I needed a center console and was just going to build it out of sheet aluminum but I didn't really care for the way it turned out in the car
Then I bought some foam and shaped something up that kind of fit the old dash.
I was going to coat it in fiberglass then bondo it and paint it but fiberglass resin was like 40 fuckin dollars without the sheet.
Went on ebay, found a sketchy carbon fiber kit and poison gassed my entire house with vinyl esters.
(Do this shit outside always, the chemicals are nasty and permeate through everything)
I didn't vacuum bag it or anything. The sheet wasn't large enough to do one clean pass cover either. It's probably the shittiest thing ever made out of carbon fiber in existence.
I found a second seat on ebay for cheap and it matches the drivers seat so I went ahead and got that installed yesterday.
The factory seats in this car were rusted to the floor pan due to the battery tray leak so I went ahead and just made little metal tabs and welded nuts to the back. I cut out what I needed to on the stock mounts and welded the the tabs on.
I finished all the stereo wiring and installed the rear speakers and mounted the stereo up under the dash. I'm using a kenwood marine bluetooth amplifier so I don't have to have an actual car stereo and it takes up only a little panel space.
Went ahead and installed the other door card I made as well
I had some problem with my gauges I made not displaying the car voltage. The chip that handles the OBD2 communication measures voltage but it doesn't return hex bytes like OBD commands do so I had to write the function a little differently to get it to party. It probably took me like 3 hours at least sitting in a freezing ass car to figure out what the fuck was going on.
That's just a regular serial stream going to the controller without seeing any return data.
This is printing the returned data from the chip and you can see how it's just not returning the same thing after receiving that ATRV command for some reason.
It's like one of the serial commands was not terminating correctly causing all the data to not be sent right until it failed enough times for the requests to line up again.
I finally got it though and now the voltage command for the STN1110 command fucking works and I can display it correctly.
Still having some issues with the fuel tank, but I think the sender just isn't working correctly due to it being old as fuck. I tried to clean it and I measured the resistances of it and coded accordingly but something else is effecting it in the car that I haven't had time to go over yet.
cleaned up the engine bay a little today and started epoxying shit to the panel so I can get those little gauge displays mounted on it.
I heat wrapped the oil and water lines near the headers and did a couple unseen things but it's coming along nicely I think.
I still need to get the wideband installed and clean more shit up.