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As you can see, this has been a slow project, but we're finally getting somewhere. I have more plans and now have a speaker list and screen size. This is going to be a 7.2.4 home theater system, and that's really about all you can fit into the room. Again, my primary focus is on music and sound quality so the video part takes a second seat. 🙂 But with a 9 foot wide screen and the correct projector, that's not going to be too bad either. Here's the room. To get your bearings, the top of the image is the outside wall and those red diagonal lines are the windows. The right side of the image is the front of the room and the bottom of the room is open to a hallway. You can start to see some of the challenges with sound management since the room has glass on one side and open on the opposite side. Those speakers you see out in the middle of the room will be in the ceiling and the speakers at the top and bottom (either side of the sitting area) are the left and right surrounds. On the back wall are two rear channel speakers and a subwoofer (actually a dual cone subwoofer, more on the speakers below). Here's a side view (left) looking toward the windows. They will have a motorized blackout shade that we can control remotely. There are actually 5 treys in the ceiling. There is one large one and four other ones inside. There will be LED lights that will make the treys look like they are floating below the ceiling. The right image is the front of the room. It shows the three front channel speakers and the other dual cone subwoofer. Everything is hidden, you won't see any speakers or anything else. The projector screen is 9 feet across but the height will be determined on whether I go with 16:9 or 2.35 aspect ratio, and I still haven't decided on that, nor has the projector been picked out. If I go with 2.35 the shelf on top stays, if I go 16:9 it has to go. The side view looking out the windows (the three windows have shades over them) is on the left, with the front of the room to the right. The right side image is looking at the front of the room. I finally have a speaker list! YEA!!! Front Channel - All three speakers for the front channel will be identical, and I'll be using the Wisdom Audio Sage Cinema Line 2 speakers. The center speaker will be behind the screen while the other two to the sides. I will need a total of 6 channels of amplification to power these speakers as each speaker needs two dedicated channels. SAGE CINEMA LINE 2 - Wisdom Audio WWW.WISDOMAUDIO.COM Targeting high-performance media rooms and private cinemas, The Sage Cinema Series models are dedicated to hidden installations behind projection screens and fabric walls. The Line 2 features the award-winning Sage 24” Planar Magnetic Drivers, and six long linear excursion, high-output woofers. The Line 2 delivers a new level in... Surrounds and ceiling speakers - There are two side surrounds, two rear surrounds, and four ceiling speakers, and they will all be the Wisdom Audio Sage Cinema Point 2 V2 speakers. I like the idea of keeping the same speakers for all the surrounds and ceiling. I will need 8 channels of amplification to power these. SAGE CINEMA POINT 2 V2 - Wisdom Audio WWW.WISDOMAUDIO.COM The Sage C20i offers the ultimate high-end audiophile loudspeaker in a slim and stylish design that fully integrates into any home. Perfectly suited for home theater and media rooms, C20i produces the highest level of sonic refinement and performance available from an in-wall speaker. The Sage C20i includes a large planar magnetic driver – and... Subwoofers - There will be two subwoofers in the room, one in the front and one in the rear. Each cabinet contains two 15" cones and a 4000 watt amp, so a total of 8000 watts of bass power. We will be crossing over to the subs at 80 hz. SubMersive F2+ & F2-Slave Subwoofer – Seaton Sound, Inc SEATONSOUND.NET Ours will be hidden so we'll just get the plain black version. They do make prettier versions though. 🙂 They also make other models of subwoofers. Main Processor - Of course the main processor was decided right up front, and that is the Trinnov Altitude 16. Hands down the best processor in the world. Plus I am thrilled to have the best calibrator in the world coming to calibrate the room. His name is Adam Pelz and he's the expert when it comes to managing the Trinnov Processor, and he's worked extensively with Wisdom Audio Speakers. To give you an idea of his demand, he's in Bahrain right now doing a calibration. 🙂 Trinnov | 20-Channel Reference Immersive Sound AV Processor WWW.TRINNOV.COM The Altitude16 builds on the success of the Altitude32 and Trinnov's exclusive platform with 20-channel immersive sound decoding and best-in-class Room Correcti Amplifiers - It will come down to one (or both) amp series in their line. I will need 11 channels of ~500 watts each, so 5,500 watts of power. That doesn't include the subwoofers. AT54X Series - Amplifier Technologies Inc. ATI-AMP.COM These amps come with 1 to 4 channels of amplification, each channel making 500 watts of power. This was going to be the amp I was going to use and may still be. I would need three of these. But... these are an option I am seriously considering. Signature Series 6000 - Amplifier Technologies Inc. ATI-AMP.COM These come with 1 to 7 channels of amplification. It makes slightly less power (450 watts) into 4 ohms (which is the impedance of all the speakers) than the other amp, but these are sonically better amps. I could get away with two of the 7 channel amps. I need to talk to Adam and Shawn to see if this power output would work ok with the main speakers, and make sure I can achieve the required sound levels. Time to start ordering equipment! Projector Last but not least, we've settled on the JVC DLA-NZ9 projector. Since we have a bright room, I needed a projector that could give decent light without always closing the blackout shades, and this new JVC projector fits the bill.

