Talk about problem after problem!

Goal for the weekend:

*Install new Sony headunit and Infinity speakers
*Install Momo steering wheel
*Install Koni yellows/ground controls w/front and rear camber kits

Problems that I ran into:

*torn CV boots on right front axle
*hacked stereo harness
*right rear upper control arm, thread insert broke

Going into the project, thought it would be about 6-7 hours of work, but ended up working about 20 hours on it over the weekend! Here's how it started, with my friend, Gabe (Spade) putting the front of the car on jack stands.





Then we started ripping her apart:



Found the stereo harness was complete cut and hacked to ****! Couldn't find one of the wires and had to take the whole dash loose to find the missing wire, that was way up in the hacked harness. Then took the repair harness and soldered it to the factory harness. I already had soldered a adapter harness to connect the factory harness to the Sony headunit.





Now all the wiring is fixed, except the Viper Alarm system wiring sucks, but we will fix that when I install a new and better alarm system. I ended up not taking very many pics since we just got so busy working, didn't take very many pics. Here's the dash back inplace and stereo system all done. The speakers were a pain to install as well, since we had to fix the wiring and solder in new connections. In all the stereo took about 8 hours to install.







I don't have any pics of the suspension install, since it was dark at that point. When we took the front suspension apart we found that the right axle was toast, so we had to find a parts store that was open and had a new one. Installed the new Koni's and Ground Controls in. Then called it a night and did the rear suspension in the morning. BTW....we also stopped since our friendly neighborhood SKUNK paid a visit! Check him out! Bad pic, but the flash pissed him off!



Here's a pic of the assembled rear suspenion!



Couldn't install the right rear camber kit, since the bolt wont come out of the upper control arm, and the thread insert boke the welds trying to get the bold out. Need to get that fixed this week. Installed the new suspension and here's the final result of the look of the car!



My teg with Spade's new 96 cobra



Thanks Spade for all your hard work, and dealing with all the problems we had over the weekend! Just need to get that control arm problem fixed now, that no one seems to have heard of before!

 

damn that sucks man, at least u got the install done.

hope u didnt get skunked on

 

sounds familiar, a few hours suspension upgrade for me turned into a week of death, and it's still goin, how the hell does a shock break like that?! oh well

to persistance

 

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lol.......I can relate......bunch of skunks around my way too......the worse is when they get flattened by cars, and then my car is parked down wind of them.......so I wake up in the morning just to find that my car smells like a skunk

nice wheel
are you going to change over the interior from coffee to black......noticed your door panel is already black?

 

Nice work, much props for the dedication and perseverance.

 

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are you going to change over the interior from coffee to black......noticed your door panel is already black?</TD></TR></TABLE>

was wonderin that 2!

 

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haha that seems to much work.. GOOD thats what u get for riging that eibach raffle u and spade = deatH! haha spade was rolling ppl on the freeway with that damn cobra

 

Glad to hear you got it all done. It sounds like nearly EVERY mod I've done to my car...something went wrong and X hours turned into XXXX hours. Dope looking stereo btw.

 

 

Thanks guys! Wish I had more pics of the suspension going in, but exhaustion took over!

Yeah, the interior will eventually be completely black up front with the rear interior stripped out.

Deffinately nice to get things fixed right! Just need to get the rear control arm fixed and the suspension will be done!

Coming soon....just order 14" Azenis for the steelies!

 

it looks sweet even though it took a while!

 

Yeah, Roger keeps forgetting the Drinking pics! LoL. Shots of 3 different liquors after a full day of sweating = GOOD TIMES and stupidity! LoL



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are you going to change over the interior from coffee to black......noticed your door panel is already black?</TD></TR></TABLE>

Yup, the interior will go black, however performance comes before looks as of right now.

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HAHA We didn't rig the raffle! Hell there were 45-46 prizes!!! Besides we both just got T-shirts, (happy for that) it's not like it was a full $2000 suspension for the cars.

 

nice work dude
sweet pics by the way!!

 

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I just leave that for you! I know how much you like showing off how stupid you got that night! :D

 

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Yes, very true! Thats why you start on a Saturday instead of waiting till Sunday!

All that hard work paid off....your Teg looks good!

 

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Yeah, turned out nice! The interior is so much nicer now, and the ride feels nice, but I wont be able to really test it until the rear control arm is fixed.

The exterior has a lot of flaws, but I'm more about performance than looks. I like a clean ride, but cleaning up the exterior will come later.

 

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Yeah, turned out nice! The interior is so much nicer now, and the ride feels nice, but I wont be able to really test it until the rear control arm is fixed.

The exterior has a lot of flaws, but I'm more about performance than looks. I like a clean ride, but cleaning up the exterior will come later. </TD></TR></TABLE>

Yeah some things need to get rolling first (gotta love double meanings)

Hell yeah, I'm proud of the fact that I look like a goober.

 

is it me or gabe's cobra headlight doesn't look faded anymore?

 

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Nope, we used some plastic cleaner. I used it on my teg as well!

BEFORE



AFTER

 

haha great job. what was the plastic cleaner callled?

 

 

I see that you are blessed with the Tan Interior ...

 

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good idea, I will be picking this up