Uhh! NO! I mean I really don't want to!! I am paying for liability insurance only. I stopped paying for full coverage insurance the moment the car depreciated below insurance replacement value. I' don't believe my insurance wouldn't pay for my medical bills if I were injured in an accident even if the airbags were still in it. I'm so not giving them an excuse to throw a price hike at me for removing something off MY car that they wouldn't cover me for or pay for in the first place. Besides, I've saved a boat load of money by not telling my insurance company about all the mods I've done to my car!by thebarber » Wed Nov 04, 2015 12:20 pm
you MAY want to think about telling your insurance company your car doesn't have airbags...just in case
I made them from sheet aluminum, way back in 2004 when I first lowered the car. They are in need of a good sanding again. I thought I had a couple pics of them off the car, but I can't find them on me hard drive. I made a bunch of little items for it back when I first modified it back in 04. I made a stainless battery hold down and the roof rack delete covers. I formed the rack delete covers from sheet aluminum as well.by vibenvy » Fri Nov 06, 2015 8:36 pm
Steering wheel looks good!
On a bit of a side note, where did you get your pedal covers and dead pedal?
Wow! That's very impressive that you made the pedal covers and roof rack delete! The roof rack delete looks amazing!liquorboxracing wrote:I made them from sheet aluminum, way back in 2004 when I first lowered the car. They are in need of a good sanding again. I thought I had a couple pics of them off the car, but I can't find them on me hard drive. I made a bunch of little items for it back when I first modified it back in 04. I made a stainless battery hold down and the roof rack delete covers. I formed the rack delete covers from sheet aluminum as well.
at dons 115 by Tim Robbins, on Flickr
2nr wagon 061 by Tim Robbins, on Flickr
And how about Tim the Tool Man, Tim Allen. It must be something about the name!tpollauf wrote:Very nice work Tim The similarities between us Tim's are numerous ...
I'm sorry but I don't know what this Free Time is that you speak of? My son's and I have been thrashing to get unfinished old projects buttoned up and un-needed stuff sold and or out of the way so we can get our shop straightened up for the same reasons tpollauf. Hopefully I can get it all ready before the snow starts to fly. Fingers crossed.by tpollauf » Sun Nov 08, 2015 12:22 pm
The similarities between us Tim's are numerous ... but I think you might have a bit more free time on your hands. I'm hoping to get my shop cleaned up this fall to where I can enter it and actually perform a few "off season" mods to my Vibe.
Water does run inside the doors. In my case when the windows go up and down the outside plastic lip would slide out of position. This allowed water running down the outside of the window into the joint between the bottom window weatherstrip and the side window track weather strip. I adjusted the bottom weatherstrip then used hot glue to fill the gaps to keep it from sliding out of position.liquorboxracing wrote: removed the blown stock speakers from the front doors and to my surprise realized they both had what appeared to be water damage. After careful evaluation I confirmed both had been wet. In fact both had been very wet at one time. I started checking for leaks in the door around the windows and seals and after an hour with the hose on both doors I gave up on locating a significant leak. Both doors got water inside them mind you, but not enough to get overly upset about and very little of it was dripping over where the speakers mount. So now I'm puzzled. ??????
I wasn't able to find anyone with the Schosche Speaker mounts in stock when I installed my speakers so I had to make my mounts. But here is the part number at Crutchfield for them if anyone wants them.trb wrote:Nice install Tim! I agree on the parking brake wire. I ended up getting a bypass for my son's car also, and told him to make sure he puts a cardboard shield on the driver's side of the screen so he "can't see" the screen while he is driving. And thanks for the info on the speaker adapters. I've been planning on new speakers for my GT , so I'll check out those you got.
Enjoy it!
Thanks tpollauf. I am way behind on posting updates to my site. I lost all my Dreamweaver website files after upgrading my laptop to Windows 10 last October. I have all the photos and interviews still, Thank God, but all the Dreamweaver were lost. I'm slowly piecing a new site together and this time storing it on it's own external hard drive like I do my photos. Hope to have it ready to re-launch by spring.tpollauf wrote:Also, I think I complimented you on this before, but love your photographic website Lots of variety, good models (both machine & humans) and well done. Keep up the good work
Sumitomo HTR ZIII's! Actually I'm a bit puzzled at the fitment of the front tires. My front rims are 18 x 8's and these front tires (215/40ZR18) were supposed to have a 8.5 section width but they seemed to be stretched onto these 8" rims. Don't look bad but not what I was expecting. I need to investigate this more. The rears are perfect, and huge!!! 265/40ZR18. Some modifications are needed to fit this rear wheel and tire on a Vibe.vibenvy wrote:Wow, that manifold is beautiful! What tires did you get?
I know! I love my Enkei rims, but I had to send the front tires back. I didn't like how the 215/40 R18's looked on the front rims, so I'm sending them back and exchanging them for 225/40 R18's. The 225's have an 8.1" tread width and a 9.1" section width where the 215's had only 7.5 tread width and 8.5" section width. Plus the 225's are a touch taller at 25.1" tall. They should round out and fit the rim a lot better and also fill up the wheel well a bit more. Should have my 225's by Wednesday and have them mounted by Friday. Still waiting on my engine parts to get back from powder coat as well. I'll post pics next weekend.vibenvy wrote:Those wheels look great! Can't beat a good ole 5-spoke wheel! Now hurry up and get them on !
Thanks tpollauf! The cover has no welds anywhere, it's one single piece of 3000 series 18 gauge aluminum. The cover will be painted gloss black, and the mesh will either be satin black or left natural in color. I'm leaning towards satin black, but I'm not 100% yet. I'll be making a couple other aluminum pieces for the engine bay in the future. For now just want to get the car drivable before cruising season starts.tpollauf wrote:Awesome metal work there Tim 18 gauge is not very thick for a cover. Did you TIG weld any ends/corners? Will this piece be Anodized? Will it stay the natural aluminum color? Sharp looking no matter what
I completely agree with you handmedown03!! I really hate the way it looks as well. It was very difficult not to paint the shroud black when I had it off. I had a good lengthy discussion with my boss about painting it and we were both worried about adhesion of the paint especially on the very hard to reach nooks and crevices that could not be thoroughly prepped for painting. I decided that instead of wasting my time and money on the plastic shroud, that I would instead buy an aftermarket electric cooling fan and make an aluminum shroud to mount it to the either the factory radiator or an aftermarket all aluminum dual core rad. For now I am going to have to live with the big white ugly shroud though.handmedown03 wrote: Can't believe you resisted the urge to paint that fan shroud. Bugs the crap out of me to see that big white thing everytime I open the hood. If I get the time, mine will be black.