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Had a dentist's appointment today, so had a couple extra hours to work on stuff - decided I'd finish up the driver's seat by fabbing up the mounts. So as I noted before, all four "legs" are actually level with each other, making it much easier. They all ride on large-shouldered pivot bolts. I...

Today I spent some time replacing the wife's CX-9's stock stereo with something better. I had planned to build the seat mounts for the driver's side, but it got too late and once the kids go to bed I have to keep the noise down in the garage lol. I did get in some medium beige fabric...

Plodding along. took all the rear door trim off and painted it, and stripped the old nasty tan vinyl from the finisher panel. But on second thought, I probably won't put the trim back on the rear door at all. Really no reason to... These came in. lol....but they're not for the Raider...

O/T picked up another "trophy" for the collection this weekend from my other dirt-related automotive hobby, so that's always nice... Some progress on random things this weekend. First off decided to fab up some mounts for one of the WRX seats using some 1/4" steel stock I had sitting around...

Ok, let's see...what's new? So, continued with my interior cleanup/refresh. I pulled the center console out of the parts Raider, but the PO bedliner'd it for some stupid reason, so not even gonna bother. Stripped off all the usable parts and just trashed it. Yuck. There's too damn much brown in...

Had a bit of time this evening so figured I'd try out something. So, with these 80s cars, trim color fade is a big issue - especially one like this that uses a variety of hard plastics and early "soft-touch" (i.e. vinyl) covered stuff, which fade at different rates depending on what is and isn't...

Messing around with random things today. Took advantage of the nice weather to test-fit one of the rally car's new competition seats (changing over to safer "halo" style seats from the old Sparcos). While looking out for other wheeled conveyances... Back to the Raider....spent some time...

So last night went ahead and pulled the windshield, for no particular reason other than as a way to practice - since at some point I'm going to have to pull the good windshield from the Blue Raider. Man, I'd like to punch whoever thought it was a good idea to use every type of sealant and glue...

So, I drove to New York yesterday. Ok, well not all the way there, I stopped across the river. This trip was to pick up a couple things I bought over FB Marketplace that local friends had picked up for me. First was a set of wheels for the rally car and the second was a black hood for the...

I made up the fuel hoses today with some new Gates Barricade FI, which are overkill but whatever. As I noted before I cut off the crimped ends and just slipped-on the hose with some good FI clamps, which should be more than sufficient since this system doesn't run at a particularly high...

thanks....yeah, winter is pretty boring around here lol...living in the 'burbs with little kids, not much else to do but wrench! the goal with my builds is always to get the vehicle back to "good/near-stock condition" on a low budget and then build upward from there as finances permit. The...

I had to take the Sequoia to get state inspection today, so bailed out of work early. That took no time at all (it's in good shape) so I had some free daylight to do some work. So I've been making a habit of, every time I go out to the parts truck in the shed, pulling off a little box of...

A few things today. Since I'm putting the manual transmission into this vehicle, I guess I can take off the stuff for the automatic, including the shift console, the transmission cooler lines, and the transmisison cooler up by the bumper Then decided to do some fuel line work. The raider has...

I'm in the DC area, so while there are some cool country roads, not much where you can (legally) have fun offroad until you go 3-4 hours to GW National Forest. Much more stuff up in New England area - we go up there for stage rally, but that's mostly on fire roads and logging roads, and going...

Followed this guy out of my parking garage at work today. I've seen it before and it's always dirty. From the looks of things he got some trail damage on the front fender lol. Then I saw some of my fellow commuters while crossing the bridge back into Va. But I digress... Went ahead...

Great vid. I'm always jealous of you guys out west who have so much amazing terrain to explore. There's some interesting stuff here out east, but nothing near that scale.

Mark, you'll be happy to know the hazard switch in the parts truck DOES work. So, it was near 70 degrees today (apparently 24 degrees above normal), so I got to work on the car in my muddy yard after last night's heavy rain. First order of business: test the fuel pump. As expected, even though...

So those of you who followed my prior builds know I always end up with a 2nd cheap vehicle bought specifically to "fill in the gaps" of parts I need/want for the original build. The 2nd vehicle always has to be dirt cheap and in a condition few people would want. For the rally car I had a 2nd...

got any pics of the attachment points underneath? Just a straight weld to the frame, I assume? Look great, may pic some up for my SWB.

Got in all my refurb parts for the rear brakes and got to taking them apart. Really not bad - I know they were working before and the shoes really don't have much wear. Some evidence of leaking from the drum pistons. In any case, I decided to replace all of it since drum stuff is cheap. I kept...