This past week I found some parts for my car to fix some of the little annoyences that an old car have. The parts I was going to replace or fix were:

1. Dash
2. Dash Clock
3. Heater
4. Trunk Carpet
5. Passenger Sun visor
6. Passenger mirror
7. Engine prop
8. Missing spare tire
9. Knocking from front sway bar

I was also going to add the following things that were not on my car already:

1. Power Windows
2. Power mirrors
3. Power door locks
4. Rear sway bar

I found most of the parts at a very good price from someone on the mr2 forums. When I went to pick up the parts I found out that he did not have the Passenger Sun visor that was in good condition so I didn’t get that. He also didn’t have any truck carpet so I didn’t get that either. I soon found out that my rear shock towers do not have the tabs needed to bolt on the rear sway bar. The other option I would have is take the shock towers out of doner car but that would be more work than I originally planned. I was pleased to find that he had the spare tire and engine prop (which sorta worked). So I drove over to Rey’s house and started to take parts off of my car to prepare for the new parts.

I took off the dash and one of the doors and realized I may have a bit of a problem. The problem i ran into was that my doors do not have holes to pass the wires through for the power windows and power door locks. So I will have to cut holes in my doors to make a place for the wires to come through. Or I could just swap the whole door and cut a hole on the door pilar of the body to allow the wires to come through. Either way if I wanted to have power doors I would need to cut the body. So that is what I did. I got the drivers side cut and I plug in the door and the door locks don’t work, the window doesn’t roll down. That was very annoying. I have no idea what is going on just yet but here is my checklist at the end of the weekend.

1. Dash
2. Dash Clock
3. Heater (I ran out of time)
4. Trunk Carpet (not available)
5. Passenger Sun visor (not available)
6. Passenger mirror (but this may be temporary)
   
7. Engine prop
8. Missing spare tire
9. Power Windows (drivers side is in but doesn’t work)
10. Power mirrors (drivers side is in but doesn’t work)
11. Power door locks (drivers side is in but doesn’t work)
12. Rear sway bar (if it is still available in a week I will probably swap everything to get this)
13. Knocking from front sway bar

In all I actually feel kinda sad because for some reason I feel like I messed up my car. Really it is just because the door doesn’t work. If the door did work I would feel a whole lot better at this point. I guess you can’t have everything go according to plan.

I also got really far in my MythTV box. I got everything to compile and it was looking great. Some of the folders didn’t install the same way the tutorial said but for the most part things were just working. I never tried to startup mythtvfrontend because I was still working on the MythWeb portion and when I restarted the computer I got an error. NOOOO!!! I was so far and now I have no idea what is causing the error. Ubuntu won’t even start. I am going to try a live CD to see if I can’t fix the problem and if that doesn’t work I will start searching forums. I have come to far to have the computer die on me now.