So I've steadily been updating my topic on w-body, but I've kinda been lazy and kept you guys in dark as far as my TSTE resto project has been going. So I'll put it here in a nutshell, most recently anyway  :icon_wink:

Come next month it will have been 2 years since I took this car off the road offcially. I've driven it a few times over the past month or so, but just short trips.. around the neighborhood, once to work, once to the garage where my friend works.. think that's it. It's currently not inspected so I really can't drive it too much. It needs a windshield, exhaust, fuel evap recovery lines (from tank to canister - rotted through), working e-brake, and alignment. Unfortunetly I simply don't have the money for the exhaust or windshield yet so I've had to wait, but I've been getting all the labor/free $ work I've had to do done.

I ripped the stock exhaust out because it was trash. I have 2 used Flowmaster 40s with reactive tips and a high flow hat that I need to put in, but I want to just do it right and go full 2.5/2.25 w/ mandrel bends, so it prolly won't be cheap.



most current engine shot - only thing I've done since then is clean up that wiring at the front. That was the heated O2 power/ground wiring.. those run over to the battery ground/fuel pump relay now, no more wires cutting across (well, at least not noticably).



interior getting much cleaner. problem is, the sunroof leaks a little, so it saturates the headliner and drips down. I need to make that a priority soon.



Sony MEX-BT2500 installed..



PAC SWI-5 which works MINT with my Sony. I have the IR sender squashed in between the two pieces of trim for the center console, on the angled part where the dark gray shifter piece meets the light gray lower console. makes the top look a little off center (I shoved it right in the crack between the pieces), but it's right in the line of sight for the headunit and it isn't too noticable, plus I didn't have to drill anything for it.



clean



clean clean



clean clean clean + aweb rstb







btw, some of the pics look stupidly out of focus because it's my girlfriend's camera and I dropped it on the lense while it was open one day and it got a little fucked up... :confused: sooo... yea it doesn't focus perfectly anymore. I need to bring it in before the warrenty is up.

my brand new McLaren keychain :cool: just got here from GB today. postal strikes FTL.
these pics were taken with my (new :icon_rolleyes:) 8 year old 2.1 MP Nikon E800. hey it was free, can't complain lol.



my switch thingys! Primary fan (always hot), Secondary Fan, DIC, A/F Gauge (all hot with ignition). all firewall pass-through wiring has been done by adding pins to the C200 firewall connector. I have not drilled the firewall at all except for the shifter cables, clutch MC and soon for the boost gauge vac line. I filled up every pin I haven't used with extra wiring, so I have at least 5 more wires I can send through that way without drilling. keeps it very neat I think :icon_biggrin:

now you see them:



now you don't



my recently expanded tire collection



winter tires, fresh off the UPS truck.



I'm unsure of what I want to mount these on.. I have 3 good sets of tires; the 245 Cooper Cobras on the crosslaces on the STE, the 225 all season Coopers on the GP 5 spokes on the parked Cutlass, and now these 215 Hankook snow tires. I was originally going to throw the Hankooks on the stock, ugly STE wheels, which I have laying around, but I think what I might end up doing is putting them on the GP 5 spokes, and putting the 225 all seasons on the stock Cutlass wheels to be sold with the car (the tires on th e Cutlass sawblades are utter crap right now and definitetly unsafe).

The 245s are pretty much summer tires, so I figure between those and the Hankooks I'll have the STE covered, and with good looking wheels for each season to boot. I'd probably be asking my friend to do this at the shop, but I dunno yet.. swapping tires between rims is a pain in the asshole. He'd have to remove a total of 8 tires then mount/remount 8, + balance all 8 wheels.. kind of a bitch for him. I dunno I'll have to see what he thinks. Not to mention the alignment that both the Cutlass and the GP needs :icon_lol: poor kid. Ah well, I'll help him on his GTS... so it goes.

that is all  :icon_cool:

I like your idea with adding pins to the C200.

The switch install is very clean, looks good!

I cant wait to get my keychain.....

thanky :) for the pins- I saved ALL the wiring from the TGP, so I had plenty to hack up and use for whatever purpose. I've bent a lot of pins, broken a lot of wires, but I've gotten most of what I needed no problem. I'm trying to be as neat as possible on this car, after having to deal with the hack job my last TGP was. I even made a harness adaptor for my A/F gauge and heated O2 sensor - didn't cut the factory wiring at all.

Now I just need to figure out where I want to stick a power outlet, since I lost the one there. I'm clueless on that one, I want it to look clean but not in a spot where it might be leg-bumped most of the time. Maybe I'll hack two them into the little cubby next to the radio.. might as well, it's useless anyway.

the keychain is really high quality, not like the shit you get here. The leather is very stiff but the cut is perfect, and the badge doesn't look like the shitty gold painted pot metal I see in Pep Boys keychains lol. I wanted to get a matching Pontiac one to go with it, but I might just skip that because it'll look too terrible.

Tony, I reinstalled my power outlet behind the DIC when I swapped to a 1990 console in my 1993 SE. I need to go back and make a cubby for it in order to make it look better though. It's not really visible unless you're leaning down under the dash. I threw it in there so I could use the cheap 12v air compressor I carry in my trunk. That little compressor has came in handy over the years. :icon_cool:

thanks Matt, I was thinking about there as well. I remember seeing a TGP on ebay a while ago that had A/C outlets installed on the side of the center console with a built-in inverter and I always thought that was cool, maybe I'll do that there too.

Quote from: GutlessSupreme on October 28, 2007, 09:26:27 PM
thanks Matt, I was thinking about there as well. I remember seeing a TGP on ebay a while ago that had A/C outlets installed on the side of the center console with a built-in inverter and I always thought that was cool, maybe I'll do that there too.

Pics?

long gone. someone prolly has them.

actually, I know it was on cardomain. check there.

I thought that was Kenny's...someone on the board for sure. It was mounted in the rear console with the inverter inside it, and the outlet visible...very nice!

Quote from: grinders_18 on October 28, 2007, 11:19:41 PM
I thought that was Kenny's...someone on the board for sure. It was mounted in the rear console with the inverter inside it, and the outlet visible...very nice!

Yes, that was Kenny's TGP.

That was actually Luke's work.  ;)