Time for an '07 interior overhaul. Need ideas..
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If I decided to go the carbon fiber route and not make it look "ricer" I can also do door panels in the sewable upholstery carbon fiber composite. Its more subtle, and I can pad areas of the panels for comfort...
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I just figured with the interior coming out for stereo install and interior paint anyway, I wanted to explore what more adventurous modifications others had done.
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Well, I haven't really decided exactly which way I'm going with this. But since I am rained out of work, I brought the Heep into the shop and disassembled the dash and console to see where stereo stuff can fit. While I am in there I am making molds for the dash bezels and the entire center console, as well as the A-pillar plastic. I think I'm going to play with some carbon fiber and Hexcel Texalium and my new vacuum bagging set up and see what i can make.......
As my wife says "Boredom and a complete shop can be a dangerous thing....."
As my wife says "Boredom and a complete shop can be a dangerous thing....."
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Well, I haven't really decided exactly which way I'm going with this. But since I am rained out of work, I brought the Heep into the shop and disassembled the dash and console to see where stereo stuff can fit. While I am in there I am making molds for the dash bezels and the entire center console, as well as the A-pillar plastic. I think I'm going to play with some carbon fiber and Hexcel Texalium and my new vacuum bagging set up and see what i can make.......
As my wife says "Boredom and a complete shop can be a dangerous thing....."
As my wife says "Boredom and a complete shop can be a dangerous thing....."
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A 32x60 new shop. Just when it seemed like I was set with lots of room for my stuff, my brother got divorced and sold his house. He said "I'm bringing a trailer down full of tools you can have, because I'm not building a new shop." He shows up with a 2 car Racecar trailer loaded down. A complete machine shop with Bridgeport milling machine, metal lathe, plasma cutter, 2 phase power inverter, and all his gunsmithing tools. So now I have almost no wall space left...
Not complaining! Its definitely more than I ever expected to have...
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Yeah, Its been a bucket list thing of mine for a long time. Kind of happened by a weird bunch of random events. The unfinished downstairs of my house held my automotive tools and some woodworking and boatbuilding tools. When my Dads Parkinson's got too bad for him to take care of himself, we were going to build a 20x20 workshop for my tools so we could make an apartment for him down stairs.. Well, my wife and Dad did what they do best: spend my money! And I came back into town to this:
A 32x60 new shop. Just when it seemed like I was set with lots of room for my stuff, my brother got divorced and sold his house. He said "I'm bringing a trailer down full of tools you can have, because I'm not building a new shop." He shows up with a 2 car Racecar trailer loaded down. A complete machine shop with Bridgeport milling machine, metal lathe, plasma cutter, 2 phase power inverter, and all his gunsmithing tools. So now I have almost no wall space left...
Not complaining! Its definitely more than I ever expected to have...
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