The door for the refrigerator has arrived and they should be bringing that out to install on Monday. I have 5 more boxes of reclaimed wood (~66 sq ft) coming and that should arrive on Wednesday and hopefully the cedar trim should be here this week as well. I didn't need the extra wood until we started filling in the storage area, but based on the way it's looking, it was worth it. Other than framing in the new door, we're at a standstill until the all of the wood arrives. I'll pick up the paint early this week and we could actually go ahead and fix and paint the side walls and ceiling if the painters can work it in. I'd really love to get that done. The inset area is really looking good, now I have to figure out what to do with it. 🙂 It's certainly too nice to put the storage tubs back in there. 🙂 I have some ideas but I need to think on it for a while. The black on the walls is roofing felt that goes down behind the wood. The wood is thin and has some holes in it, so you either need to paint the wall behind it or use the felt to get a dark background. The closet doors will be painted the trim color as well as the louvered door that will cover the the refrigerator/freezer.

A few more updates. We're going to make a change to the trim color to make it darker, as I am not pleased with the color we have now and I already have the new color picked out. The wainscoting on the side walls is done, and the focus now is on the back wall. I had plans on adding barn doors over the storage area, but after seeing how it looks with the wood on it, we're decided to move the tubs and rack someplace else and skip the barn doors. So now I have another area I can decorate. 🙂 It's pretty wide, it had that 90x90" steel storage rack in it. Here's what the back wall looks like so far. The entire wall will be covered in this wood. We have a door ordered to cover the refrigerator. I really like this area now and it would be a shame to cover it up with a rack and storage tubs. The still have to do the side walls in the area as well as the rest of the wall. This is looking back toward the other end. Those walls are done except for paint (trim color). The doors will be painted the trim color as well. The ceiling will be a midnight blue called "In the Navy" (SW 9178 from Sherwin-Williams) and the trim is called "Cyberspace" (SW 7076 Sherwin-Williams). The walls above the wainscoting will be "Real Red" SW 6868. I mounted the neon to get the placement correct, and of course it will come back down in order to paint. I had a picture framed (24x32) of one of the cars I use to compete in (still do every now and then) and I have another one picture the same size (of a different car) at the framers right now. It will go to the left of the door you see in the picture (far left). The opposing wall will have 6 pictures that are created using 3D acrylic, and those pictures have shipped and I should have them on Monday. /images/logo.png Acrylic Prints | Highest Quality Photo Acrylic Prints - Artbeat Studios WWW.ARTBEATSTUDIOS.COM Face Mounted Acrylic Prints from Artbeat Studios for artists and photographers that want to offer high end museum-quality prints to their customers. Upload your photos and we'll print and ship to your door.

