I held one of Mike @ innovatives battery’s the other day. Its amazing, so light. If I had the neon still, i’d have bought one in a heart beat. It was so light, you can pick it up with one hand, from the top, without struggling.
–mark
Gonna toss up a few photos while I’m inside warming up. Should be heading back out shortly, I’m going to eat dinner first though.
Fun :rolleyes:
Hey, 39lbs of wiring (but that’s less than stock would be as I had already pulled the engine harness and the harness to the rear of the car is still sitting in the hatch).
More updates coming in a few hours. Should be pulling the tar I didnt get last time off the floor boards and doing more underbody stripping.
what tool are you using to strip off the rubber crap on the inside of the fenders?
nice, looks almost as bare as my civic did when i got it home. i was able to maneuver is in my garage by just lifting it.
i wish i could still do that 
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what tool are you using to strip off the rubber crap on the inside of the fenders?
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Yah, as Brent said, wire wheel + propane and a ton of patience. I know, me, patience.
:jawdrop:
Talk about stripped…
You having the inside painted with that special stuff they normally use on race cars?
dude, your car was sick to begin with. but that is just lunacy. your car went from clean to super mega uber ultra clean.
:tup:
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Talk about stripped…
You having the inside painted with that special stuff they normally use on race cars?
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Special stuff? Rattle can primer and dupount industrial semi gloss white, doing the cage stuff in flat black so kinda like a GT3RSR (cept their cages are gloss white and when I sat in one found that there was a bit of excess glare off the cage).
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dude, your car was sick to begin with. but that is just lunacy. your car went from clean to super mega uber ultra clean
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Hehe, thanks, hopefully today I’ll have the interior down to bare metal and I can start masking off to paint.
Not much of an update, no photos of what I did the other night. Worked on the engine a bit, put the rear suspension in. My spec flywheel showed up, unfortunately UPS must’ve played soccer with it, because it’s damaged. So I sent Lindsey an email to ask if they want it back or should I send it to Spec. Hopefully that gets resolved ASAP as I’d like to drop the engine in next week.
Did a bit of cleanup, have some sanding/cleaning to do. Should be painting outside Monday.
Clutch refresh stuff showed up.
Rear suspension back together, with the floor out I can slip the torque tube in with the rear suspension in. Dont mind the mess, what I didnt vacuum up in the interior I literally was just pitching out the door.
I dunno how your getting that all back together by the spring mike.
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I dunno how your getting that all back together by the spring mike.
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This shit fixes EVERYTHING
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I dunno how your getting that all back together by the spring mike.
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A ton of elbow time, back ache, blood, sweat, tears, you know the drill 
I’m doing ok, I’m not sure it’ll run for the BlownEuroz meet (it’ll be there, mostly complete either way) but it should be running within the first two weeks of April for sure.
Not much in the line of visual, been working on the wiring harness stuff a ton as that’s the biggest thing left to do now. Hopefully that Spec flywheel thing gets taken care of in the next 3 days and I’ll drop the short block in and put the transaxle in. I put the entire brake system back together, put all new hardware in the rear suspension and got it all torqued down (though I still have to put front and rear sways back on). Put the 968 lower brake ducts back on as I had pulled them to clean them up and put new hardware in when I refinished the fabcar arms. Also put the torque tube on and the heat shielding under the car. The door panels finally came back off as tomorrow I should be washing the engine bay and cleaning up the interior and masking the car off (might primer the interior tomorrow, we’ll see how the weather and progress goes.) Anyway, just a few photos for tonight.
The only bits of the stock harness I’m using.
Engine bay starting to look a bit more complete, still missing the main act
Started moving/cleaning stuff.(Almost no light on this side of the garage so the bling bling orange lip on the wheels is almost invisible :()
Awaiting a cage, floor, transaxle, and fuel cell.
Hopefully should start changing as of tomorrow.
First time out of the garage since sometime in September. The car is soooo light (especially lacking an engine and transaxle). Literally I can push on one tire and get the car rolling at a fairly good clip, like wheeling a formula car around. Requires ZERO effort. Decided to use Jim’s method and use a can of stripeeze I had sitting around. After getting it unfrozen 
poured it in the interior on the parts where the tar was. Let it sit for about an hour while I ate dinner and played a couple games of cards. Came back out, sprayed it down with the hose, vacuumed it all up and started going to town with the wire wheel on the die grinder at a lower speed. Worked like a charm, almost finished the drivers side when the die grinder finally kicked the bucket (was a cheap $10 harbor freight one that had been dieing for a few weeks now). So that’s about as far as I got today. I did spend some time cleaning the engine bay and flattening out the frame rail heat shielding (more on that later). Still really need to pressure wash and scrub the engine bay though. We’ll see how nice it is tomorrow. Supposed to snow Friday
holy shit that’s cleaning up nicely Mike. better than we did on the silver car (I couldn’t believe even Cervelli gave up and left some tar on the floor haha).
4 X 4
Spent a ton of time in the car today. Was sitting on the crossmember for awhile cleaning the engine bay, was taping off and masking other parts, put down the first coat of paint for the interior, etc, etc. Pics basically speak for themselves.
Man the weather is nice! Broke 55 today, was outside in short sleeves and loving it.
An odd view from below, I say odd because it’s so rare to have so much natural light when viewing from this angle.
Engine bay while cleaning up the last of the grime.
Masking, more masking, and part way through coat #1.