going to call it done. take it to shows and meets and hang a for sale sign in the window.

on to the pics. some of the pics arn't great, wasnt paying attention to what setting my camera was on, just wanted to snap a few quick pics


this is why i took these to an upholster. there is no way i could have gotten this quality with my skills.

jason_1 by Sndsgood, on Flickr

crazy how the black suede looks almost grey in this pic

jason by Sndsgood, on Flickr

before i smoothed the suede out lol.


jason_2 by Sndsgood, on Flickr


interior going back in


jason_3 by Sndsgood, on Flickr

i was at this stage when i found out the switches for the air ride werent working so out came the seat and center console. turned out being a forgotten ground wire back in the trunk. so back in they went. (this is why u dont wait 6 months to redo wiring you tore apart)


jason_4 by Sndsgood, on Flickr

poor shot of the back panel with seats in.


jason_5 by Sndsgood, on Flickr

trunk as it sits right now. notice the wires on the right. this is were the fused distrobution blocks will all go.


jason_6 by Sndsgood, on Flickr

left side which is pretty much done except for getting the air compressor hose hooked up.


jason_7 by Sndsgood, on Flickr

interior pretty much complete except for the kickpods


jason_8 by Sndsgood, on Flickr


jason_9 by Sndsgood, on Flickr


this is one reason i havnt worked on the car to much, picked this up last november and have started working on it a bit. going to keep things very simple with this. its an 07 trailblazer that has like 35k miles on it.

whats done

removed mouldings, badges
installed alarm
installed 10.2" flip down screen with built in ps2
installed pioneer vha-3300? double din cd player

things to come

have a 2" drop sitting in the garage waiting to go on
going to save money and just paint the stock rims black
blue suede going on the door panels
finish the audio out with a simple system.


jason_14 by Sndsgood, on Flickr


jason_13 by Sndsgood, on Flickr


and something im excited about is we also picked up a 2010 challenger that im looking forward to working on.


jason_10 by Sndsgood, on Flickr


jason_11 by Sndsgood, on Flickr

and last but not least, the cars in there home. sad i have a 3 car garage and my car still winds up sitting in the driveway.


DSC_0063 by Sndsgood, on Flickr

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wow very nice pics....love the interior






RIP JESSE GERARD.....Youll always be in my thoughts and prayers...

Jason, do work son!



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Nice Jason! I like the suede!



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-Saint Augustine

Ya I would do the same thing as that, work on the wiring and then pick back up a month o so later, thats why I label the ends with painters tape now! lol

Looks great, very neat interior.










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Always one of my favorite sunfires!

Great update. Really loving the suede.





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Interiors always been a inspiration for me , love it! I feel the same way about my car,pretty much bored with it anymore

Very nice my friend.




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And I thought the car couldn't get any better before. Looks amazing as always Jason.

wow love the suede. cant wait to see this thing in the light!

Wow....really well done. Question about your gauge / dash cluster....obviously youyou put in after market gauges in. Does that mean that you got rid of the stock ecu and re-ran new wiring to trans and motor or did you find a kit on the net that allows you to still use the stock sensors????




Time to get it going again.....

love it man, seems like soo little difference using all suede but really makes the whole interior.

whered you find the suede?

love it btw

suede sucks ballsack to clean but jesus it looks amazing, great job man.

thanks guys going to pick up the new hose for the compressor today. may get it on the car tonight so i can drive the car to work if the weathers good still this week. though my knee is swollen big time from working on the car kneeling the whole time. maybe its my body telling me i need to do a lifted truck lol.



Torres any local upholstery shop should be able to order suede. or places like yourautotrim.com or selectproducts.com or other various interior sites.

diesell i still have the ecu. thast what runs the motor. the gauges i just hooked into the wiring harness to get them working. still need to get my water and oil hooked up but with all the other problems ive had with the trans they were at the bottom of the list.



zyaaaaa

black isnt too bad, but the light grey on the seats is another story. think if i had did it again i would have gone with a blue. something darker then light gray.

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Jason

I dont know if I had shown you my rear package tray that I glassed and covered with black suede but I took it out because the sun faded it real quick, to the point where it was brown and nasty looking. Thinkin you might wanna tint the rear windows?

diffrent materials have diffrenign color fastness. most have stats that tell you how they will handle in the sun, besides my car isnt out that often where it will get allot of sun fade lol.

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Jason...I'm in love. I really like this a lot.

look who came out of hiding!

small update, had hoped to drive the car today but it still sits. ran down to gauge magazines shop and got a new compressor hose, hooked it up and went to start the car last night. air was leaking bad out of the line entering the compressor. no air was getting into the tank. though okay i must have got the line backwards since there is a check valve on it. pulled the hose off, checked the check valve, and the arrow was pointing towards the tank how i origonally had it. so not sure what's going on. will have to look into it more tonight when i get home. was a bit dissapointed. i freaking hope i dont have to drive back to gauge again for another hose.

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Stupid setbacks.










~2014 New Z under the knife, same heart different body~
______________________
WHITECAVY no more
2012 numbers - 4SPD AUTOMATIC!!
328 HP
306 TQ

fail on the air ride....if it wasnt for the fact you have a really nice air ride setup i would swap over to some coilovers






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Lookin good Brother!





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the Jew wrote:fail on the air ride....if it wasnt for the fact you have a really nice air ride setup i would swap over to some coilovers

i thought about it, but then i thought how much the first show i went to how i wished i could easily dump it on the pavement, then i think back to how when i did get coilovers they lasted maybe 6 months before i got air ride.

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