The floors have been completed (except maybe for a small closet area) and the wainscoting is going up but we've hit a roadblock. We're going to be using cedar trim for those areas that need it, and we can't get it right now. So the back wall is still not completed since that is where most of the trim goes. We still have to install the baseboards (cedar) and then all the cedar has to be stained a relatively dark color. Here's the way it looks so far. The black you see where the baseboard goes is roofing felt that goes on behind the wainscoting. The wood is very thin and is rustic, so it has holes and knots and the felt covers the white of the walls. The darker trim and baseboard (dark gray) will create more of a divide between the wall and floor for it doesn't look like they just run together. The wall above the wainscoting will be a red similar to the color of the car and the ceiling will be a midnight (almost black) blue. The garage doors will be painted the trim color. I like the way they covered the stairs that lead to the office above the garage.

Thursday, October 28 The wainscoting arrived today, all 360 square feet of it. It's reclaimed wood planks in 3"-5" widths You can see that the wainscoting and the floor match pretty well. You can also see that the floor is not yet completed. 🙂 Installation instructions and tips.

Tuesday, October 26 There are some edges left to complete as well as the storage areas, but the floor is mostly done. Wood for the wainscoting will arrive Friday and hopefully that will start to go on the walls next week. That entire back wall that you see in this first image will be covered with the same reclaimed wood as the wainscoting. Barn doors will cover the storage area and a louvered door will cover the refrigerator. The trim around the closet door will come off and will be replaced using the reclaimed wood. THe sink and vanity will go where the garbage can is on the right wall. It is starting to look more like a room than a garage. 🙂

October 26 Installation is moving along. The floor should be done today.

October 24 Wainscoting has been ordered and will arrive next Friday, and they will be here Monday to install the floor. This is what I'll be using for the wainscoting. It's 3", 4", and 5" reclaimed wood. It will be installed horizontally and have chair rail type border across the top that will be painted the trim color.

October 23 - Friday 1200 lbs of flooring arrive. They will be here Monday to get it installed.

October 17 A piece of neon arrived today and it looks awesome! I had to hold it up on the wall where it is going to go and it is perfect fit. You see it as soon as you open the door to walk out into the garage. Even though it has a pull cord to turn it on and off, I really need to add a Control4 switch so that the pull cord can be hidden. You don't want to run the neon any longer than you need it to be lit in order to make it last. The flooring arrives this Friday and we did decided to use the RaceDeck Smoked Oak flooring that looks like this. The vanity and sink have been ordered and this is the one we are getting. The vanity is 36" wide (38" including the top). The sink will be mounted on the left side instead of the right that you see in the picture and the sink is 19" antique hammered copper. I hope to mount a spigot on the left side (the side you see in this image) so that I can hook up a hose to a hot water source for washing the cars. We have also decided to use barn doors on the back wall to cover the storage area. I really struggled with this decision since these aren't cheap. The deciding factor was the fact that we wanted to do something different on the back wall, and the door style would go perfect with the wainscoting and the floor. Plus, I was going to need custom doors anyway since the opening is 83". The wood color will be similar to what, but we will need to have two doors. Each door needs to be about 44" wide (so it covers the trim), so they aren't small. I won't be using "wheels" as large as what you see here since I don't have a lot of space between the door trim and the ceiling. The doors come with a header board (that matches the doors) that the track mounts to, and there has to be a minimum of 6.5" between the door trim and ceiling to put that. The actual door "style" is like this. Also, notice the smaller wheels on top than the picture above. Ours will be the same size wheels but black. All door trim/screws will be black. We are still working on the colors, but we have it narrowed down. The ceiling is going to be a color like what you see here, something like a midnight blue. When done, the ceiling will just fade away under the LED lights. Trim color will be some shade of a darker gray. This is called Forged Steel. So that leaves the wall area above the wainscoting (which will be a rustic lapboard). We are currently thinking something like this. I'm working on some ideas for the walls that primarily involve pictures, but I need to get with Amanda to talk about those and get her opinion. I also trying to come up with a way to display some trophies that I have, but I'll figure that our later.

