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Taking advantage of the warm weather here in SC (set a record of 74F yesterday!), I installed the 'biggest bang for the buck' stereo speaker mod this morning. Used 270uF, 63v non-polarized capacitors bought off Amazon. Got 5 capacitors for $10.50. What a difference in stereo sound!
I would recommed the following to others planning on doing this upgrade, if you intend to direct connect the wiring & capacitors using a crimp connector. Place the crimp connector on the exposed wiring and then insert the capacitor connection into the other end of the crimp connector. After the crimp connector is in place, crimp both ends to secure the connection. Even with twisting the exposed wiring, it is difficult to insert the wiring into the connector if the capacitor connection is inserted first.
Lost the only key to the black srt...and the rescue srt is down, and the limited roadster is not insured or tagged so I cant drive it...Guess it'll have to be the 08 Dodge Ram stick till I get my keys ordered from NW. I did get to check out the heated seats in the rare 39 degree weather this morning. It was niiiiice..Crossfire withdrawals will set in soon I am sure...Peace ..Happy Holidays.
I pulled mine out of the garage, started it up and let it run for about a half hour while I cleaned up the garage a bit. I really wanted to drive it but, to much rain runoff on the roads after two days of heavy rain. I am hoping that it dries out some by the end of the week. The new wheels, tires and rear lip look great csteve0355.
Did a partial change to the interior color of the SSB Coupe I bought back in May. The seat bolsters were pretty worn and just looked really tired and, since this car is all black inside (or whatever dark grey it's actually called) and my '05 Roadster has the nice dark/light grey two tone, I wanted to do something different. Having seen a lot of newer cars in a variety of paint colors with a saddle brown two tone interior, that's what I opted for. So, here's the finished product - seats pulled out and refinished in Luez Cinamon Brown, a BMW X5 factory color option, door panels done in a two tone with the same BMW color and the existing Crossfire factory color.
OK, so how did I do this? I've been talking to a company called ColorBond Paint for a couple of years at the SEMA show and finally decided to pull the trigger. This is basically a specialized spray paint designed specifically for leather, vinyl and even carpet. They are actually an approved Ford OEM supplier (took 'em 6 years to go through the process) and they private label to a bunch of places that sell leather dye and color change kits (Eastwood for one). Their demos and samples at their booth at SEMA have always impressed me and after some long discussions with the developer of the product (it's been around for almost 20 years now!!).
So the process is pretty straightforward - use their pre cleaner to deep clean the surface of any dirt, oils, silicones, waxes, etc and then basically just spray the product on like you would spray regular old spray paint. On harder surfaces, like the door panels, you need to spray their adhesion promoter first, let dry, then shoot the color. I pulled the seats out of the car and then used a plastic masking material for the seats to mask off the lower portions where the seat adjustment controls are mounted, and also to mask off the black plastic seat backs. I found that tucking the plastic in between the leather surface and these trim bits worked best.
The door panels were a bit trickier. After removing them from the car I found that I couldn't get any kind of masking tape to stick to them at all, even after using the cleaner. But since the door panels are made up of multiple pieces that are basically glued together on the back side, I discovered that I could take a wide masking tape (1.5" width) and using a bondo spreader I could force the tape inbetween the two sections and it stayed put extremely well. In some areas I needed a secondary plastic trim stick to force the gap open a bit, but it all worked out great. I then used the same sort of plastic masking material, taped down to the original wide masking tape I tucked into the gaps, and I was ready to shoot the adhesion promoter and the color. When done, the masking tape that was tucked into the gaps just pulled right out - no muss, no fuss.
The leather still feels like it always did, and I love the color combo - especially with the SSB paint!
I'd read a ton of reviews on this product in the past couple of years, including one where a magazine was so skeptical that they recolored a long piece of leather and then did everything they could to get the ColorBond product to fail - they pulled, tugged, scratched, even tied it in a knot - and the stuff stayed put. Crazy as it sounds, this stuff is the real deal. If you've got badly worn side bolsters and you want to restore them, it's very straightforward to return the seat to an as new condition. If you want to totally change the color, like I did, then this is a great option with awesome results.
NOTE: I have no affiliation whatsoever with ColorBond. I paid full retail for the products and received zero compensation for using it or posting this review.
I requested that Mike create a new thread to introduce this new custom interior mod he has had done.
It is now posted in the Interior section here on the forum
I filed new notches on the base of my HID bulbs at 180deg from the original tab. This rotates the bulb electrode out of the way of the reflector bown and eliminated the shadow cast in the headlight beam. Much better visibility and cutoff focus
1-5-2016
Tripped my tire pressure light, they looked fine, I bet the light will be off when I go home today.
Also for some dammned german reason, you can't use the high setting on heated seats when it is actually cold out. Both red LEDs flicker when pushed, on both seats. After a few minutes on LOW, I could select HIGH. I'll read up on it.
1-5-2016
Tripped my tire pressure light, they looked fine, I bet the light will be off when I go home today.
Also for some dammned german reason, you can't use the high setting on heated seats when it is actually cold out. Both red LEDs flicker when pushed, on both seats. After a few minutes on LOW, I could select HIGH. I'll read up on it.
Just because the light goes out does not mean the tires are at the correct pressure. For the light to come on it means that they were not at the correct pressure when the temperature was a bit higher.
That's what I believe anyway.
Just because the light goes out does not mean the tires are at the correct pressure. For the light to come on it means that they were not at the correct pressure when the temperature was a bit higher.
That's what I believe anyway.
I can mean many things unfortunately. I am assuming (with high confidence) that one or more of my tires were ever so slightly below threshold, and need bumped up for when it is 7 friggin degrees outside. Same thing happened the first time it was in the 20s. One other thing with the age of these cars is the 11-12 year old battery in the wheel transmitter could be weak enough to not work when frigid. Either way, I didn't feel like checking the pressure this morning, when I was sure that at worst they were a smidge low. Also the flashing lights on the seat heaters may be normal low startup voltage warning, not sure. All from the dammned cold, I'm not fully ready for this... https://www.crossfireforum.org/forum...s/icon_sad.gif
Re: What did you do to your Crossfire today?
