bought my old 94 lt1 back
02-25-2010, 01:04 AM
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I've ripped thru a couple fbody interiors before, including my own. I think doing the interior is tons of fun, and it's really easy too. You really feel like you've accomplished a lot when you step back and look at an interior after you've redone the whole thing...it seems like a lot of work-but keep on truckin man, it's worth it in the end!
My buddy's '94 Trans am had the stock leather seats( rock hard, ripped, and worn), moldy and stained carpet, a broken center console...ect.
We parted out the interiors of a '94 Camaro and a '98 Bird, both cars had less than 60k miles on them...we got some cloth seats in great condition, a less abused carpet(which we washed and shampooed out of the car at the car wash)...and interior panels and a center console, ect. We spent about 4 hours replacing his entire interior minus the dash, and when we where done it was like a new car inside! well worth the time and effort we put into it...very rewarding...it's like a new car!
keep yur head up!
it can only get better from where yur at now! 
My buddy's '94 Trans am had the stock leather seats( rock hard, ripped, and worn), moldy and stained carpet, a broken center console...ect.
We parted out the interiors of a '94 Camaro and a '98 Bird, both cars had less than 60k miles on them...we got some cloth seats in great condition, a less abused carpet(which we washed and shampooed out of the car at the car wash)...and interior panels and a center console, ect. We spent about 4 hours replacing his entire interior minus the dash, and when we where done it was like a new car inside! well worth the time and effort we put into it...very rewarding...it's like a new car!
keep yur head up!
it can only get better from where yur at now!
02-25-2010, 03:05 PM
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Also found a head unit today. A JVC KD-R800. I wanted something i could attach an external hard drive to. Still no news on the seats.... I should hear something back on them today. Carpet should be here at the end of next week.
02-26-2010, 12:57 AM
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The seats can be saved As for the door panels, he is not sure. I did install the new speakers and head unit today. It is nice hearing something coming from the car. I will take more pictures tommorrow after i organize all the motor crap. I should finally get the motor and tranny apart and on a stand. Thank you all for the kind words.
As for the door panels, he is not sure. I did install the new speakers and head unit today. It is nice hearing something coming from the car. I will take more pictures tommorrow after i organize all the motor crap. I should finally get the motor and tranny apart and on a stand. Thank you all for the kind words.
02-27-2010, 02:17 AM
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More pics I disassembled the motor this evening. It was really about to let go, the bearings were grooved to hell. I am just about done taking stuff apart. Almost time for the fun part.... putting all the new stuff back together
02-27-2010, 05:23 PM
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Good luck! Great to see an LT1 car getting restored. 
I strongly feel you should keep the LT1 front end. It looks better than the LS1 catfish and you should be proud to have a clean LT1 car. They are getting harder and harder to spot these days. Most I see are ragged out and look thoroughly neglected (about how yours was upon arrival I would think).
I strongly feel you should keep the LT1 front end. It looks better than the LS1 catfish and you should be proud to have a clean LT1 car. They are getting harder and harder to spot these days. Most I see are ragged out and look thoroughly neglected (about how yours was upon arrival I would think).
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Do any of you know if the drivers side harness unplugs at the firewall and is able to be removed like the passenger side harness? I am getting the car ready for paint and I want to removed all that i can. Thanks in advance.
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Update?? Update... kind of lol. After tearing the car apart I decided to do an ls1 swap. While looking for an ls1 motor and ecm i stumbled across a complete car with a suspected spun bearing. Once i got the car home, it turned out the car was not as bad off as i expected so I decided to build the ls1 car first. It is a 98 ls1 a4. I have been working on it for 2 months or so. Here are the pics of it's transformation. It should be painted by tomorrow night.
I will post pics of the car the day i brought it home soon. I have all ready redone the entire interior. I guess I can consider this a warm up for the lt1 car, lol.
I will post pics of the car the day i brought it home soon. I have all ready redone the entire interior. I guess I can consider this a warm up for the lt1 car, lol.
