Leaky T-Tops....Again

Yep. Time to break out the silicone goo and re-seal where the window meets the gasket. Leaks are no bueno.

Colored Interior Lighting

I decided that my boring yellowish bland light for the inside of my car needed to be changed. Solution? Another Wal-Mart run! I bought some transparent colored plastic dividers for a binder, you know, for dividing subjects in a notebook. I took the blue one and cut a piece that fits in the light cover, layered it twice, and now I have blue interior lighting! It looks pretty awesome and tomorrow night I will try red and see which one I like better.

NOTE: Pictures are coming

Interesting Speaker Issue

I noticed that the front left dash speaker wasn't putting out any sound worth talking about so I figured it was blown. When I took off the plastic cover, I saw why. Instead of a matching OEM paper cone speaker, there was a tiny tweeter connected to a splitter held in place with a homemade bracket. My solution? A trip to my local Wal-Mart provided a $7 speaker and some wire spade ends was the (temporary) answer. I had to cut off 2 of the mounting tabs on the speaker for it to fit but it works great. Hooray cheap solutions! This is of course until I can afford nicer speakers listed in the "wishes" post.

This is the tweeter and splitter that was in there:


And this is the cheap walmart speaker I replaced it with....notice the one side being held in with a zip-tie because it's not a perfect fit for the screw

MR2 Wishes Updated

For realzies this time


Momo Jet Steering Wheel



Kenwood KFC-1061S



Blaupunkt GTx352


RAM Cupholder



OMZ Racing Seats


Kumho Ecsta AST Tires


EBC Brakes GD582



Cusco Rear Strut Bar

Stereo Swap Successful

I swapped the stereo from the Lumina (Pioneer DEH-P3800MP plus iPod cable) with the stereo from the MR2 (Kenwood KDC-2011S) so now the Pioneer is in the MR2 and the Kenwood is in the Lumina, which means iPod connection in my car. Next step, speakers. I'm looking at Kenwood KFC-1061S for the front and Blaupunkt GTx352 for the back. Even though they are small, they should be a heck of a lot better than the 20-year-old factory paper cone speakers.

Mojo

A friend of mine showed me this cool program called "Mojo". Basically you add friends into a buddy-list-ish kind of interface that then allows you to browse, listen to, and download songs from their iTunes library through another iTunes-ish interface. My username is SkylineJeeTeeAre. Watch the videos on the bottom of this blog to see what's up.

NOTE: these videos show Mojo running on Macintosh OSX 10.5 Leopard. Mojo is also available for OSX 10.4 Tiger and Microsoft Windows XP or Vista.

MR2 is GO

I took it by Sears this morning for an alignment and now it's workin fine. It still pulls slightly to the left. Next projects: radio transplant and fixing the right front shake.