Here’s how she looked on Monday night:
Thank god for the RS body panels because it looks REALLY bad at the moment.
First to go was the trunk since it’s probably the easiest and has the least amount of wiring:
Then out went the passenger seat and center console among other things:
Then all of the door cards, side panels, a pillars, b pillars, and the roof liner came out:
A few random pieces and the rear wiring harness:
Then the driver seat, gauge cluster, HVAC, and everything else connected to the dash came out.
Then the dash was removed (man I wish it could happen as quickly and easily as these pictures make it look!):
Then with my magic wand, the dash bar disappeared:
OK, it didn’t disappear. I found it outside the car:
Progress is good:
After that picture it started getting dark. I managed to remove the fuse box and almost the entire rest of the wiring harness behind the dash before I ran out of light. Tomorrow morning I’ll finish up and everything will be gone (heater core, blower, all wires, etc.). I just wish I had started earlier this morning because this could have been done in a day if I didn’t run out of light.
Once that’s done I get the exciting job of removing all of the sound deadening material / tar that is all over the car. Then as a reward for removing the tar, I get to scrape and pick away at all of the silicon in the seams and take a wire brush to them to prep for the seam welding. Fun times are ahead…
