How to: Interior Fabrication
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How to: Interior Fabrication
If you guys have been watching my posts the last few days, I have told you all that I'm doing "Exterior Body Fabrication" for my High School Graduation Project.
However, when I started today, I noticed something.
1) I'm sanding this all by hand
2) I used two sand pads and got like, NO paint off in the tiny, tiny area I was testing my sanding on.
3) It's just me doing it
So! I have come to a conclusion. My truck doesn't look that horrid on the outside, and really, i'm looking for comfort and looks on the inside.
So, instead of Exterior Body Fabrication, I am doing Interior Fabrication!
So, with the help of you guys by answering all of my questions and following Em's thread of how she did hers and following everyone elses, it's going to be a lot cheaper, quicker, and it'll be a load of fun doing it!
So, that's my update for now.
If you all have any tips or anything, PLEASE tell me!
Thanks!
However, when I started today, I noticed something.
1) I'm sanding this all by hand
2) I used two sand pads and got like, NO paint off in the tiny, tiny area I was testing my sanding on.
3) It's just me doing it
So! I have come to a conclusion. My truck doesn't look that horrid on the outside, and really, i'm looking for comfort and looks on the inside.
So, instead of Exterior Body Fabrication, I am doing Interior Fabrication!
So, with the help of you guys by answering all of my questions and following Em's thread of how she did hers and following everyone elses, it's going to be a lot cheaper, quicker, and it'll be a load of fun doing it!
So, that's my update for now.
If you all have any tips or anything, PLEASE tell me!
Thanks!
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I've got an actual job to attend to as well as I can't be spending loads of money, even if it is on my baby.
However, the interior is going to get done! Less work, less money, more comfort, and I still get the accomplished feeling every time I step into my truck!
However, the interior is going to get done! Less work, less money, more comfort, and I still get the accomplished feeling every time I step into my truck!
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I mean, I know what I WANT it to look like..
It's getting there that's the hard part.
I'd like to get harness seats inside, get those nice silver/chrome bullet hole pedals. Black/blue colored interior. I'd like to get a tachometer gauge, new steering wheel. I want the inside to look like a custom built, you know?
I know what I want it to look like...
It's getting there that's the hard part.
I'd like to get harness seats inside, get those nice silver/chrome bullet hole pedals. Black/blue colored interior. I'd like to get a tachometer gauge, new steering wheel. I want the inside to look like a custom built, you know?
I know what I want it to look like...
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there's SO much fun to be had playing with the interior! i think you'll have a good time making it comfortable and customizing it to your taste...of course...just when you get done doing something you think of ANOTHER cool thing you'd like to try that's different...you'll start wanting to collect trucks!
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Lots of MDF, speaker box carpet, a 4 ltr tin of contact adhesive and off you go...
Forget adding that crap to your pedals too, most that I've seen have some sort of clamp arrangement to keep them on your pedals which usually gives somewhere for your foot to get caught underneath. Don't ask me how I can know this can happen, lets just say that I didn't crash but just about needed new underwear (BTW, not my car). Just get some new replacement rubbers, its not a rice-burner.
Forget adding that crap to your pedals too, most that I've seen have some sort of clamp arrangement to keep them on your pedals which usually gives somewhere for your foot to get caught underneath. Don't ask me how I can know this can happen, lets just say that I didn't crash but just about needed new underwear (BTW, not my car). Just get some new replacement rubbers, its not a rice-burner.
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From: northern cali
pull your interior parts from junkyards...it's cheap and you can play with different ideas on how to do things...paint, stencils, mix up the years (love the 92 bench in my 1980 and buckets like ozstang's are kickass), etc.
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