October 4 The demolition started today. Before... After... The baseboard was pulled up around the entire wall, that will be pre-painted and put on after the floor is installed so painting won't mess up the floor which tucks up underneath the baseboard. The areas of the sheetrock that will be exposed have to be repaired and the wainscoting needs to go on before the floor goes in. Right now it takes two weeks to get the floor but I need to time it so it's not sitting outside for very long. The sink and vanity will take a little longer but it needs to go in after the floor goes down anyway. We have a new idea for the back wall and how to cover the storage rack as well as how we want to cover that wall. 🙂 More on that coming up... 🙂

October 3 In the garage is a white tub sink that is very useful, but also very unattractive, so I want to replace that with some more fitting for the new room. Notice I didn't call it a garage. 🙂 LOL! You can see the sink in this image. While it's VERY functional, it is very ugly. One nice thing I do like about it is that I can hook up a hose to the faucet and get hot water to wash the cars when it's cold out. That comes in VERY handy. So to replace that, these are what I'm thinking about. I would get a 36" wide version (the current sink is about 2 feet wide and 2 feet deep). I would also get the sink mounted to the left or right of the cabinet instead of the center so I can have some drawer space for cleaning items etc. The other thing I will do is add a spigot on the left side of the cabinet so I could still use a hose for hot water. Gotta have my hot water. 😉 You have a choice for sinks and you can even get it with no sink, but I like the hammered copper. Rustic Reclaimed Barn Wood Sink Center Bathroom Vanity LOGFURNITUREPLACE.COM Rustic Real Log Bathroom Vanity 24" - 42" WOODLANDCREEKFURNITURE.COM This Olde Towne, real wood bathroom vanity will take you back to a simpler, more rustic era. The guys may be out here tomorrow to start ripping the shelves off the wall and start patching some holes where the electrical work was done. We haven't decided on the final wainscoting for the wall, so I need to get with Amanda about that. The baseboards have to be removed and raised so the new floor can slide underneath, and those will be painted before they go back on the wall. Amanda has my floor sample and is working on a color scheme for the room. We know the ceiling is going to be dark, and we've initially talked about a really dark blue (think planetarium blue) so that the ceiling just fades away. We're making progress but it's never fast enough. 🙂 While we're redesigning this room, I also have a company designing our new media room, we have new motorized shades coming for the big windows in the house, and we are replacing our motorized screens on the upper deck with motorized vinyl so we can better utilize the deck during bad weather. Fun times. 🙂 I must be crazy....

