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My center console felt a little loose, so I pulled it apart and found two of the mounting clips for the inner cover to be busted. So I glued those up.




Painted the inner casette holder. Looks nice and new now




Back in the car.

Quick pass over the mats with the Bissel. This thing is nice. I can’t wait to have some time to do my DD and really clean up the carpet.
Dirty carpet drives me nuts.

These mats are 10 years old. Yes, I don’t drive much but I’ve been stepping all over them while working on this car.

Bissel Spotclean Pro.

There's a bunch or variants of it with different attachments depending on where you buy it from

Buttoned up the pass side. Too hot/humid here (by MA standards) to open the garage and back car out so I did it all from the drivers side

Kick panel and sill plate in alone with clean mats


Hey, it’s back




Painted up a spare set of speaker grills. The ones in the car are the 87-89 charcoal, so let’s see how pure black looks

Wanted to test fit a few wheels.


Never checked the spare for fit, so threw it on.




Wanted to check my cosmis wheel fit with the fender back on the car. I was curious to see how far out it would protrude. One of the reasons why i took the ATS brembos off is because I needed a spacer for this rim to clear. I had a feeling it would already be sticking out.

Looking from the top down, there is some poke. I have the camber set aggressively here as the hood struts don't clear the C/C plates unless i do. (i'll need to fix that but that's a later post). Ideally the camber will be more nuetral than this, so the top of the rim will stick out a tad. If i add a spacer to clear the ATS brembo, it will be even worse.

This is straight down, so the bottom of the rim is a good 1/2" past the fender. If i set camber to 0 the top would be as well. This is driver's side fender looking straight down towards the ground showing the bottom edge of the rim sticking past it




Clearance on the coilover is tight as well. Should really run a spacer.





I ony have two of these Cosmis wheels. COsmis discontinued the XT005R and said they were going to rerelease them this summer with a new machining process and new offsets. We will have to wait and see what those are and see if they have an 18x9 that's a tad bit deeper for the front. I could go back to 94-95 spindles and just run the longer bumpsteer setup, but that only gains me 5mm which I don't think is enough to bother with here. Stay tuned.

For now, once i get the front fenders properly aligned and the inner fender liners back in, i'll put the polished 01 cobra style wheels back on. That's the only set of wheels i have with good tires.