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Re: Edit... Resto mod coming together

Posted: Tue May 06, 2014 4:26 pm
by 4uall
My favourite interior of all time.......................................someday 8)

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Re: Edit... Resto mod coming together

Posted: Tue May 06, 2014 4:29 pm
by 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.

Re: Edit... Resto mod coming together

Posted: Tue May 06, 2014 6:35 pm
by toplessexpat
Decisions decisions....... If you're doing burl wood though id push it along the door caps too though!

Re: Edit... Resto mod coming together

Posted: Tue May 06, 2014 8:45 pm
by SoFlaFiat
I do believe you are right!!
I'll get to that a little later in the game...

Re: Edit... Resto mod coming together

Posted: Tue May 06, 2014 10:50 pm
by 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!)

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Re: Edit... Resto mod coming together

Posted: Wed May 07, 2014 6:17 am
by 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?

Re: Edit... Resto mod coming together

Posted: Wed May 07, 2014 4:32 pm
by 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.

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

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Re: Edit... Resto mod coming together

Posted: Wed May 07, 2014 11:19 pm
by vandor
Please add a shield to protect the fuel pump. You may be able to modify the shield that protected the FI pump.
bye,

Re: Edit... Resto mod coming together

Posted: Thu May 08, 2014 7:24 am
by SoFlaFiat
Thanks Csaba! I will definitely do that. I plan on running a full guard under the engine bay as well.

Re: Edit... Resto mod coming together

Posted: Thu May 08, 2014 8:21 am
by btoran
sweet looking dash concept and great cad skills. you even got the hazy clock face mocked up perfectly. :D

Re: Edit... Resto mod coming together

Posted: Thu May 08, 2014 10:55 am
by toplessexpat
SoFlaFiat wrote: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.

Re: Edit... Resto mod coming together

Posted: Thu May 08, 2014 12:38 pm
by SoFlaFiat
Thanks B!!
glad you like my "clock" :shock:
I'm actually going keyless and that will be my push start :D

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.

Re: Edit... Resto mod coming together

Posted: Thu May 08, 2014 4:41 pm
by toplessexpat
:) he can do my next set then!

Re: Edit... Resto mod coming together

Posted: Thu May 08, 2014 8:38 pm
by 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 :oops:
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!

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

Re: Edit... Resto mod coming together

Posted: Fri May 09, 2014 8:47 am
by 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?