denpo
Carburated Nihilist
First a flash back from my previous post.
Here the contact pin I had to made redone. For a reason that escape me, the stock one was waaay too short.
Sorry the original one was nowhere to be found at the time of picture, but it was at least 3/8" shorter.
So I got sick for the moment doing bodywork. Too hot anyway. So I got back to the interior.
I'm getting better at the polishing, spent some time on the T-bar chrome trim I just bought. It was (almost) dentless, but full of scratches.
Still not perfect, deepest scratches still shows. I'll make a second pass, I just didn't want to rush it.
Then I decided to reinstall my driver side dash.
I decided to redo them once again.
-Repaint the back from blue to white to match led backlight.
-Installed a ring of led in the backside, will be hooked to a dedicated dimmer.
-Stripped the chrome rings, re-polished the edges, repainted it black semi flat.
-Repainted the pad itself the Corvette correct "Landau Black"
-Finished wiring my headlight actuating signal wire, when I first did the mod it was rather hacked.
-Polished the plastic screens.
-I cut the pesky tab on the column support that force the ODO strip reset cable to an hard blend. So hard in my cable it couldn't function. At first I though I did something wrong, checking and checking again. A search on the web revealed it's a original GM loosy design that stuck. Boy this one got me nervous.
Bonus pic, you gotta love NOS parts :
Here the contact pin I had to made redone. For a reason that escape me, the stock one was waaay too short.
Sorry the original one was nowhere to be found at the time of picture, but it was at least 3/8" shorter.
So I got sick for the moment doing bodywork. Too hot anyway. So I got back to the interior.
I'm getting better at the polishing, spent some time on the T-bar chrome trim I just bought. It was (almost) dentless, but full of scratches.
Still not perfect, deepest scratches still shows. I'll make a second pass, I just didn't want to rush it.
Then I decided to reinstall my driver side dash.
I decided to redo them once again.
-Repaint the back from blue to white to match led backlight.
-Installed a ring of led in the backside, will be hooked to a dedicated dimmer.
-Stripped the chrome rings, re-polished the edges, repainted it black semi flat.
-Repainted the pad itself the Corvette correct "Landau Black"
-Finished wiring my headlight actuating signal wire, when I first did the mod it was rather hacked.
-Polished the plastic screens.
-I cut the pesky tab on the column support that force the ODO strip reset cable to an hard blend. So hard in my cable it couldn't function. At first I though I did something wrong, checking and checking again. A search on the web revealed it's a original GM loosy design that stuck. Boy this one got me nervous.
Bonus pic, you gotta love NOS parts :