So I dropped by the upholstery shop today we did some test fitting of the panels. Overall, the stuff fits about as well as any aftermarket part for a 40 year old car. That is to say, some modification is required for about everything since no two cars are exactly alike. It took about three hours to mock up the headliner, but that was mostly because we had no directions. We didn't know we had to take these pieces out:
http://i366.photobucket.com/albums/o...A/DSC_1004.jpg
As of now the headliner side panels will need a little bit of trimming at the back base, but are pretty good.

Right now there's a bit of a gap:

http://i366.photobucket.com/albums/o...A/DSC_1005.jpg
http://i366.photobucket.com/albums/o...A/DSC_1007.jpg

another minor issue we've had has been fitting the rear door panels with the DSE cage, which hugs the car really tightly.

http://i366.photobucket.com/albums/o...A/DSC_1008.jpg
http://i366.photobucket.com/albums/o...A/DSC_1009.jpg

Lastly, here's a sample of the look for the doors
http://i366.photobucket.com/albums/o...A/DSC_1001.jpg
http://i366.photobucket.com/albums/o...A/DSC_1002.jpg
http://i366.photobucket.com/albums/o...A/DSC_1003.jpg
the fiberglass trim will get covered with this fabric:
http://i366.photobucket.com/albums/o...A/DSC_0999.jpg

Matt

that diamond weave with the faux CF should look killer together!

on larrys motiv-8er they had to notch the rear panel for the cage it that car also.

Are you planning on having the Faux Carbon fiber done at someone like Hydro Illusions or are you using a local shop.

Marty, the guy at the trim shop was just going to use the fabric I gave him and wrap it over the fiberglass pieces.

AJ, do you have a link to pics of Larry's door panels, I'm afraid if I go dig into Motiv8r's build thread, I won't be productive for the entire day :lol:
We've got some ideas, but its always nice to see how others have tackled these little issues.

Matt

its in one of the videos from the build but they dont really show much,just a short bit of micheal cutting out the piece where it hits, they never showed pics of it finished and when i saw the car a tylers shop last year i didnt even think to look at that part.
i dont know that they fiberglassed up the notched spot before they covered them though.

Hi Matt,

Tom does some incredible work and it's hard to tell the difference between the real stuff and the stuff that he does.

here are a link and a couple pics

http://hydroillusions.com/


http://www.sportmachines.com/albums/...7_0759_IMG.jpg

http://www.sportmachines.com/albums/...7_0760_IMG.jpg

http://www.sportmachines.com/albums/...7_0765_IMG.jpg

http://www.sportmachines.com/albums/...7_0767_IMG.jpg

Whoa, I'd never looked at Tom's work closely before, it's pretty amazing. I have a couple parts that would look good with that finish, but I'm too busy to get around to sending the stuff his way right now. Maybe if I'm really picky I'll have him repaint the fake CF sill plates which I got that don't match the real stuff very well.

In other news, my dad came up with another possible name for our project. He wants to call it the "Getaway Car," because it will be a car, with a bunch of money from the bank tossed into it, that everyone will be trying to catch.

I quite like that one, I think it might even be be worthy of project title.

Matt

Finally, some fabric went on over the last couple of days:

http://i366.photobucket.com/albums/o...A/DSC_1044.jpg
http://i366.photobucket.com/albums/o...A/DSC_1043.jpg
http://i366.photobucket.com/albums/o...A/DSC_1037.jpg

We test fit the dash as well today, and got things fitting pretty well, but found that the mounting hardware on the top needed to be reinforced, as it fell off, so we (and by that I mean the editorial we, since I didn't do any fiberglass work), glassed over the mounting brackets:

http://i366.photobucket.com/albums/o...A/DSC_1053.jpg
http://i366.photobucket.com/albums/o...A/DSC_1052.jpg

Also fit the doors to the trim, so it would look better

http://i366.photobucket.com/albums/o...A/DSC_1058.jpg

Very nice. Headliner looks sweet.:thumbsup:

Here's a pic of the roll bar notch in Scott's Marquez panel...I will have to do the same as well!