Had a great night last night and have some damn talented friends.
My friend Scott Becker from STS Machining dropped off my hose clamps for the heater hoses and I have to tell you its pretty amazing what they can make in a CNC machine these days. He runs a small shop from his house and cranked these out in less than a week. I think he is going to try some hood hinges next. Amazing work.
I have been buggin my buddy Andrew to help me with a console for a long time and I am about to that point now so he came over and we made a huge dent in the project
We started off by making templates in chip board of the floor and then built the upper surface on it. The templates looked like this.
Then we cut out an exact replica of the carboard and did all our sanding and smoothing on that one before transfering it to the PVC Foam Board (It is very, very cool stuff if you have never worked with it before).
Once we had that done and were happy with them, we screwed that to the PVC and used a plunge router with a bearing guide on it to cut out the actual sides of the console. We used a 1/4 round bull nosed bit and gave the top edge a nice contour and made a huge mess with all the routing.
Here you can start to get an idea of what I am going for. Should look awesome when done and covered.
Center panel where the shifter is is going to get a couple of cup holders and maybe a little tray for stuff to go in It should frame the seats and stuff really well and bring the interior at least into the 2000's =)
Also ordered Seat Foams from TMI for the 67 mustang bucket seats, I got the R foams with the big bolsters.
Ordered the Seat belts as well from Seatbelt Planet, they should be here the end of next week.
Carpet is ordered, interior door handles are ordered and I think that is about it.
Parts for the cooling system should be here this afternoon so I can keep progress going. I need to get shorter struts for the front still, mine are too long.
Sean