Interior removal

Today we had a slightly lazy morning, but were out in the garage well before noon.

We started with getting pictures of some of the piled up parts, then got on with removing the head unit, AC controls (annoying, with lots of mechanical cables this year), then moved on to the seats, passenger airbag, dashboard, carpet, and some of the other plastic panels. Made sure to spend lots of time tagging each connection I undid. I think that box of 1000 twist tie tags may come in handy.

We got a JDM V8 STi dash with the car, which we verified works perfectly, so we may use it in our 818. It has some neat features, like a user-selectable shift light. We might need to do something about the speedo being in KPH, though!

JDM V8 STi cluster

OEM 02 cluster

We finished up for the day around 7:00, with a quick oil change on Tamra's car.

Tomorrow is autocross in the Miata! TONS of entries, around 130 pre-registered.