Ongoing Build..and SC300FIVESPD One Day Gte swap Merged threads
 

hey guys welcome to my car build thead that's always ongoing.
i have always been looking for a sc300 with a factory 5speed since i can remember. so one day on craigslist one popped up. clean title, and it said 4k obo i thought hot danm ill talk that guy down in price. so i hit him up and went to sf to look at it. i acted dumb and finally said, oh man its a manual? no one wants a manual luxury car. and the interior is bad and the body has alot of dents and dings, ill give you 3k. he said ok. so i said ok here is 700 bucks, smog it and ill pick it up. so the next day i wen tthere with the rest of the money and picked up the car. on the way home i saw alot of other sc's. i was pumped. when i bought the car it looked brown. the next day i washed it and my friend took these pics of my car.

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and after the wash was done i discovered this pretty blue color underneath the grime! yikes... the car used to be garnet pearl but at some point it was painted blue. this car is a jzz31 #076 off the assembly line. 3k3 garnet pearlt was the original color with a tan interior.

next step was to get that old tan carpet cleaned up. disgusting man that owned the car did not take care of the poor baby. smelled like butthole and alot of stains all over the place...
i hit the local bargain store, big lots. i bought 4 cans of 409 carpet cleaner and a hand held brush. 10-15 bucks total if that...
here is the 409, you gotta make a funny face when you hold the cans or else it wont work.

http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i2...300/Photo7.jpg

what i did was to take the front seas out of the car first and vacuum the whole carpet as best as i could. then you take the cans of 409 and start covering the carpet. dont stop till its all covered. you have to let it soak for a while. then have some gloves handy with your brush as well. start brushing the carpet. keep a pattern going dont do circles. just back and forth..
after a while you should be getting to the end. scrub those nasty stains with the brush, i got out coffee stains, no oxi-clean here guys just some elbow grease.

once the scrubbing is done vacuum anything that's left over and you should have some sexy new looking carpet like this.

http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i2...300/Photo8.jpg
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this is where the thread starts and is in a random order since this was many threads merged into one. ENJOY!!

next time you at a junk yard:

look at the visors in Mercedes or BMW's, even Volvo, Chrysler and lets not forget Lexus. these cars also have the garage door opener in the sun visors like the 97+ sc's. i was at the junk yard today and bought the visor for 5 dollars. just showed him the visor not the home link. i will be putting it in soon, if it fits in the visor then that's where it will go. keep an eye out you guys. here is my find.
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i2...ft/Photo11.jpg

nice find... ill keep checking back.

is it just basically power and ground?

^^ yea all you have to do is give it power and ground. i alredy pluged it into a 12v source and programmed my garaged door to it. holding it next to my visor it looks line it will fit perfect.

i say basically look in every high end-ish luxury cars for the home link system. if its in the sun visor just rip the frekin visor off. lol.

Cool find Pirooz. I'll have to come check it out sometime this week.

i cleaned it up and i will attempt to mount in my Visor. i need to figure out how i will reuse the fabric. hope i dont have to get it done but worth it! Cannot wait because this works soooo well!

Awsome find! Makes me want to go to the junk yard. havent been there for a month or two now.

OH man! I love this thing.Just finished putting it together and the results are amazing! I started a cut along the top part of the visor then slowly pull it apart and the seam will open. find where you like it mounted, there isn't alot of space so where i mounted it was just enough. Place the transmitter box on the visor foam and trace it with something. make sure it not backwards, double check it, you don't want to have to buy a new visor. then just cut and fit the transmitter inside the visor foam. Then i sewed it up with a needle and transparent plastic thread. if done right it would look almost factory.:thumbup::p

http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i2...t/PIC_0060.jpg
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GOOD LUCK, any questions or comments please ask.

looks great, clean install :thumbup:

how did u get power to it?

^ the power is spliced to the wire inside that goes to the light for the mirror. It's a constant 12V

oo nice work

Very nice work, great mod! Great deal for $5 plus some Martha Stewart time!

Better watch out, other members are going to be asking you to knit them up some mittens and socks and little scull caps for their babies.

^ Thank you Dave! Crochet visor covers optional.

i still wonder why the sc came with everything, and that simple thing was the only thing missing haha. nice find and looks great!

oh btw.... so when you coming down again?

seriously!:egads:

I'm actually done coming to LA except if my girl can come with me! :thumbup:

dang! nice find! definitely bookmarking this..something very useful. ive always wanted one of these..but thought i had to use the stock sc one..nice to know the others work well too! now just to reverify my garage works with that garage opener..definitely beats the big giant remote i have =)

The home-links support regular and rolling code garages. Mine is a genie rolling code and works great, I really looked forward and did this Mod because my opener was making me very mad, kept getting batteries for the thing and this way its sleek, OEM and works alot better.

Nice install man! Looks awesome. I'll have to come check it out sometime this week. If I had a garage I would do this for sure lol. How long did it take you to put in?

took 2 hours maybe a little bit more. sorry i did not snap pictures in the process. its hard for me to stop what im doing and take pics. i get too, into the project and cant stop till its done.

Very nice Pirooz.... Too bad I don't have a garage...

Hey after installing it how did you program it ??

nice work. I was just thinking about this yesterday because my opener was giving me fits as well...that opener sux!!!

^ I'm very sure you were!... NOT LOLOLOL

TO PROGRAM!:

-You hold 2 outside buttons for 45 seconds it resets everything.
-hold button you wanna program while holding garage door remote 2 inches away from it.
-when it blinks faster you let go every thing.
-if you have rolling code after that you press the learning button on the garage door motor in the garage and then press the home link button you just programmed 1-3 times when garage door closes you are good to go!

Very VERY nice. great find man!

nice find. i need to do this with all of my cars.

Thanks guys! I just programmed my girls house gate to it! Works like a charm! Rolling code or not, does it all!

Painted wood trim results!!
 

So the other day i was looking at my wood... trim and i was thinking wow that makes the inside of my car look OLD. so i decided to roll to the nearest kragen and see what types of paint i could buy and paint my trim with. i am very happy with the way my trim looks now. what do you guys think?
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http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i2...0/DSC00991.jpg

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So what paint did you decide? Looks good!

Yes Details Please!

Looks real good. I might have to do this to my wood this weekend.

it looks really good what did you use,any plans for the rest of the interior

not bad..whats the rest look like? is that black sparkle?

Looks good Pirooz! I might have to swing by and see this in person, but from the pics it looks damn good! How long did it take you?

looks really clean! Really updates the look of the interior. Had that black wood on my range rover. But not as cool as this of course :thumbup: What kind of paint and how long did it take you?

Looks great, nice color choice! What was the brand and name of the paint you used?

The rest of the plans include, the upper half of my interior being dyed black OEM style. with oem black carpet. i dono if i wanna go go full black interior, time will tell. This is spraypaint guys!!!!! rattle can...:eek2::eek2::eek2: i used duplicolor car paint. followed by clear coat. about 4 coats paint and 3 coats of clear after each 2 coat paint i wet sanded with 2000 grit. sand between clear coats with highest grit you can find end with untouched clear coat. OH IT TOOK ME 4 DAYS.

That turned out pretty well

Nice work!

found whats next on my to do list

Thats a nice little free mod. Nice gloss.