I have decided to just go balls out and tackle Roxy like a red-headed stepchild and just finish her up. Trying to take about 2-3 hours a night, light and kate permitting, and just hitting one project at a time.

Last week was the beginning of one of the biggest projects I have attempted with Roxy and that was to clean up the bay and showcase her lil turbo among other things. I know that it isn't a shnazzy shaved bay or anything but I will try to make it as clean yet usable as possible. (charge pipe was removed for another reason to be shown later of course. *cough*

Can you say clusterfuck?


Especially this lil birds nest I like to call the "wire pit of doom"


So I bought 1000 zip ties haha


And then started to trace out a cover panel for the left frame area


And placed my dizzy blocks on the cutout piece of lexan once I got everything all perfect


Ready for paint:


Then it was on to the dizzy block covers and I know I'm gonna get a lot of shit for this one haha

Here they are in stock form. Good old rockford shitgate branding all over the top of it:


I thought painting them flat black would be enough:


But fuck that. I'm not giving them any free advertising... so I sanded the logo off and filled the rest with body filler.


Skidooooch...


4th of July yo. Time for a lil' r n' r with the wifey...

We drove on down to the chesapeake shore for a party at Sean from 4Induction's house...






Ed and his kick-ass kids...


Boo taking shots of the fireworks:




xoxo


p.s. Thanks to all for showing us a good time, feeding us awesome food and giving us some snacks *wink* at the end of the night ;)

Ooook, back to work!

So after looking at the wires that came from the fusebox, I noticed that a lot of the harnesses went over the edge of the frame to the left and just generally looked ugly hanging there and what not. So throwing caution to the wind, I cut the shit out of several fairly large harnesses and extended them by a foot and a half so that they could now go over the right edge closest to the fender, under the frame and then up and around some of the coolant tubing. All hidden to anyone peering into the bay.

This is the point my brain nearly imploded...


Oh and I took the VR trim pieces and wet sanded them entirely smooth, getting rid of all the plastic casting seams and painted them flat black...


I'll stop here just because it's hard to sum up the sheer pain in the ass it was to clean everything up and I feel that photos will be the only way to do it justice. I'm waiting on two other dizzy blocks for the battery relocate and some more wire sheath (I ran out) and will post a final product asap. I learned so freaking much about my abilities once again and am especially happy that I found a power outlet 20 feet away from my carport near the khoi pond (SCORE!) so I was finally able to break out the soldering iron all weekend.

Then it was on to the interior of Roxy...

Look at all that crap just laying around back there dude.


So I went to Depot and got a big ass hole saw and got to cuting up the interior of Roxy:


More wire extending:


And soldering


But it all came out AWESOME. Took me weeks to source some proper government grade, computer case wire sheathing as well as some shrinkwraping to give everything a "better than OEM" look.


Finally made my way to the rear of the car. The taillights had several nasty plugs thrown all over the rear of the car and in any other ride where there were trim panels and crap, this shite would be hidden. But nooo, I decided to go with the gutted out racer theme and now I have to come up with some creative ways to hide those damn wires.


So I extended the main harness by a foot or so so I could hide everything. This meant...

cutting it in half, slipping some wrap on it and soldering it back:


Viola


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So that's it. That was my weekend in photos. I really can't express how good I feel about being so productive with Roxy. I really owe a lot to Kate for letting me just go in my own little world and doing my thing. The coolest part of it all is that I live in this condo development which touts itself as a "wildbird sanctuary" which basically means we have a shitload of bird feeders around the property. But, it's really interesting hearing over 14 dozen different birds squaking away over the entire weekend while you are stuck in the trunk of a GTI with the doors open. It's a new kind of maddening indeed.

This week will hopefully bring the end to all of the crap I started this week and pics will follow.

Oh and p.s., what do you do when your wheels don't fit the adapters?

You get a big ass bit and drill the shit out of 'em hahahaha *winks* Teaser like whoa...

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