So i finally got around to installing my taurus cupholders (i must have gotten a slightly different sort than everyone else gets, because i had to wrestle the thing in there.) and I was looking above the ECU to try and guide the now-larger package of stuff back into my console. Well, I removed the radio fuse prior to beginning, and these 2 wires that had been stuffed into the fuse area since i bought the car caught my attention again. So i pulled off the driver side kick panel to see where the wires went. Well they didn't go back that way, rather, one went up and disappeared, one went behind the ecu along the firewall and disappeared, and the rest attached to tap power, crudely. Wellll I began to trace the wires, and kept removing panel after panel from my interior and FINALLY discovered the destination of the wires. Turns out, it was all part of an ancient cell phone system installed after the car was first bought. So i started to really follow the wires all over the car, removed the passenger seat, etc etc. Well, finally i got it all out, and my fusebox is tidy again.

Unfortunately it got dark before i finished putting my car back together.

http://s164.photobucket.com/albums/u...ell%20removal/
please excuse all the junk, dirt, and everything else that doesn't look like it should. I'm workin' on it...

 

jeez.. talk about old skool.
I remember installing those things back in high school.
ugh.
we used to charge $250 to install those, and we a line out the door for them on saturdays...

 

wow never seen that color interior before.

 

dude....i had to remove one of those ancient bastards from my ride too.....had this little box behind my seat, and i had no clue as to what it was...so i never touched it....thought maybe it was radioactive. I got to trying so hard to figure out what it was that i must have blew a circuit....so i just ripped it out. no negative effects, but it was somewhat similar to that. haha good job.

 

one of the first things I do on cars I plan on keeping is too pull ANY aftermarket **** out of it that I didn't install.
I've had 2 cars that wouldn't start because of aftermarket crapola.
I just pulled a cell phone setup out of the G20 because the original removal was just cutting off anything visible

 

I have same interior but with Leather
This was before I converted to Stick and fixed the drivers seat leather

 

Guess I wasn't alone. Wish I had that steering wheel and shifter though. I got the startrek steering wheel.

 

I had an 88 Celica convertible with a similar kind of cell phone in it, Only when I bought the car the entire system still worked and the phone was under the passenger seat. I had no idea it was there, since I test drove the car from the driver seat and never bothered looking under the seats, since everything else was stock.

A friend and I spent half of a Saturday taking out about 140 feet of wires. Under all of the carpet and behind the dash.

Looks like you did about the same project.

 

well I used to have that kind of wheel. It's still in the basement. But I now have a 92SE non-airbag black leather wheel, with black trim swapped in around it.

and I have THAT VERY shifter. nForce sent it to me (along with the shiftlock control unit) after his 5spd swap, so i could have a leather one, and to fix the shiftlock problem.


except that mister nForce has bose, leather, and FLOORMATS@!! and white gauges. otherwise ours are the same. Well... minus stuff i've added afterwards.

 

For a sec I thought you were talking about the Taurus cup holder

I used to install car phones, and yes the older phones were huge. We had one that was very old, I think it was rotory LOL. It looked like a pay phone. Analog, reliable, awesome reception, just not very portable or convenient. Anyone remember bag phones?

 

ohhh yeah..
the bag phones were the shiznit.
customers would come in and pay is $150 a pop to install a bagphone... all we did was cut a hole in their carpet for wires, tap power from the cig lighter, then run the antenna cable under the door trim to the rear window. stick on an antenna and voila! $150. would take 20-30 min.

 

Bag phones are coming back...
they offer more power for use in rural areas.
http://www.motorola.com/consumer/v/i...ow=productHome

 

basically the same story on mine, except the numbskull tapped power from the front side of my fuse box, by stuffing the wires into the pre-fuse terminals and pushing the fuse into place to hold it there.

 

Star Trek steering wheel???

 

 

 

Hahaha Ok got it. I'm not gonna lie, Star Trek is da shizznit. And that wheel doesn't look all that bad if ya ask me.