UPDATE: More progress... and PICTURES! :yay:

People like pictures because I type less when I have 'em.

Today I worked on the Colt from before the sun came up to an hour after dark. EVERYTHING has been stripped from the interior now, seats, carpet, headliner, everything on the firewall except the pedals and chassis harness, the seatbelts, e-brake...

AND! It now has a clutch pedal! a shifter! a completely restored and bare-necessities chassis harness! a customized GSX ECU in a 91 Colt ECU case (so it bolts in easy)! I was sent the wrong clutch pedal assembly (over a year ago, good luck, right?), the shifter cables need some work...

...but what it doesn't have now is 58.6lbs of AC components (previously stripped) or get this... 36.8 lbs of seat belts. Yes. The frikkin' seat belt systems in this car weigh more than many 4 year olds. The control unit and wiring harness for the automatic belts were a pain to remove because they're tied into 4 different chassis harnesses with 29 wires. It's all cleaned out and ready for a roll bar/harness bar, and to start cutting and welding the rear up without starting any fires.

So, losing the AC, seatbelts, stereo equipment, non-essential interior parts such as speaker mounts, back seats, spare, jack, tools, and electronic parts and wires for features this car didn't come with... It's lost 196.4 lbs. Yes, I weighed it all. Sure I'll be putting some back, but holy cow. I could lose another 60 by leaving all the rest of the dash and interior parts out. The front bumper weighs 75 lbs, back bumper is 44... and you can bet something aluminum is going to happen with that stuff. I don't need weight up front with AWD. I will have it down to around 1900 lbs when it's all done if I'm lucky.