Originally start the post on September 21 Yea, this isn't inside the house, but it is part of the house. 🙂 I am in the process of doing a garage makeover at our house. First, you have to understand that I'm a car guy and have been all my life, so I baby our cars, so it's only fitting that I have a nice "bedroom" for the "babies". 🙂 I'm working with Amanda Dame (she's right here in Big Canoe, click to email her) to coordinate all of the work and design. I don't have any real good before pictures of the garage now, but it's not in terrible shape. But I wanted more of a car guys garage, and was originally thinking about something along these lines but I've since changed my way of thinking in terms of the flooring. More about the design in a minute. Our garage already has an epoxy floor but it is starting to come up in several places and the only way to fix it is to strip the epoxy from the floor and start over, and that is not a cheap thing to do. In order to get epoxy to stick, the concrete has to be meticulously prepared and if not, you have spots where it will lift off the surface, and that is exactly what my floor is doing. I love the floor, but I don't want to go to the expense and effort to fix it and run the risk of it happening again. I figured the floor was the first place to start in the design because that color would dictate the color palette for the walls and ceiling. I have been looking at interlocking tile floors for a while now, and I thought I had my floor figured out. I wanted that fancy "race" look much like what you see in the image above and something like this image. Those tiles look like this. After thinking about that for a while, I didn't want a tile that "drained". I want a floor. The disadvantage to the self draining tiles is that they have to be vacuumed, you can't sweep them. So any dirt or bug that gets in the garage falls into the holes to the surface underneath. Nope, not for me. So what else is there? This was never going to be a true "working" garage. Think of it as a living room for the cars. 🙂 So, along those lines, I've decided on these interlocking tiles (same company) in a smoked oak color. To give you an idea what the floor looks like with a car sitting on top of it, here's a picture. As you're looking also notice the darker color to the ceiling in the left half of the image. I'm going with a darker color ceiling. RaceDeck is the company that makes the flooring. Smoked Oak Garage & Display Flooring - RaceDeck RACEDECK.COM Everything looks good parked on Smoked Oak display flooring. This RaceDeck flooring offers a vintage reclaimed wood look that will stand out at any car show So now that I have the floor picked out we'll move on to the room colors. That will have to wait until I get the floor sample from RaceDeck, and then we'll sit down with Amanda and talk colors (the sample is on the way). We're looking at using three to four colors in the room. I'm adding wainscoting all around the lower half of the walls, so that will be one color, the wall above that will be a different color, and the ceiling will be some dark color. There may be a thin border color between the wainscoting and upper wall, but not sure yet. We've already complete step 1 with the room, as I just had Bruce Jankowski come out and remove the old fluorescent lights and replace those with recessed LED's. What a difference! It's like a showroom in their now! I'll have to go count but there are at least 16 lights total. The run down the sides of both walls as well as between the cars. Plus, I can now dim the lights, so if I want to detail the cars I can turn them up, if I just want to relax the cars I can turn them down. LOL! Yes, the cars must rest. 🤪 I took some pictures at night so you could see how bright the lights are. Click to enlarge. What you probably notice in the picture are the shelves to the right of the red car. Those are built in so they are going to be ripped out as they are in the way when opening the car doors. So those will all come out and I've decided to replace the tub sink with a small vanity and sink. I'm not going for the industrial look and I want to hide the pipes etc.. 🙂 That needs to be done before the floors go down, so I need to search for something that will work in that spot. I love having a sink out there but don't like the look of the one that is there. We have one area in the back of the garage that we need to cover up. I've debated the best way of doing that and considered doors and other things like that, but it's such a large opening (83" wide and 97" tall) that doors would become impractical. In my searching I found a company that makes curtains in custom sizes and they have some that are race related. Race car Window Curtains & Drapes | Block Out | Custom Sizes WWW.VISIONBEDDING.COM VisionBedding is the home of unique bedroom decor! We have a wide variety of custom bedding and custom home decor to choose from. Shop now at VisionBedding.com! So I've decided to go that route for now. I'll have a custom curtain (1 panel) made to fit the opening. I have other accessories planned, there is a piece of neon (a nice garage HAS to have some neon!) that I'll be ordering (below), as well as a few other car and garage related clock, signs, etc. I'll add more information in the comments as we start the work on the garage.

Good morning! There will be a chance for a little severe weather this morning and with that chance comes some hail with it. Make sure the cars and other items are put away if possible. A severe watch is not anticipated. The rest of the week will be rain free and chances for rain don't return until next weekend. Current (5:20 am CDT) radar

