Steady week carrying on with the Caddy build, starting to slow down a little waiting on parts or supplies needed. But the front carpets, Touran bases & 6 speed gearbox landed Monday, so that let me get on with getting the dash & interior back together.
I also took all the interior plastics & painted them dark grey using a bumper paint. A close a match as possible to the OE trims & dash, whilst also being hard wearing, it won't just tarnish & flake as soon as I start dailying the van.
Carpets, seat bases & trims all installed
Wired in the Alpine head unit, GPS, DAB & Bluetooth mic all routed & mounted. I also Tee'd the speaker wiring, so it all runs through the Alpine amp in the back footwell. Tested it out and I'm real happy with the results
Will get some more info up once I have it all setup too.
I also removed the faded front bumper lower grilles, painting these in the black bumper paint. Look much better and will stay black, no need for trim restore products every wash!
So with the interior trims going in, it was time to mount up the ENDO tank fully, route the wiring & lines, make sure everything is sitting how I'd like it to.
All went pretty well and I love the look of the tank hanging.
The ply floor arrived too, so dropped that in place to see how it lines up. I'm wanting to make some nice tie down mounts, instead of the plain OE ones, so I'll start thinking about that next week.
Just got to finish up the wing mirrors now. I've drawn up a conversion bracket, which is being plasma cut by the guy who does all our fabrication work. Will get that from him this coming week and finalise mounting the wing mirrors, then I will plastic weld & smooth the outer caps, before painting in the same black the front grilles are done in.
So with the interior just waiting on the mirrors now, I started sorting out the rear brakes. The NSR was seized, handbrake cable was rusty inside & not working well, but the caliper mechanism had also seized up. So I stripped all the brakes down and started stripping the calipers ready for paint & a new seal kit.
Whilst the brakes were stripped, I also pulled out the rear arch liners & cleaned those up. Then scuffed back the metal & coated in underseal.
I'm also going to spray the inner arches with Lizard Skin, a product we came across at SEMA last year. It's a spray on sound insulation, they also do a spray on heat insulation too, but I'm just doing the sound to try and remove as much echo road noise as possible from the van.
Will also do the rear floor before putting the wood down and fixing that.
This is the Lizard Skin if you're interested in looking -
www.lizardskin.com
Thanks again for reading guys, looking forward to tying this build up more next week before getting it back on the road.