Sorry for not updating sooner. Progress has been at a snail's pace. Had to move my parents into a assisted living place, dad in an out of the hospital, work busy. When the car was at school, I was probably able to work on it 4-5 hours a day 5 days a week. Now I'm lucky if I do 4 hours in a week (if that).

I did however manage to finish installing the exhaust and hangers (still just dumped before rear axle).

Started test fitting some 6.5" speakers in the rear package tray (felt like fiddling that day).

Rebuilt the entire RS door mechanisms with new parts (the existing ones all the bushings were shot and a lot of rusty parts).

http://i328.photobucket.com/albums/l...gSystem031.jpg

Routed all the power steering hoses and installed a power steering cooler (pictured above between oil and trans coolers):
http://i328.photobucket.com/albums/l...Routing002.jpg

http://i328.photobucket.com/albums/l...Routing003.jpg

Routed P/S return on the subframe (with tiagon tubing over the braided line) back to the P/S pump. (very tight under there with those big -10 hoses).

http://i328.photobucket.com/albums/l...Routing004.jpg

http://i328.photobucket.com/albums/l...Routing005.jpg

Installed Amsoil's bypass oil filter system kit. Its a nice kit came with mostly everything you needed. I had to buy a few more fittings and extra hose to route it as I wanted. Ended up being a pain to route the hoses around my oil pan and headers (not Amsoil's issue), but with some extra fittings and hose was able to get it done.

I really like the nice clean look under the hood:
http://i328.photobucket.com/albums/l...oseRouting.jpg

Maybe in the future if I need it I'll do some type of oil priming plus reserve (ala Canton).

Took most of the paint off the trunk, starting mocking up rear battery installation, decided to switch from a Moroso battery box to a Optima Battery with hold down. Just seemed easier to for cable routing. Looked like to me with the battery box, I'd almost have to permanently install the battery (least with the 0000 cables I want to run).

Currently working on the trunk and battery along with perhaps a rear firewall between the trunk and passenger compartment. Trying to figure out how the best way to route the battery cables through the firewall w/o having to buy a expensive crimper for this one use (since I want to run the 0000ga starter and ground).

Thinking of bolting on and sealing the firewall, looks like attaching a single piece from the trunk side to the package tray divider might be the easiest way to close it off. Looking for a non-permanent solution (rather than welding it up).

Its nice to see some updates, Keep them coming.

Good job.
Keep up the good work & keep us posted.:thumbsup:

Work slowed down a bunch so I have been able to spend more time on the car.

Started pulling the entire interior out in prep to route battery cables:

Floors where not too bad:
http://i328.photobucket.com/albums/l...orFloor002.jpg

Except for bunch of rust in the passengers floor area:
http://i328.photobucket.com/albums/l...orFloor001.jpg


So I stripped the entire interior down to bare metal using an angle grinder with wire wheel cupped brush:
http://i328.photobucket.com/albums/l...orFloor004.jpg
http://i328.photobucket.com/albums/l...orFloor006.jpg

This is one of the messiest jobs I have ever done, not much fun at all.

Also stripped the trunk (really got up and into as much as I could with a wirewheel on an angle grinder):

http://i328.photobucket.com/albums/l...orFloor009.jpg

I gotta say I really hate the body shop that plastered my trunk with tons of bondo trying to hide the rust and holes. When I looked at the car when I bought it, it certainly looked ok. But once I started to stripe the trunk you could immediate tell something was up with all the bondo. Basically I need a full trunk pan, but not going to deal with it now I want to get it running.

One of the many holes:
http://i328.photobucket.com/albums/l...nkStart004.jpg

About to pull off the top headliner and do the same to the top.

