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Old 05-06-2015, 01:48 PM
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Had a Lil Fun today, bought some new tires so had to finish off the old ones

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Spent some time learning how to soder, so I can splice some wires and get my daughters speakers installed.
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A lot of work - for a subtle change.


Anyone notice what's different?
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Originally Posted by michaelhawk
A lot of work - for a subtle change.


Anyone notice what's different?
Painted the door handles black like the 93-97 F-Bodies had?
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^that plus molding removal?
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Yes - I removed the side molding (I like the sleek look), and actually replaced the door handles, with new (black) ones. I try to do minor changes to set my car apart.


Oh and I'm also fixing the door panel cracks. That is why I took the panel off in the 1st place. Almost done with the interior panels, will mount them tomorrow and post a few pics of the fix.
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Originally Posted by michaelhawk
Yes - I removed the side molding (I like the sleek look), and actually replaced the door handles, with new (black) ones. I try to do minor changes to set my car apart.


Oh and I'm also fixing the door panel cracks. That is why I took the panel off in the 1st place. Almost done with the interior panels, will mount them tomorrow and post a few pics of the fix.
Well in all fairness unless you provided us with a BEFORE image, how would we have been able to spot the obvious changes, where we supposed to assume you had a totally stock car to start with?
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Sorry about that - I just bough the car last month, It was stock to begin with. Here is a before picture of the car.


I also fixed the swoosh over the dotted 'i' on the Firehawk logo, fronm the faded yellow back to orange.
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Took her out of the garage an then backed her in...
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Door Panel crack are fixed!
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^^ any before pics? and did you follow the guides posted here on this site?
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Originally Posted by bleepster
^^ any before pics? and did you follow the guides posted here on this site?


Found this one picture of the drivers side door, crack was about 1/3 of the way down, the pass side was smaller.


I did follow the guides online here! Thank you ls1tech.com
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lucky you. Mine are ALL the way cracked - both sides. was like that when bought. hopefully, i'll be buying new panels soon.
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nice job BTW - looks great
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Originally Posted by bleepster
nice job BTW - looks great


Thank you, they came out well. You might want to try fixing your panels even though they are cracked all the way.


One tip when I was doing mine, before fixing I used a small amount of paint to color the inside of the crack - so when the plastic was fit back together it was almost invisible. otherwise I would have seen a sign with a white mark.
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Yesterday we changed out the stock speakers using Kee Audio replacements, WOW do they sound great even with the stock Monsoon head unit.
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My work......watt link,front and rear sway bars from sam strano, and a MagnaFlow bullet to replace my slp baffle.
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finally got my clear license plate cover from afterthoughts (after being on back order for 1 month). got it taped off. once the weather cooperates, i'll get it painted, then install my LED's behind it, and wire it to my fog lamp circuit. I'll wipe off all the greasy finger prints with paint prep. will post after pictures when installed. the shiny parts you see are flash reflections from phone camera.

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Made "retro" tail lights. Write up here,

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Finally got the LT1-S Twin Disc in along with Tick Master Cylinder.

Loving it so far.


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