A chaotic w/e followed, cutting door panels to size, working out mounting
places and mechanisms for the inner door handles etc.
Rich built a sub box and a rear shelf for the speakers. A mate, Ben (ICE,
alarms, window tinting etc: 07966171470) , came over to give a hand with the ice
and getting everything installed and working before it was all hidden by the
trimming. The ICE is fairy modest consisting of a sub, 2x 6x9's and an amp
running off a leisure battery via a split charger. Head unit was a clarion with
built in hard drive, ps2 had been gathering dust in the living room for years
and the flip down screen was pretty cheap too. Amp, head unit, sub & screen were
from Bass Junkies in Solihull. Ben wired in an inverter to run the ps2. The ps2
is actually 12v so we could have taken it apart and hard wired it into the car
but wanted to be able to take it out if wanted elsewhere. I will be putting some
mid range speakers and tweeters in the front kick panels when time / £ allows.
Monday the car went off to the trimmer - Chris at Custom Coachtrimming near
Evesham.
Chris does some excellent work and has done quite a few show winning interiors.
As our budget was £500 for the whole interior, this one certainly wouldn't be
(average show interior is about £2k apparently), but chris still did a top job.
The interior was going to be dark to set off the varios electrics and the dash
gauges. First off he started by checking the rear seat fit, which was spot on.
Next was the headlining (a gray one I had picked up 2/h unused for a future
project) - I've never seen a headliner go in so quick. He then started on the
interior panels and the acoustic carpet on the sub box. We had decided a pattern
the previous w/e and chosen the materials. there were 3 materials on each panel
and some stitching to break it up. When I picked the car up a few days later,
the interior was transformed and it felt like the project was finally getting
somewhere at last.
Once the car was back Ben came over and helped tidy the electrics up, the gauges were connected up and everything tested. Lee (Volksmagic) had invested a lot of time in building a gauge pod to go above the windscreen which mirrored the contours of the dash. This was fitted and the 4 gauges (oil temp, oil pressure, volts & petrol) wired in. Rich fitted the carpet (again 2/h unused) and we were almost there.
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