CUSTOM TRUNK AND CARPET
I made some wood panels and covered them in loop pile carpet. I will probably get another piece and just lay it over the floor so that you don't see any seams. That will be sometime in the future. It's not a show trunk so I'm not too concerned. I covered another panel with the carpet and mounted the amp to it.

NEW STEREO, AMP, SPEAKERS

This stuff is nothing fancy but it's better than any of the stock stuff. I hook up my ipod and rock out while I'm driving along. I've got two 3.5" speakers where the stock dash speaker goes, a tweeter in each kick panel, and two 5.5"s and 6X9"s in a panel I made where the trap door is (didn't cut stock trap door). I covered the speaker panel in black vinyl. Stero is a from Custom Auto Sound. They've had a bad rap in the best but I've had no problems. I suspect that they improved on quality after their initial failures.

STEERING BOX REBUILD

I removed my steering box and sent it off to stangerssite.com for rebuild. They said that it was in pretty decent shape. I don't think it had ever been out of the car. There's a reason for that: it's a little bit of a pain to remove one. I removed the front seat, steering wheel, steering column, export brace, clutch equalizer bar, and of course unhook the pitman arm and remove the mounting bolts. I was then able to lift the steering box, push it up to the firewall so the still attached to the box pitman arm cleared the exhaust manifold, rotate it so the pitman arm was pointing up and then pull it out between the shock tower and valve cover. Stangerssite.com disassembles, cleans, replaces worn parts, and blasts and paints your box.

box removed

I didn't take any before pics but just picture a dirty, never removed steering box and now look at this: