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14 May

Wiring, Part 1

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16 Apr

Insulation: done!

I’ve been slowly working on piecing together the insulation to make the car more enjoyable to drive. This should reduce external sound and losses of internal heating/cooling quite a bit.
Josh
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28 Mar

Custom Digital Gauge Cluster

Edit: Most of this info is wrong now. You can find the latest source repository at https://github.com/joshellissh/PiDGC Edit: Updated 12/9/21 to reflect large changes I have made to the system.
Josh
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12 Feb

Fitting Seats

After much searching and consternation I decided to go with old Miata seats on my build. They are comfortable, easy to get new skins for, and (I think) look good.
Josh
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05 Feb

Lots of stuff

I’ve made progress on a lot of things over the last few weeks. I’ve started the wiring that’s on the outside of the car (main battery cables, etc.), finished some
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24 Jan

Exhaust Work

As you guys all know, ground clearance on these cars is hard to come by. It’s made worse in my case by the downpipe from the turbo exiting after the
Josh
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10 Jan

Engine & Transmission

The Ecotec LNF I have is from a 2008 Pontiac Solstice GXP, and came with about 57k miles. It needed some routine maintenance and a little modification ahead of the
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05 Jan

New firewall & tunnel cover

As you’ve hopefully seen in the previous posts, the engine did not fit with the stock firewall. That would have been ideal, but it just wasn’t in the cards. It
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23 Dec

Master cylinder rebuild

Taking a little detour from the more major work I’m doing, I decided to rebuild the old master cylinder. It was in pretty terrible shape: rusted and crusty all over,
Josh
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17 Dec

Fuel routing

It took a while to get all the necessary parts in, but I finally have the fuel tank buttoned up and pressure tested and all the parts needed to finish
Josh
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