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 Post subject: Interior upgrade.
PostPosted: Sat Dec 29, 2007 9:35 pm 
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One part I’m really don’t like when I comes to F-body is the interior.
How in the hell can you, as a manufacturer, choose to use so simple and so ugly plastic interior in a car as Pontiac did for the Firebird & Chevy for the Camaro?

That is why I decided to wrap my ugly grey plastic into some more fancy black leather imitation.

For now I’m waiting on my new black carpet, then I can start to get things together and be ready for 2008.
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 Post subject: Re: Interior upgrade.
PostPosted: Sat Dec 29, 2007 9:42 pm 
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Looks good!

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 Post subject: Re: Interior upgrade.
PostPosted: Sat Dec 29, 2007 9:43 pm 
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Some more pics


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 Post subject: Re: Interior upgrade.
PostPosted: Sun Dec 30, 2007 7:55 am 
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 Post subject: Re: Interior upgrade.
PostPosted: Sun Dec 30, 2007 9:25 am 
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And some more. :D


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 Post subject: Re: Interior upgrade.
PostPosted: Sun Dec 30, 2007 5:23 pm 
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Looks good! :ok:

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 Post subject: Re: Interior upgrade.
PostPosted: Mon Dec 31, 2007 4:04 pm 
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vikingramair wrote:
One part I’m really don’t like when I comes to F-body is the interior.
How in the hell can you, as a manufacturer, choose to use so simple and so ugly plastic interior in a car as Pontiac did for the Firebird & Chevy for the Camaro?


either pay for a nice interior or pay for performance or bump up the cost and get both. I'll take my cheap imitation leather interior anyday and long as I can get the performance/dollar value that I've got.

New stuff does look nice.

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 Post subject: Re: Interior upgrade.
PostPosted: Tue Jan 01, 2008 2:56 am 
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What kind of material, how much do you need to do a compleete job, were can one buy the material here in Germany and what is the total cost of this mod?

I know its alot to ask but I would be willing to ride around for a while with no interior to get this done.

perhaps if you have the time you can do a write up on the job.

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 Post subject: Re: Interior upgrade.
PostPosted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 10:19 am 
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Looks good. I'm surprised to see it stretched around all those corners without getting wrinkled up.

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 Post subject: Re: Interior upgrade.
PostPosted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 4:50 pm 
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Thank you,
I’m buying all material as vinyl and glue from this shop located in the south part of Sweden, helsingborg.
http://www.topntrim.nu/

The vinyl I’m using is a super stretch kind. With a little help from a heat gun you can make magic!! Glue is 3M scotch-weld contact adhesive blue water dispersion 30
Consistency is almost like water. You need to wait a couple of hour after you have prepared the two surface you want to attach.

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Heat gun (hair-dryer), screw clamp at least 2 , sandpaper, cutting pliers, scalpel or a really sharp knife, something to clean the panel. Glue, 3M fastbond &spray 74 (simply the best.)

Preparation:

Use sandpaper to rough the panel, and then clean it.

Material:

Super stretch vinyl the black one & normal vinyl for the red part. Advantage of using vinyl instead of real leather is that vinyl is much more flexible, it is more easy to form, stretch and work with, the look is the same minus the nice real leather smell L

Cut much larger piece of the vinyl than the actually panel is, just to be on the safety side. I would say 10” more in every direction.

Decide where you want to begin, I prefer to not do the whole panel at once instead I start with one side and work me around.

Apply 3M-fastbond glue to both surfaces. Wait for at least 4-5 hour before you start the assembling. Lay down the vinyl over the panel where you have covered it with glue. Heat(caution do not over heat) the vinyl up; it will be soft and very stretchy. Stretch out the vinyl over the panel
And work it out by pressing vinyl by hand to the panel. Be very patient and work slowly. You need to work out every hole and deep areas to get the texture. When the front side is completed you need to wrap the vinyl on the opposite side of the panel and fix it. I used the spray glue 3M 74 for this occasion. What you need to have all time is glue & heat.


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 Post subject: Re: Interior upgrade.
PostPosted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 12:22 am 
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sounds like a lot but it looks great.... not sure I would do all my pieces but some atleats...

thanks for the info.

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 Post subject: Re: Interior upgrade.
PostPosted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 7:48 pm 
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Some update pics on the progress.


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 Post subject: Re: Interior upgrade.
PostPosted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 7:51 pm 
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Some more. :P


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 Post subject: Re: Interior upgrade.
PostPosted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 10:06 pm 
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That really looks like a great job!

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 Post subject: Re: Interior upgrade.
PostPosted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 7:44 pm 
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My dash is now completed.


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 Post subject: Re: Interior upgrade.
PostPosted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 7:46 pm 
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some more.


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 Post subject: Re: Interior upgrade.
PostPosted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 7:57 pm 
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That is coming along real nice.

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 Post subject: Re: Interior upgrade.
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Yes, definitely something different than the standard black/grey interior.

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