What Are You Doing To/With Your Car Today?

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Got new carpet done. New seats and adjustable. Gone is 8pt rollbar stupid plastic seats that were not adjustable. Also 5pt belts. Don’t no what to do with myself with adjustable seats now! Next is 3pt retractable belts! Car is still fast, will be fun getting kicked off the track! Have a great day guys and gals.

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My friend installs this stuff ,He told me to spray my glass down with water and put a black plastic garbage bag up to it them put the car in the hot sun for a few hours then pull it off
 
Paul King said:
My friend installs this stuff ,He told me to spray my glass down with water and put a black plastic garbage bag up to it them put the car in the hot sun for a few hours then pull it off
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I wonder if a hair dryer would soften it and make it more peel-able
 
I attended an intensive sculpting workshop in British Columbia, Canada over the last few days. This is one of 5 projects I did. It's about 14 inches tall or so.
Here, fishy fishy!

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I didn't bother with the pictures because they just didn't show it, but someone please remind me to not buy another car with old window tint. Just finished removing 20+ year old window tint from all the door and quarter glass. Took a fair amount of time, once I figured out how to do it easiest. Man what a workout. Still have the glass bowl in back to do. Can you see the lines? That's the seems in the tint film. Nothing like old glue.
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Get a large trash bag, open it up to cover the whole window. Spay the inside of the window with soapy water, or windex. Put the trash bag on the inside of the glass and make sure everything is covered. Put the car in the sun and wait for the glass to get hot to the touch. Then slowly peel of the tint. Any glue left behind, spray with ammonia, and scrub with "OO" steel wool.
 
As far as I can tell, my car used to have mostly all black interior, but was converted to gray and silver. Well I'm starting to go back to black. I don't know what you call them, but the backs of the buckets on my '66 Cuda have these metal plates covered in vinyl. So I pulled off the passenger side, pulled the chrome trim, scuffed and painted it. Looks pretty decent considering the plates were dented and the vinyl scuffed, scratched, and scraped.
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Today I fueled the Barracuda and washed it again getting ready to put it up on stands and rebuild the front end. I know once I start it will grow as I need to install offset upper A arm bushings and replace the poly strut rod bushings with the stock rubber ones. Install LCA reinforcement plates, Then I will install new torsion bars (TBD) and pull the exhaust manifolds for detail and paint. I think I will install a rear sway bar at this time as well. The power steering pump is howling so that will come off and go to firm feel for repair, I just hope the PS box is OK. That is the short list keeping in mind that I have already done all this during the build but my expectations were not met so I will do it again----------
 
Finished removing all the old window tint today after going to Cars and Coffee this morning. Got a pretty good system going finally and 75% of the back glass only took about 30 minutes. Great day!
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Didnt get anything accomplished on my car today because I had to swapout intake and plenum gaskets on my 5.2 Grand Cherokee. Still waiting on the new injectors to show up. But I did get my new blast cabinet setup so I can start cleaning up some Barracuda parts pretty soon.
 
3 point retractable belts installed. Retro belt from summit. 54 bucks, well made. Bolted to stock locations and the reel cleared the seat! 70 Dart swinger.

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Waiting for parts I should of ordered a long time ago so drinking a beer and listening to old rock and debating on weather to clean the garage or just keep drinking.
 
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