It's a blast to drive but not without any traction. 🙂

I drove down to Atlanta Motor Speedway yesterday to participate in a SCCA autocross. I've had a 4 year sabbatical from driving and wasn't sure how well everything would come back to me. Instead of driving one of our cars, I decided I'd jump back in the last car I autocrossed and give it a try again. I drove this car for about 6 years before my break and got pretty good in it, managing 4 3rd place finishes at the National Championships. But it's a very difficult car to drive and and I was a little apprehensive getting back in it after an extended layoff. The wheelbase of the car is only 80", so it's very short. Being short, it has a very low polar moment of inertia meaning it doesn't take much to make it spin. Throw in 350 whp/380 ft lbs of torque in a car that weighs 1760 lbs with me in it and you have a really big handful. But yesterday didn't go to well, and it wasn't because of me. 🙂 They have made lots of changes to the car. They have totally reworked the suspension, retuned the engine, and removed the electric power steering. All great. BUT... this car relies on a ton of mechanical grip to go fast, and without it, you might as well be driving on ice. Two of us were driving the car yesterday and both us have had a lot of seat time in the car, and we both had issues. Come to find out, we were running on one year old, 40 run Hoosier slicks, that had the grip of a Flintstone rock tire. We both spun the car, Rick doing it twice. We had ZERO traction all day. To top that off, we discovered that the front tires were corded. So we literally had no traction. Keep in mind, to put that power to the ground and corner at 1.8 g's, we run 14" wide Formula Atlantic qualifying rear tires that generate a ton of grip. But once those tires get hard, you might as well be on rocks. So... this was my 4th run and I managed to do it correctly. You can hear the blow off valve as I have to lift to keep the back tires from spinning (no... to keep the car from spinning). If you'd like to see a good spin, I did one not far from the start on my 2nd run. 🙂 This run was a total disaster as I also missed a couple of gates (you don't get a time, it's called a DNF). It was a fun day, but the car is capable of going much faster, and hopefully I can get back in it soon with some good tires on it.

Thanks! Our toys!!! Seems like I'm always washing them so they stay clean, but it's hard not to drive them!

Things are progressing, although never as fast as I'd want it to. The room is a struggle to work with since one side has large glass windows and the other side is open with a bar, stairs, and a hallway. There are large bedrooms on each end of the media room so the room can't be expanded those directions. They did a modal review of the room and initially placed the subwoofers in these locations. THe subwoofer where the arrow from from was not going to work in that position as it would have to stick out in the floor. My suggestion In the bar area where I drew the red box is an ice maker that no longer works and is too expensive to fix. It made 60 lbs of ice a day so it's not a little icemaker. 🙂 WE have plans on removing that and adding shelves, but it would be a great place for that subwoofer to go and it would be hidden. We can add black fabric panels in place of the wood panels that you currently see. The original modal graph looked like this. Notice all of the peaks. After their original placement it looked like this. Much smoother. Again, the room is far from ideal. We will be using acoustic panels extensively in order to help with the room acoustics, and the rest will be managed during the final Trinnov calibration.

Got my car back from Balanced Performance Motors today after having a few changes made to it this week. I had to replace the low pressure fuel pump (LPFP) that I had purchased from Tapout Tuning since it couldn't hold enough pressure on E85. It was supposed to be a "Stage 2" pump, meaning it wouldn't have any issues running straight E85, but testing during the tuning process showed that the pressure was dropping to 45 lbs or so which is not anywhere close to what it needs to be. It will be sent back for a refund. This is a picture of the pump/housing that came out. It is a DW400 pump but apparently the venturi in the housing is the restriction to the flow and the reason for the low pressure. I installed an XDI Stage 1 LPFP and it is supposed to be sufficient to run E85 up to the limit of the stock turbos. Specs: OEM ATSV ACDELCO LPFP Spec’s: 377 LPH without back pressure. 215 LPH at 70 PSI XDI Stage 1 Spec's: 435 LPH at no back pressure 265 LPH at 70 PSI 23% Increase overall Maximum Pressure >80 psi at full flow (PLV opening pressure 85-90 psi, stock is 70-75 psi) See chart. Fuel Compatibility: all known fuels, all Ethanol blends Fitment: 100% OEM, no cutting, no crimping Tuning Support: HPT, Trifecta While the car was there, I had them replace the plugs with NGK Ruthenium plugs since I knew it still had the stock plugs. The plugs were gapped at 0.026" which is what is recommended for these cars running the boost levels we are seeing. I also installed a new Renick cold air intake (CAI), here's a picture of the installation. Click to enlarge. The new system consist of two equal length tubes each with its own filter. "Equal length ensure that the compressor wheel on each side of the LF4 has identical RPM response as they spool up and spool down. The LF4 has matched mirror turbos for efficiency why not have a flow matched intake as well? This helps make the engine respond identical on both banks with maximum efficiency. " The CAI kit also came with an oil catch tank to prevent any oil from reaching the turbos. So... I need to take the car out and get a pull or two and send it off to Justin to refine the tune a little. The plan now is to get the car on the dyno the last week in July to see what it's making, but it should be somewhere between 620-640 whp. Can't wait. Assuming nothing breaks, I'm done with changes for this car for a while. Famous last words... 🙂

