Pictures and Some Other Pictures

A Long While

In the next few picture posts you will see my car be lowered and then put back up because I realized that it was not drivable that low. I have been driving it a while... I seem to have a massive oil leak. Trim has finally been put back on because we polished and waxed it. I still have water spots on the front end because Karl's Custom left it in the sprinklers and then in the sun. So if you ever take your car to Karl's Custom make sure they don't leave it out with water on it. Because guess what, they refuse to pay for the damages. My car had not been out of my garage since I had it painted, I took it to Karl's to get it tuned, they had it for two weeks, didn't fix what I asked them to fix, charged me 400 bucks and ruined my brand new paint job. Perfect. At least you can only see the spots in certain light at a certain angle. Oh and I went to Phoenix cruise night down on central, and I parked next to the only car that was smaller than mine, a mini. And I think I had the only squareback. So here it is.

False Alarm

So after a few weeks of cruising around listening to tunes... my stereo stopped reading my ipod. It would charge my ipod but it would not receive any music from it. This is a problem because I can not cruise without music. It just does not feel right. I was under the impression that it was my stereo because the other problem with it is that it does not turn off. But before I sent it back I decided to check it with other ipods, good thing I did because my ipod was the problem. I just find it strange because it still charges and syncs just fine... but it just stopped working with my car stereo. So, I bought a new ipod. I like my new ipod.

Sound in Stereo

Thanks to my brother spending a day looking at my wiring diagram and rats nest of wires and a diagram on how to wire up a stereo along with an amp that I found... The stereo was installed the next day. All I did was build a wood mount for the amp that I used construction adhesive to attach to the body and then the amp to that. I also bough a underdash mount for the receiver and my friend Steve took care of mounting that. I won't say how... but it works wonderful. So basically we found the right stuff to plug into and turned it on. After we got it installed we cruised around the neighborhood with no seats for an hour. After that I sat in my garage and listened to it, and killed my battery. Good thing my brother has a charger.  I also used so dynomat under the rear interior panels.

Seats Continued

So sliding on the seat covers over the foam is a whole lot harder than the video for JBugs makes it out to be. I believe I ripped two areas on two different seat covers. With luck they are not that noticeable. Soar hands and raw fingers and uncountable hours were spent on the seats. Painting the bases, buying more burlap, and figuring out how to finish the bottom of the back of the front seats(with boot laces), all the time added up. But it got done with a ton of help from my brother. The boot laces came in where the old broken metal teeth failed. So along with missing metal wire in the bottom of the backs which I replaced with some metal dowel type things from ACE I think cut holes in the vinyl for the boot laces, then laced it up with the laces going around the outside of the metal dowel pulling everything down and tight. Tied it off and that was that. Put the seats back together and slid them into place. More seat pictures to come with the finished product pictures.

Past Due

So I really need to update but I don't want to spend time loading pictures and typing so I will say that i got it back from Karl's a while back the lights were working again and the windows were... they did an okay job but its a major workout to roll then down. So next time I post I should be totally done... or for the most part.

It's All you Karl

I guess it is up to Karl's Custom at this point.