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Bar, One notch higher is set it is.
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This interior is kicking my butt and wasting a lot of valuable time, I am trying to come up with a clean / custom door panel and like I said before I am certainly no interior design guy !
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those panels are huge and its realy hard to make sumtin that makes it look less bulky
been thinking about mine for a while ('86 squarebody doors ) , i think the best option would be to use google pictures and just look wat will work too bad the dash is not comming intoo the interior or else you couldve shaped it intoo the doorpanels and have them flow down intoo doorholds and intoo armrests making cardholders in the bottom might break it up a little too , if theres room below the window mecanism you could have the pockets inside the doors |
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BOY! am I late to the party!!! looks feakin awsome!:metal::metal::metal:
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I think a door pocket in the bottom would break it up a bit . The one in my work van is handy . You could also trim it like the dash to tie it all in . But I am sure whatever you do will look great .
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how about some weekend progress I started by working on the kick panels to house the Kicker mids and highs. I first stretched and glued on the fleece next applied a coat of resin once that was dry I sanded it down and knocked off the high spots to get it ready for a second coat of resin. When the second coat dried I knocked that down and added some fiberglass filler to the low spots.....next will be covering them with that beautiful Relicate Leather.....if I am brave enough to attempt it ! LOL
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next I did a little work starting to get the dash padded and the dash cover fitted. I also started installing the custom made defrost vents that Trique Mfg made to match several of the other interior patterns !
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the last project that I was able to work on for the weekend was shortening the factory tilt column, I had a beautiful aftermarket column but it pushed the steering wheel way to close to the driver. I took the factory column and thanks to the forum I was able to figure out how to disassemble and it and then I took 3 1/2 inches out of the column shaft , shifter tube and steering shaft. The only other thing to do was to figure out how to make it go though my firewall ball mount with the shifting arm attached.....obviously that would work so I made the shifting arm removable from the shifting shaft. A couple new parts and some body and paint work and we should be good to go !
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thats some good noodling there... guess i'll keep the columns around for another build but i still really like Mexican food. maybe a trip your way needs to be planned...:metal:
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Dang, choppin down a factory tilt column.
That takes guts, Thats what I love about your style. Nothing holds you back. |
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found 3 later model columns but only 1 tilt... any help?
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dont know if it works on the older trucks :
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Boosted Bertha is going to be set up with Kicker Audio at Lonestar ThrowDown so I have been trying to make sure that we have this system setup nice and clean. That being said making a trim panel to fit around everything that it must fit around and getting the right contours was quite a job....but it is done now and ready to go to upholstery.
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Can't wait to see here there!
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just found this build this morning just got done reading 49 pages. very nice build! love seeing this interior coming together. very nice work!
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Great work! That interior is goign to be awesome!
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Well.....we are still plugging away at this interior ! I built a couple mdf frames to go around the areas that I wanted to insert then stretched fleece over it. The next step was laying down a couple coats of resin, sanding that smooth and starting back over with body filler. Once again I state that I am no interior guy there is probably a much better way to do this but I am just doing what I know.
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looks good , maibe if they come out looking realy nice you can have moulds taken of them and sell them along with the slosh tubs
you could have them vacuum moulded out of 1 mm sheet abs plastic wish is available in different colours too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3LVPRHmkcU this one is small but you can make the vacuumbox as big as you need and add some of those paintshop heatlamps or electric oven elements to soften the plastic or go professional https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFQ6R85puS0 |
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Sorry Mike but you ARE officially an "interior guy". Looks like fun and I'm sure it'll look fantastic when you're done.
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Well I am still plugging away at the interior but in the mean time we have decided that the Atomic Injection would not run this Mast Motorsports 6.2 and the Magnuson Supercharger to the full extent of its capabilities. So in my effort to find the right solution to the problem I called on my friends Aaron Kauffman and Jonathan Mansour from Gas Monkey, they came down and went over everything with me and pointed me towards the Holley Dominator.....so here we go ! I spent a couple days taking out everything else we had done to get it ready for my buddy Brock Payton to do the wiring. We started Sunday morning getting everything laid out and I have to say this is an AMAZING user friendly set up almost everything so far has been plug and play !
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We started under the hood plugging in the Fuel injection harness, then the cam position sensors and the idle air sensor . The next step was plugging in the main harness to it to start figuring out where to route it all
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i have been trying to do all the underneath grunt labor while my wiring guru Brock works inside so the next step for me was installing the 02 sensors and getting the transmission harness ran (i love that the Dominator controls the transmission also ! Most of the Injection setups leave the trans out)
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in our rush to get ready for SEMA i had never permanently mounted the battery so i finally mounted my stainless CPP drop down battery box this thing is too cool !! I also installed the Amazing XS D3400 this is one BEAST of a battery from XS Power , i love the battery and the battery tender that keeps everything juiced up during these long build periods !
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What's the part number on your batt box. I'm having a hard time finding the right one. Looking good Mike!
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good place for the battery especially when the car is aired out and out of power
ask gasmonkey garage how that feels (it happened to them shortly before the truck had to drive to the auctionblock) would be a good idea to add a power connection for a boosterpack under the hood |
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Where did u mount the computer? If in the cab, how and where did you get the harness through the firewall (grommet or plug)? Any pics? |
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this rig is too frigin' cool… brock rocks!
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Once again Clem saves me , he has gave me a spot he had reserved at his upholstery shop so I am trying to get everything busted out so his guy can get it covered !
I think after tonight I will be completely done with the door panels and have them ready to upholster ! The top and bottom panels are removable held to the door panel with Mad Daddy magnets...these things are Awesome...a little pricey but awesome ! I cant wait to see them all covered in that Relicate leather |
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Started all the wiring on the Rest-mod air unit, this is one nice unit !
I also decided to plumb the inside of the CPP under dash setup with the CPP hydroboost with actual hydraulic lines just in case ! Its all a mess at the moment but don't worry it will get all cleaned up before the dash goes in ! |
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You're moving right along! Are you going to have it all ready for LST this year?
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