I've been traveling for the last two weeks, but did get a Saturday + a few evenings to work on the car.
On the administrative side, California finally issued me a title for it which means I was then able to apply for a Washington title and get it registered so I can finally drive it on the street. Woohoo!
OK, first up was finishing up the interior (at least as far as I have parts to do now). I got the hatch trim and grab handles/lights all dyed black and installed in the car. All lights are operational, which is important for my plan to be able to sleep in the thing. I'm really happy with how the whole grab handle/light assembly came out. It was worth the effort of completely disassembling them for the color change.
When I went to install the sunroof control panel I discovered it is too small! Maybe it came out of a 90 or something?
I also got the rear door cards & speakers installed. At this point the only interior trim I'm missing is a rear seat back and the carpet pieces that cover the rear strut towers. Anyone have some they want to part with? I'm not picky about color!
With that done, I started work on accessorizing the exterior. I wanted to mount a shovel, ax, and off road light on the basket. In looking around for bar mounts/clamps, the cheapest I found were about $10 each on Amazon/eBay. Since I planed to use ~10 of them that was way out of budget, so I found a cheaper alternative: electrical conduit clamps. Paint them black and they work great! Used these to attach Quick Fist shovel and axe mounts to the basket.
Next up is lighting. I considered going with one of the fancy new LED light bars that have become popular for trucks, but decided they are too modern looking and wouldnt really fit the aesthetic of the vehicle. Instead I went with five 27 W round LED lights plus two square LED driving lights to go in the bumper for fog lights.
For mounting, I used more of the conduit clamps and welded them to the bolt-on brackets that came with the lights so I could mount them to the basket.
I wired the fog lights in to the factory fog light connectors so that was simple enough, but for the off-road lights I really needed a separate circuit so they can be controlled independently of the fogs and headlights. And of course since I like things that look OEM/factory integrated, I decided to use another OEM fog light switch on the dash to control them. Luckily I had a switch + pigtail in my parts stash. I got this handy little sealed fuse/relay box out of an old SAAB at the junkyard. Just need to make a mounting plate for it to attach to the (now unused) ABS pump bracket.
And finally, mud flaps! I got the "large" size universal ones from RallyArmor. I did a little massaging of the front wheel arch with a deadblow hammer to make some more room, then used a combination of existing fender liner screws + plastic "christmas tree" clips to attach them. I like it.
And finally, here it is all together! I also swapped out the B4 underheadlight trim for the factory B3 one; I think it looks a bit less ghetto fabulous this way.
