Haven't posted in a while, I got pretty busy with family get-togethers for a few weeks in November so I had to work on my car off and on whenever I could. The new thing I was hinting at is being worked on now, and here it is. The last picture I posted was super cryptic but the vent is the little bit of black seen through the windshield. It's a fiberglass extractor vent made by Ken Suen (bigredksr on Instagram), he has a 9th Gen Civic that ran in Global Time Attack.
I was going to cut the hole myself (I even went and bought an angle grinder) but it only took about five seconds before my garage started smelling horrible so I decided not to. Instead my mechanic came by with his F-150 and took the hood to his shop. He did a preliminary cut the size of the vent opening but it's going to get much larger to fit the actual vent in. And while he's at it I also asked him to weld up the badge notch so I can finally go badgeless. I already ordered a new grille and a tow hook plate mount to relocate my front plate.
Aside from this I've continued working on the interior. I've taken the radio out and I'm going to buy a Samsung tablet to go over the hole and to use for a few things (data logging, podcasts, lap videos, pictures of my car, track-side entertainment). I'm thinking of having a piece of carbon cut that I can screw into the holes that held the radio and then using magnets to mount the tablet onto it. All the carpet and insulation is out except a tiny piece of the carpet by the gas pedal. I figured out how to remove the dead pedal so I got that part of the carpet out but for now I just cut around the gas pedal and left that bit in. The center console is out. You guys were right, the armrest/bin part is really heavy so I won't be putting it back in. I'm just going to put my carbon console back but leave the back end of it open.
I think my next move is to take out the rear speakers. I want a way to listen to podcasts on the way to and from the track so I'm thinking of getting some bluetooth speakers and mounting them to the cage using a roll bar mount. That way I can mount them behind my seat and just take them out on track.
I also need to pull out the HVAC vents that lead to the back of the car. There's the one vent running through the center console but there's also the two that go to the rear footwells. They actually run down the sides of the center console, into the front footwells and under the front seats so without carpet you're basically standing on them. I'm thinking I'll cut them where they run down the center console so they'll still function as front footwell vents
This was how it all looked last weekend
