Stage One Weight Reduction and My Indoor Pool

"That Bastard Kurtis - An Attempt to Standardize My Username Across Platforms" (thatbastardkurtis5) 07/05/2015 at 15:03 • Filed to: Prettysurethatsafreshwaterpondbro, Lemons, Because racecar

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We have relatively nice weather today, so I thought I’d start removing things from the Saturn in earnest. I pulled the headliner yesterday, and today I’d quite like to get the carpet out. The passenger side floor is SOAKED.

But as you can see, the floor underneath is extremely solid and rust free. I was worried because the car has been pretty thickly undercoated, so I’m glad my fears of trapped water leading to floor rot were unfounded.

The reason for my indoor pool was the sunroof. The weather stripping had failed, and my friend had caulked it to try and reseal it. It maybe held up for a little while, but the (indoor) caulk dried out and lead to my gross moldy carpets. Here’s my solution:

The end plan is to remove the sunroof and weld sheet metal in its place, so for now the answer is duct tape. The car isn’t driven anywhere, so I don’t need to worry about it blowing off (not that it would anyway, I used this same roll of duct tape to tape up my wife’s ex-minivan’s moonroof the same way...it didn’t fail for another six months until it did so, spectacularly, on the highway).

Once I get the carpets out, I’ll get to work on the door panels (I’m thinking plastic sheet and fabric door pulls on the inside) and dashboard. I’m pretty high on this little piece of junk, so I’ll keep taking pictures.

Steve in Manhattan > That Bastard Kurtis - An Attempt to Standardize My Username Across Platforms 07/05/2015 at 15:13

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Prepping this for racing/Lemons?

TheOnelectronic > Steve in Manhattan 07/05/2015 at 15:17

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He is, IIRC

Steve in Manhattan > TheOnelectronic 07/05/2015 at 15:23

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Nice.

That Bastard Kurtis - An Attempt to Standardize My Username Across Platforms > Steve in Manhattan 07/05/2015 at 15:23

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That’s the plan. My buddy gave me the car in hopes that we run it in one of the local LeMons races next year, probably Thompson CT. Apprently these Saturns make decent little racers.

LongbowMkII > That Bastard Kurtis - An Attempt to Standardize My Username Across Platforms 07/05/2015 at 15:29

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Think of something creative for the hole in your roof. Do you have a theme?

That Bastard Kurtis - An Attempt to Standardize My Username Across Platforms > LongbowMkII 07/05/2015 at 15:37

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The theme is probably my biggest issue right now that doesn't have to do with where I'm going to find the money to build the car. Like I’ve always wanted to be a race car driver, and I think for at least the first time out, I’m incapable of not taking the car and myself a little bit seriously. Right now the idea is just to livery the car in our racing team’s colors (the white, blue, and red of Team imMobil Racing) and go from there.

G_Body_Man: Sponsored by the number 3 > That Bastard Kurtis - An Attempt to Standardize My Username Across Platforms 07/05/2015 at 15:45

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imMobil 0 snake oil?

That Bastard Kurtis - An Attempt to Standardize My Username Across Platforms > G_Body_Man: Sponsored by the number 3 07/05/2015 at 15:47

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Yeah, we’ll do something like that. The first car we had last year was a Merkur, so it was going to get a Peter Brock Sierra paint scheme with imMobil on it. We’ll probably do the same scheme here, keep it basic.

1111111111111111111111 > That Bastard Kurtis - An Attempt to Standardize My Username Across Platforms 07/05/2015 at 15:51

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Nice! Tag these “ lemons build “ or something...then it’ll be easy to find them all...

That Bastard Kurtis - An Attempt to Standardize My Username Across Platforms > 1111111111111111111111 07/05/2015 at 15:57

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Good call.

Steve in Manhattan > That Bastard Kurtis - An Attempt to Standardize My Username Across Platforms 07/05/2015 at 16:08

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What about a planetary theme? “If Saturn is a planet, so is fucking Pluto!”

Or there’s a planetary gear joke in there, but probably too subtle.

That Bastard Kurtis - An Attempt to Standardize My Username Across Platforms > 1111111111111111111111 07/05/2015 at 16:08

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Added tag ‘lemons’ because lemons, and tag ‘because racecar’ because racecar.

That Bastard Kurtis - An Attempt to Standardize My Username Across Platforms > Steve in Manhattan 07/05/2015 at 16:10

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“Saturn: It’s better than Uranus.”

Steve in Manhattan > That Bastard Kurtis - An Attempt to Standardize My Username Across Platforms 07/05/2015 at 16:16

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Nice.

Or, “Saturn - it’s faster than Uranus.”

AthomSfere > That Bastard Kurtis - An Attempt to Standardize My Username Across Platforms 07/05/2015 at 18:56

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We stopped calling it that, too many jokes. It’s called Urectum now...