Priya's SX/4 project

[priya]

Will do Robert 

[Eagleearl]

Looks great Priya! Thanks for sharing with us.

[priya]

Thanks Eagleearl.

[Pat]

Looking better all the time. Can I send you a bill for the drool shorting out my keyboard? 

[Desolo]

Very shiny! 

[EAGLER]

very nice this eagle rocks

[priya]

Thanks everyone!  And 1OldFordMan I'm willing to pay for your keyboard if you'll take a third party out of province post-dated cheque.

[priya]

Thursday the final bits of painting on the SX/4 were completed.  The side window frames and drip rails were painted blue and all the plastic body cladding was painted blue.  The whole car had to be masked off to paint the window frames and drip rails, it took hubby and I about 4 hours to do this:



So, after 3 summers and 2 and 1/2 years the body work I started is finally done and all the paint applied.  I may be pretty slow but I stuck to it, was never tempted to give up and I got the job done. I avoided thinking about the all the work necessary, focused on short term goals and made sure I did at least a little on a regular basis and because of that I knew I'd eventually complete it.

The car is back home now and a couple of days ago we picked up the engine from the machine shop.  Next on the todo list is to clean the sand out of the garage and hubby is going to assemble the engine.

[shaggimo]

Awesome work priya!!! Can't wait for a glimpse at your finished product! 

[priya]

Thanks Shaggimo.

[Pat]

Thanks everyone!  And 1OldFordMan I'm willing to pay for your keyboard if you'll take a third party out of province post-dated cheque.

One sweet looking ride. Great, no, EGGselent job.

[priya]

Thanks 1OldFordMan.

[Whuntmore]

Wicked, I can't wait to see the finished product!

[priya]

Me too, Whuntmore.  Shouldn't be long now, although it'll probably be snowing by that time and I'm not sure what sort of pictures I'll be able to get.

[priya]

I got my new carpet yesterday!  And its purple!


And what would new purple carpet be without matching floor mats?


I also got 2 yards of extra carpet I'm hoping I can fit to the hatch area behind the rear seats.

I'm happy to get the carpet but it looks like its going to be a harder to install than I thought.  The manufacturer said to take the carpet out of the box, spread it out and leave it for 24 hours and then it'll regain its proper shape.  I did that and no noticable difference in the carpet 24 hours later.  Its full of all manner of kinks from being squeezed in a small box and the indentations one would expect for the footwells and trans tunnel for the most part don't seem to be there.  Hubby figures once we lay it out in the car it'll regain its proper shape but I'm less confident.  Part of the difficulty is that the carpet was listed for "2 door 4 door" and "fits 80-88" and I thought the 2 door carpet was different from the 4 door and the 4 door different from the wagon so I'm not sure exactly what I've got.  In any event I'm going to be cutting out several inches or a foot in the middle to try and make it fit properly and I think that's going to be a challenge when I can't tell very well where the front and rear footwells are.