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Old 06-05-10, 10:24 AM
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Originally Posted by carbongs
thanks, those will SOON be gone


last night these things arrived in the mail. i am so happy to be the owner of these veilside mirrors! i've had my eye on these for about 2 years no and finally got the opportunity to get them from a Autobot here on the classifieds. thanks buddy.
Thanks buddy, you also helped fund my newest project!! and just glad they found a good home. your car is coming along very nicely there! keep me posted on those mirrors. GL with the build.
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Originally Posted by AutoBot
Thanks buddy, you also helped fund my newest project!! and just glad they found a good home. your car is coming along very nicely there! keep me posted on those mirrors. GL with the build.
thanks again man. found out i need to do some mods to the passenger door mirror. needs some parts to make it work properly. i was able to power up the driver's side.
Old 06-05-10, 10:58 AM
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GO TONY GO!! Good luck with the build man.
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Your car has inspired me to throw mines away =)
Old 06-05-10, 12:34 PM
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Originally Posted by Automan
GO TONY GO!! Good luck with the build man.
thanks dude you too. wanna donate an ipad to me?

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Your car has inspired me to throw mines away =)
thanks
Old 06-05-10, 03:20 PM
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Keep us updated..
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Originally Posted by tmf2004
Keep us updated..
definitely will! haha here's more from today!

So now that I work at a radio shop, I've got a lot of stereo heads and experts giving me ideas and helping me out. Big shout out goes to my buddies John Marsh, Scott Paterson, and Peter Lutz for helping out with this build and Bing Low (Veritek) for stopping by to check out the progress.

As you know I already semi prepped the trunk by taking out the old system and some panels. Well, John took one look and said hmmm.



Called Scott over and he said hmmm.



Petey said here's your problem lol



Some of the goodies going in



More demolition







Now what?



Maybe this?





The air saw was summoned lol







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Weight reduction FTW!



Me so sad







Hmmm, think this hole is big enough guys? lol







John's thinking... we need sound deadening ASAP!









I dunno why I like to be in trunks working all the time. Being in my own makes me even happier lol





Peek a boo! I see you!



More to come. That is all that we had time to do today at the shop.
Old 06-06-10, 02:20 PM
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Yeah boy!!!! The next phase has started!!
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Originally Posted by veritek
Yeah boy!!!! The next phase has started!!
you know it. step by step and day by day but it'll get done. in due time
Old 06-06-10, 05:13 PM
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car looks good! can't wait to see it finished!!
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Originally Posted by carbongs

nice job tony.....i have a question what are you gonna do about your back seatbeat that used to hang in that whole back there? i also cut out alot of my rear deck and i have about the area you have for the rear seatbelt (the one that hung through that little hole)



oh, you need more sound deadening sir. btw this may have been a fluke but i got some stinger roadkill insulation once recently (my audio shop tried to get me away from dynamat as they sell stinger) it SUCKED. while they claiming it to be a bad batch of the glue but it wouldnt stay down and was messy as hell. i returned it....

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Originally Posted by sakataj
nice job tony.....i have a question what are you gonna do about your back seatbeat that used to hang in that whole back there? i also cut out alot of my rear deck and i have about the area you have for the rear seatbelt (the one that hung through that little hole)

oh, you need more sound deadening sir. btw this may have been a fluke but i got some stinger roadkill insulation once recently (my audio shop tried to get me away from dynamat as they sell stinger) it SUCKED. while they claiming it to be a bad batch of the glue but it wouldnt stay down and was messy as hell. i returned it....
no worries, there will be more sound deadening. that was only 1/3 of 1 bulk pack of which i have 3 more. we deal with stinger at the shop so we live by it. never had any issues with it and we have several builds that have gone to compete in sound quality and it works. our shop manager is the world champion in sound quality right now so to me stinger road kill is

i may be deleting the seat belt. it all depends on how we design the new rear deck piece. i don't need it so
Old 06-07-10, 04:39 PM
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Can't wait to see what's going to take up that space.
Old 06-07-10, 06:23 PM
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Was there a need to quote ten pics to flaunt your "expert knowledge" lol


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