Done with appearance items for a while! Thanks to James Renick for many of the items on both the cars. We couldn't be more pleased with how they turned out. There is always more to do though... the fun never stops. 🙂 The wife's car now gets: Cue update so she can get Android Auto New RE-alignment. Yes, to fix the current one AEM wideband/XDI translator/plugs install Justin Schmidt tune to replace the Trifecta tune I'll have them service the diff/trans/anything else that needs service when it's in for the Cue update... it has 56k miles My car needs: Have to replace the Tapout Stage 2 LPFP that is supposedly a DW400... we'll see but I don't think it is. I have a new XDI LPFP pump waiting to go in. Install Renick CAI and new plugs To the dyno to see how well Justin has done 🙂 After the dyno I see I need more power, we'll install a fuel cam. Not much left to do now! Here is a link to more of the pictures that I took today: ATS-V Appearance Items Done - Google Photos PHOTOS.APP.GOO.GL 25 new photos added to shared album

Finally. It's taken a long time but all of the appearance items are done and the wife LOVES it. 🙂 So... we had the hood, fenders, and front bumper cover re-painted, the front splitter was refinished, both front grills replaced with the ones you see here, all the emblems were replaced, roof and mirrors wrapped black, and ceramic treatment. The springs and wheels and tire don't hurt. 🙂 Now all we have to do is install the wideband sensor and XDI translator (for the high pressure fuel pump), and then I let Justin Schmidt loose on the car to tune it. I will get it re-aligned as soon as the shop I go to gets its new alignment machine. I also need to get it back to a dealer to get Android Auto on the Cue system. Midway through 2016 Cadillac added it, but this car was made early 2016, so they have to do an update to make it show up. This first picture was taken today (06/13/21) at Amicalola Falls State Park.

It has a HPFP and LPFP and is now running on E72

The Big Canoe Car Club had a little gathering that we went to yesterday, and I managed to capture a few pictures. Big Canoe Car Club - 05/01/21 - Google Photos PHOTOS.APP.GOO.GL 61 new photos added to shared album

Washed both cars today so that we can take them to the Big Canoe Car Club meet tomorrow. It's getting there... just a few more items. The guy that did the painting did a great job matching everything up. He painted the bumper cover, hood, and both fenders, and also fixed the pits etc in the front splitter. The new grills are installed and the "V" emblems have been ordered are getting replaced along with the ATS in the rear (black). The car will get a ceramic treatment and the roof and mirrors with get wrapped black, and hopefully it will be done the week after next. Since there isn't much to do as far as power goes, I'm saving that for the end. I just need the XDI translator, wideband sensor, and some new plugs installed, and it's ready for a Justin tune. Both parts are sitting in the garage, so hopefully in the next few weeks I can get Teddy Knisely to install those on the car and we'll be off to the races. 🙂 The wife loves her car... 😉 BTW, this is Obsession Red Tint Coat.

Got the wife's car back from the painter today (Russ Cowart) and he did an awesome job! He painted the two front fenders, hood, front bumper, installed the two front grills, and refinished the front splitter. Now we have to get it ceramic coated, clear wrap the front of the car and rear bumper cover, wrap the roof and mirrors black, and finish changing out the emblems. All the chrome is gone except for the ATS letters and the three V emblems and those will be changed soon. Then it's off to get the wideband sensor and XDI translator installed and get it re-aligned. Love the black grills, and I think that's the way they should have come to start with.