Hi all,

 

A while ago you might remember this;

 

 

Well, now it looks like this, I've done most of the work I wanted there are still a few things to do but it's a cast improvement;

 

 

And the interior is sorted now, I thought it looked good when I retrimmed all the leather, but now I think its look0ing much better, makes the before picture look a bit skank, what do you all think?

 

 

 

 

 

Your thoughts?

 

Bit of a DIY job, I made the BOSS, made the handbrake and gearchange, made all the silver changes etc, but its getting there now I think, just gotta finish the gear stick and a couple of other things.

 

Steve

Mate. well done.

 

Love the silver console. You take it all off and have it sprayed?

Well Cool M8!!

Engine bay sweet!

whats the cost involved in retrimming the leather?

Yeh I took all of the interior parts out and sprayed em up with chrome effect paint.

 

The centre bit wasnt too bad I had to sand it down for a fair while though to make it smoother as its all ripley isnt it. The other centre peice was ok, just unbolted all the bits off the back and did that.

 

The worst was around all the dials, cause it had to all come out, the top part, the controls the surrounds everything, and getting it appart was a pain in the arse too, but it's turned out ok.

 

The gear stick and handbrake are cut and shaped from chrome piping off of an old scooter of mine lol, and the plate on the back of the stick I ground out of a stainless plate, it's gonna have a Z ettched in it.

 

The leather retrimming was ok, just ripped all the tweed off, then put it on the back of the hide drew round it and cut it all to shape, then i stretched it over, used 3m spray on the back, then super glue round the edges. For the glove box etc I unscrewed everything, pulled the leather round glued and screwed it. It was time consuming but was not as bad as I thought.

 

And the steering wheel boss cost me 0 lol, I was well chuffed, took about five hours to make one though but Hicas and everthing works fine and it looks good! fook paying 110.00 for one!

 

Steve

looks fantastic mate really nice

 

only thing that concerns me is how high i see some zeds handbrake is this to park the misses on if shes playing up :confused: :D

Hehe unfortunatly not, good idea tho mate.

 

I think the cable is stretched beyond all use TBH, last MOT it was at about 5% of what it should have been. They still passed tho cause of the parking brake on the auto lol.

 

I chaged all the pads and the ones for the handbrake were fine, so it must be the cable I cant think of anything else. I'll get round to changing it sometime soon, I doubt if its been touched in the 12 years the car has been around!

 

Steve

Oh yeh paul forgot to answer part of your question I mis read it lol, the stuff on my car was about 170 for 1 conolly hide, other than that its 3M spray glue and a tube of bostik. I guess you could get cheaper leather, mine wasnt ideal it was way to thick to stretch in some places.

Cheers m8

I was going to go down the vinyl road but as my car is leather anyway it would seem a little silly :slap:

Or do what i did and bought a blue leather 3 peice for 20 quid at an auction and used the hide off that. :hyper:

Good idea matey, never thought of that! there was a cream one for sale at work the other day for about 40 squid

Cheers m8

I was going to go down the vinyl road but as my car is leather anyway it would seem a little silly :slap:

 

 

I think if you did that :nono: there would be some mickey taking to be had at your expence :hyper:

very very nice - i like :)