What a weekend!!
I was stopping by Roys place to grab a few small parts on my way home from Eugene after work on Friday. Thanks again for the good stuff Roy.
We were shooting the **** about seats again. He mentioned a friend had some manual seats but they were cloth....I was in. He called his buddy Joe about a half hour back to the south and Joe was cool. Send him over so I was on my way. Roy said they were in good shape too.
I get to Joes and meet Joe. Cool dude, really into volvos. Go down into his basement and there are two seats, covered in some cat hair but in excellent shape, like as close to new as you could get. I was stoked. $100.00. I mentioned I will have to scrounge to find a rear seat and he asks if its a sedan or a wagon. Sedan....I have the rear seat too. Ill throw it in!!
Not at all planning any of this ahead of time and rain pouring down. I loaded all of this stuff up in the back seat of my dodge.
I spent a few hours on Saturday cleaning up the seats and getting the cat hair off and getting them cleaned up.
The pics just dont do this any justice the hair was like a coat. But the seats were almost perfect so who am I to judge.
Friggin minty seats!!
I had been working on the audio system last week.
Kenwood head unit, Hertz 5" separates, with the mid in the door and the tweeter in the dash
Hertz 6x9's in the rear deck
Hertz old school EP4 4 channel amp
Fosgate P2 DVC sub.
My buddy Andrew and Scott stopped by on Friday night and both lent a hand. Thanks fellas.
I had a few little issues, bought the wrong sub the first time around so had to return it on Saturday for a 4 ohm version.
Pre fabbed box will go away after I build something cooler and fitting for the trunk but for the time being this will work.
Got the lights all wired up and operational too.
They are oh my god bright. If anyone is considering them for $99.00 each its a great deal. 32 Cree LED's and a proper mount and everything.
https://www.amazon.com/Primelux-8-inch-14400-Lumens-Driving/dp/B01GZST326
I went junk yarding for stuff to seal up the shifter hole. Grabbed some insualation and some shift boots to try out, got some ok speaker grilles and some OEM switches to mess with for more lights. I think I need a good backup light.
Managed to get something cobbled together for temporary use until I can dig up an oem console and shift boot. I feel like those will be extremely rare and hard to find.
Got the service engine light reset and washed it up and slapped some stickers on it.
I still have a bunch of little stuff to take care of, stage zero, replace all the hoses, figure out the shutter in the driveline on takeoff, rebalance a couple tires, make the strut mounts adjustable and get an alignment.
Although I have to say this is one of the better driving Volvos I have been in, pretty comfy and civilized without being boring. Its daily driver status now.
Sean