Mocked up a rear firewall that is bolt on:
http://i328.photobucket.com/albums/l...irewall004.jpg
http://i328.photobucket.com/albums/l...irewall003.jpg

Bought Summit's kit for a drive-shaft loop and modded it to fit my application (also made some reinforcement plates):
http://i328.photobucket.com/albums/l...aftLoop004.jpg

Had hoped to install one in both the front (near the trans) and rear (near rear axle), but the rear one is out there is simply not enough room near the axle due to the large 3" exhaust.

Hard to take a good pic of the driveshaft loop with the car 2 feet off the ground:
http://i328.photobucket.com/albums/l...aftLoop006.jpg

Was able to get it within 6" of the centerline of the u-joint so should hopefully pass tech.

Doesn't look too bad from the interior side:
http://i328.photobucket.com/albums/l...aftLoop005.jpg


In process for mocking up the rear battery placement and measuring for battery and electrical cables to go the front the car.

Drilled several holes in the floor boards for bulkhead fittings (drilling big holes in good floors is scary ):
http://i328.photobucket.com/albums/l...eadfitting.jpg

Mostly trying to juggle the very beginning of electrical and should be starting to paint and then insulate the interior.

Thinking of putting Damplier Pro and their Thermal block product on the roof. And a mix of Damplier Pro + Lizard Skin (have a bunch left) on the floor / doors with some Heatwave Pro around the trans tunnel and Luxury Liner Pro (more Second skin products) on the floor, then run the battery, ground and B+ cables over this then lay the carpet.

Good job man. Looking good. Floor didn't look too bad at all.

Thanks. The interior floor by the passenger cleaned up nice. Overall very good floors. So much so a friend came by a few days later and looked at them and said "Oh you put new floors in". That made me happy :)

Its all the holes in the trunk that is disappointing to me, but I'll deal with it.

It looks good Ed. It will be worth it in the end knowing what you've got under everything. Atleast it mostly looks real good, and the trunk doesn't look too bad. Keep us posted on your progress.

Thanks for the vote of confidence Wayne. Certainly not as bad as I have seen on this site and others but definitely not what I was expecting. Here is more pics which is kind of typical of a number of places around the trunk pan:
http://i328.photobucket.com/albums/l...r/Trunk008.jpg

And other side:
http://i328.photobucket.com/albums/l...r/Trunk009.jpg

I am pretty sure that at some point my car had been in a rear end collision and trunk pan got tweaked (you can kind of see the rippling in the pics below) which probably made the rust worse (from water leaks). You can see some welding done that definitely wasn't factory.

Someone had gone to great measures to cover it all up with bondo, and smooth it all out and paint it up nice :( Only because I did a mini-tub did I ever start finding out what was hidden beneath the surface. I would have left the trunk alone cuz it looked so purdy :mad:

But going to treat this all like body work / paint and deal with it later. I live in Sunny California so I can just get it on the road and drive it a bit and a bit of fun.

Started pulling headliner out. Pretty much one of the few areas (other than body / paint) that I haven't pulled out or redone yet:
http://i328.photobucket.com/albums/l...adliner001.jpg
http://i328.photobucket.com/albums/l...adliner004.jpg

headliner wasn't too bad except for one tear near the dome light:
http://i328.photobucket.com/albums/l...adliner007.jpg

But since had the rest of the interior apart and was planning on sound deadening and insulating the interior figured I might as well do the complete interior. Also my car came with white interior with blue dash:
http://i328.photobucket.com/albums/l...maroInside.jpg
that I am thinking of changing to a black interior and since the headliner was blue was going to need changing anyways.

Anyways took a few reference pic/measurements also started labeling all the headliner bows:
http://i328.photobucket.com/albums/l...adliner017.jpg

Was thinking I could maybe get the headliner out in one piece w/o ripping it, but after going slow a few rips later and I was tearing it apart. I was able to get the rear sail panels out in one piece with the tack stripes intact. So far the roof looks good. Most of the original padding seems to be in-place and intact:
http://i328.photobucket.com/albums/l...adliner026.jpg

Next up the messy part of scraping the ceiling.