Edit... Resto mod FIRST DRIVE

[4uall]

My favourite interior of all time.......................................someday

http://assets.hemmings.com/uimage/1560925-1600-1067.jpg

[SoFlaFiat]

Jay,
That is a nice one. I think most vintage Ferrari interiors are great and of course, they are very similar to the spiders.

[toplessexpat]

Decisions decisions....... If you're doing burl wood though id push it along the door caps too though!

[SoFlaFiat]

I do believe you are right!!
I'll get to that a little later in the game...

[toplessexpat]

.... with a nice smooth rounded top edge, and blended into tan leather clad door cards, a tan leather clad tunnel and NOT cream seats (I made that mistake!)

A

[SoFlaFiat]

I thought I remembered seeing pictures of cream seats. I'm most likely sticking with tan on the seats and will have no Concorde on the tunnel, just wrapping it with the same material I use on the dash and the door cards. What was your issue with the cream? Just that lighter colors get dirty fast?

[SoFlaFiat]

Let's not have it said that I can't take good advise.
Thanks to Special, I found and installed a mounting kit under my fuel pump. I also added a check valve to make sure I don't get excessive drain back.



And thanks to Andy's persuasiveness, I am in the midst of patching up holes in my air box...

[vandor]

Please add a shield to protect the fuel pump. You may be able to modify the shield that protected the FI pump.
bye,

[SoFlaFiat]

Thanks Csaba! I will definitely do that. I plan on running a full guard under the engine bay as well.

[btoran]

sweet looking dash concept and great cad skills. you even got the hazy clock face mocked up perfectly.

[toplessexpat]

Just that lighter colors get dirty fast?

They do - ridiculously so with the roof down and the lighter shade of vanilla that I'd selected. One thing I did learn doing the change is to NOT try and completely emulate the originals. Doing exposed stitching looks cool - IF (and that's a BIG IF) you have the talent to do it. I don't - and the slightest deviation from the intended line looks bad. The black seats have, if you notice, hidden stitching on the base and back, and then French Seams on the sides. Much easier/nicer looking.

[SoFlaFiat]

Thanks B!!
glad you like my "clock"
I'm actually going keyless and that will be my push start

Andy,
I hear ya with the stitching and maybe that is the part about doing seats that scares the crap out of me.
I have a good friend in town who is a master and he has offered to help so I don't have to be too brave with the upholstery.

[toplessexpat]

he can do my next set then!

[SoFlaFiat]

Andy,
I owe you a debt of gratitude! Turns out when I pulled my relay box from the drivers fender well, two wires fell loose
It is a Chinese Hella box and there it is people! You get what you pay for!!
I reverted to my old standby... Individual harnessed relays!



Working on getting them hooked up in the drivers kick board. Who needs map pockets any more???

[toplessexpat]

. Happy to be of service.... Sometimes being anal has an advantage!

Now for the interior suggestion. It's a shame that I sold the set of speaker pods that I made up - they were to replace the map pockets with a nice contoured pod that could take 7" speakers, and were designed to be leather clad. How's your fibre skills feeling?