Update!
I have cleaned up the headlining board myself and stuck on some new fabric I found at spotlight. Near perfect colour match with my vinyl paint but not so much the carpet. Unfortunately; but is no real issue since the carpet is technically seperate anyway.
Used the permatex headliner specific spray glue so hopefully it works on the one thing its meant to work on haha.
It is wavy because the fabric is velvet. I have been handling it. The fabric install went quite well apart from 4-5 small kinks where it stuck to itself before i could press down.
I have used the same fabric to modify the rear bench cover. I cut it off at the plastic top retainer and had the new fabric stitched to the small lip of old fabric. Overall great result and definite improvement from grey.
I will install the headliner tomorrow along with the rest of the plastic pieces since the glue says to wait 24hrs for maximum sticky.
The doorcards are proving to be a total pain in the ahs. Nobody will do them since they can't seem to understand how to remove it. I'm pretty sure its glue since i could peel a corner albeit with some difficulty. Even if i could find the right coloured fabric.
I have redone the speaker holders in much thinner plywood than the 40mm thick CHUNK the last guy had on em. Gives way more space to avoid kicking the speaker like my regular occupants did before - shortly followed by me screaming at them for being such an idiot.
The battery tray area has been cleaned up plus the guard patch panel has been migged in and is solid.
I have devised some cardboard window covers from a large box i had to put up on hot days, never understood why they don't make sun reflective side ones like the windscreen ones. Cant be that hard ffs.
Have spent a few days recently obtaining all the little bits for the handbrake to work properly on the rear axle since the prev owner took literally every single component apart from the shoes that exploded in my rotor.
I have had to get the dust shields around the rear rotors + the arms and brackets for pulling the shoes + the spring that goes from dust cover to arm to hold it on.
I have started to sus out the condition of my VS statesman seats it had before. I have fixed the rails i reckon (slight dodgy bits nothing serious)
Dunno how to get off the backrest adjusting wheel so i cant paint the side plastic blue yet.
Want them cerulean retrimmed obviously but they have no rips and foam is mint so it would be a shame really. Even tho they're grey.
Thats pretty much it this time. I'm saving money currently for the block which we reckon will be about 2 grand give or take.
- Surface block on heads (maybe sump)
- Bore block to 100 thou oversize.
- Custom pistons, new pins and rings
- Now looking at deleting balance shaft in favor of balancing the rotating assembly.
- Camshaft bearings installed at shop considering i cant get the cam out myself without wrecking it.
- Probably will put a main cap girdle in or something to reinforce the bottom end.
I have to wait until my conrods arrive so i can send them in with the block along with the crank and new bearings.
Have to repaint the engine bay at some stage before the engine goes in too.
Today i have also had to finally say goodbye to my corolla. Its just not gonna get done. Ive had it pulled apart too long to remember how it goes together even with marked bags, plus its got not engine or gearbox, needs about every single component replaced and was FWD auto 4A-FE so basically worthless.
Got it for free but i cant save it.