Some more work done on the car over the weekend. Not much that was picture worthy. Things have started to go back in the car which feels good. I painted the rear speaker supports, installed and wired in the rear speakers. Then I bolted in the rear panels. This is the first time since I have owned the car that the rear panels have been bolted in and secured.
Before installing the panels I did some rust proofing. Since I can't really reach behind the strut towers I used Fluid Film and sprayed it in all the seams to help seal them up. This is really good stuff my aunt and uncle use on their sail boat to prevent rust.
Some left over pieces in the dash from back when this car was a TSD Rally car. I'd be nice to get my hands on a good dash. The carbon fiber sticker blends in nice enough to cover the holes, but its starting to peel off now.
While I was at it, I tested the stereo system. Since The amp hadn't been hooked up right in the past I was worried it might be faulty. At first I couldn't get rear channel to work. After playing around with things, I discovered the rear RCA out put on my head unit was garbage. Made sense why some one had wired all 4 speakers in to just the front out put on the amp now. So I went shopping. The new head unit was on sale and with it mocked up to test everything worked good.
This is where everything went sideways. I finished off installing the dash and putting a bunch of things back together. I properly wired in the new head unit and got it installed. At which point I tested it again. In my previous test all 4 channels worked good, this time I had lost my right rear channel. ARRGG!!! So there I was pulling E36 M3 apart to test. I discovered one of the brand new RCA cables I got had crapped out at the connector. My attempt to fix the connector failed, so I had to pull all the carpet up and rear panels to remove the broken cable and replace it. Thankfully I had a spare one, but I lost an evenings worth of work. Its all back together again and everything works fine once again
Before installing the panels I did some rust proofing. Since I can't really reach behind the strut towers I used Fluid Film and sprayed it in all the seams to help seal them up. This is really good stuff my aunt and uncle use on their sail boat to prevent rust.
Some left over pieces in the dash from back when this car was a TSD Rally car. I'd be nice to get my hands on a good dash. The carbon fiber sticker blends in nice enough to cover the holes, but its starting to peel off now.
While I was at it, I tested the stereo system. Since The amp hadn't been hooked up right in the past I was worried it might be faulty. At first I couldn't get rear channel to work. After playing around with things, I discovered the rear RCA out put on my head unit was garbage. Made sense why some one had wired all 4 speakers in to just the front out put on the amp now. So I went shopping. The new head unit was on sale and with it mocked up to test everything worked good.
This is where everything went sideways. I finished off installing the dash and putting a bunch of things back together. I properly wired in the new head unit and got it installed. At which point I tested it again. In my previous test all 4 channels worked good, this time I had lost my right rear channel. ARRGG!!! So there I was pulling E36 M3 apart to test. I discovered one of the brand new RCA cables I got had crapped out at the connector. My attempt to fix the connector failed, so I had to pull all the carpet up and rear panels to remove the broken cable and replace it. Thankfully I had a spare one, but I lost an evenings worth of work. Its all back together again and everything works fine once again
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