Finaly new paint

This what I have been waiting for! Car is been sanded and I feel so good. That horroble old paint is GONE. First evening (will be doing this after work myself with my cousin) we got rear sanded completely and most of hood. Today I hope to get it so much more, that can get black parts painted with black epoxy primer. Sunday it should be painted also white with white primer.

Rear was simple to take parts. After pic taken, I removed those bumper moldings and ordered new ones from eBay.

Fron bumper molding will also be changed new. Front lights also come new. Hood ornament is still in good condition

After taking side moldings off, there is ofcourse lot of glue left. That was taken care with toffe-grinder.

Sanding is pretty easy, there no rust in this car. Pictures are marked with all dents; after sanding its hard to find them.

In this picture, black primer is on. Looks much better now.
Next it needs to be sanded smooth.

Then primer was sanded and dents fixed. Those spots needed to be primered again. Next step is black paint. It will be covered, clearcoat comes after the whole car is painted.

Getting ready for white.

Boxes just keep arriving

Got the box from US, that my friend sent me.
Even the consol is not ment to be used like this (its not a perfect fit for panels), I managed to assembly all necessary switches in to it. Just needed to be little creative.

Even the strobe light box fitted in back. Few more wires and it will b nice clean compact box.

First one is traffic advisor control. Next is empty place, but there will be Lightbar controls soon. Then switches for front and rear LEDs, grill lights and strobes. Little red button is for strobe pattern. Siren also has two switches on right, but they are not in use yet.

In rear I managed to fit strobe box.

Removing lower dash

I needed to get under dash, so had to remove it. It was much more simple then I thought.
It is screwed from the bottom and on top its just clips. I took off the black plastic thats around gauge cluster and that square panel that you can see on pic.

For some reason some of the screws were 6mm and some were 7mm. I think its been on and off few times and original screws got lost...

But very simple job, anyone can do it.

four on bottom and one screw left under fuse cover. When they are all off, just pull hard from bottom. Top will com off from clips and now you can remove it.
 

Evening was so nice and warm that I also added remote control to central lock system. Also very easy job. Got cheap unit from eBay, only 20 euros.
The switch on door has input positive wire and two output positive wires (other opens and other closes).
Just added open + and close + from that remote unit to these wires and thats it! Works great!

I had a bit more time left before "Chuck" started on TV, so added LEDs to new grill. It was realy a good evening.

Sorry about bad video, will make better when its assembled to car.

Work, work, work

Sunday was nice and warm (finaly), so I took all door panels off. It was farely easy job to do.  Car is gettting closer to paint booth.

Here is a Police Cat at work... No drugs detected. And no catfood eaither, thats why the long face.

Ready for paint

Finaly garage is empty and I can start paint job! Here are final pictures of car before new paint.

Strobes please

Yes, I know LAPD had wig-wags on front lights but I want strobes. And if I want something, I will do it...

So started this work by first getting a decent looking kit from eBay. Seller " Zipmotor " had it for 86,99, which I think was very reasonable price. It has 6x20W strobes, which wont be super bright, but they will do fine (wont be used professionaly).

First I took wires behind rear seats and made holes to rear lights so i get strobes in to them. Not a  big job, just needed a 25mm hole and of course didn´t had the tool so had the get it just for this job.

Bigger job will be taking wires thrue wall to engine compartment. Have to get 4x3 wires thrue it.

This was the kit from eBay.

There was a huge pile of crap behind the seat. I have new carpet coming, so will clean that better  later. This is sellers video in youtube

 

VIN decoded

Today i decoded my cars VIN.

This is what i found out: - country of origin: Usa

- company built by: Genera Motors
- make or division: Chevrolet
- carline/series: Caprice sedan
- body style: 4 door sedan
- restrain codes: Active (manual) belts w/driver & passenger air bags
- Engine type: LT1 5.7L 260 HP @ 5000, 330 lb-ft @ 3200
- model year: 1994
- plant: Arlington ( that explains sticker on door " built in Texas by Texans"

This information is from sticker in trunk:

Options

- VK3 license plate bracket front
- UL5 radio delete, speakers remain
- AA7 windows, power with driver express down and passenger lock-out switch on drivers door
-KDcooler, auxiliary external transmission oil
- 6A3 covering, rubber floor replaces production carpeting
- 6B2 handles, rear door inoprative ( doors can only open fom outside)
- 6E2 keys, single key system
- 7Y6 lamp, inoperative dome
- 7X9 spotlight provision, left and right hand
- WX7 wiring, auxiliary speaker.

And ofcourse LT1 and 9C1 can be found, we all know what that means.