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Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Is It Screen Accurate? No. Does KITT Need It? YES!

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My latest conversion purchase is the Knight's head logo for the shifter knob. In the series the Pontiac logo normally found on the shift...
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Monday, May 28, 2012

POR-15 - Second Application

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After five hours we applied the second coat of POR-15. The second application took about an hour and a half. We definitely see the advantage...

POR-15 - First Application

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Everything dried overnight, so we were ready to rock and roll this morning. Sara went over the area thoroughly with her parts brush to loose...

Framed

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One of the small things needed for a conversion is the proper chrome frame for the license plate. I found a couple of sources online, but th...
Sunday, May 27, 2012

No Camping Memorial Day Weekend; Just Stripping, Cleaning And Prepping

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Our plan Saturday was to POR-Strip the entire interior of the car. We started on the front floor pans just below the firewall. We followed t...
Friday, May 25, 2012

There's Metal Under Here Somewhere

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Our second attempt at the POR-Strip yielded better results. We left the first application sit for 30 minutes and then brushed on a second ap...
Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Time To Paint Over Rust with POR-15

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The supplies I ordered from POR-15, Inc.  arrived this last week and over the weekend I started to experiment a little.  Here is what ...
Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Raising The Bar

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The garage was a mess of tools so I spent the night picking up after myself and then worked on separating the t-top bar from the car frame....
Sunday, May 6, 2012

More Grinding, Sanding, Scuffing, Cleaning And The T-Top Blues

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We spent today doing some more grinding and clean up of the floor pans and rear cargo area. We found out it does not need to be down to the...
Saturday, May 5, 2012

Happy Cinco de Mayo

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Today we continued to work on stripping the paint and removed all of the seam sealer from the interior.
Saturday, April 28, 2012

MiniMates And Hot Wheels

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My latest Knight Rider purchases :)

KITT's Shell Exposed

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KITT: Unharnessed (Part 2)

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Today we worked on removing the remaining harness wires from the doors. The cross car wiring door harness runs across the car just below the...
Monday, April 23, 2012

KITT: Unharnessed

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I spent the evening separating the interior wiring harness and fuse block from the engine bay side of the wiring harness. There was a modula...
Thursday, April 19, 2012

The F.L.A.G. Mobile Unit Support Team Expands Into A Two Stall Service Bay

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On Sunday we upgraded from a single stall garage to a double stall. The extra space will be great for working on KITT and give me a chance t...
Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Cleaning The Dash And Untangling The Wires, So Many Wires...

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This last weekend I removed the firewall. I worked on removing the wiring harness starting with the taillight harness and moving forward. S...
Sunday, April 8, 2012

Two Screws, Or Not Two Screws: That Was The Issue

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Those last two pesky screws in the dash occupied way, way too much of my time! I thought I would recap the various methods I tried over the ...
Monday, April 2, 2012

Hard Work And A Dash Of Persistence

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I have been busy since my last post researching the power mirror options available to these early third generation Trans Ams. I have the swi...
Sunday, March 18, 2012

Life In Plastic, It's Fantastic

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This weekend we decided we needed to clean up the work area and find a place to store the interior plastics. Sara cleaned all the trim piece...
Monday, March 12, 2012

Clues From The Past

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Sara made a list of everything we found under the car seats and center console. Although we made some money, unfortunately we did not find ...