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Topic Started: Sep 24 2013, 06:37 PM (56,772 Views)
ZXTjato
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On a side note I'm doing leather door panels and leather rear passenger trims like the GT, all this leather I saved off of a leather lazy-boy recliner. I will dye the leather charcoal like my GT seats and do red stitches, the pieces of leather are not big enough to do the entire thing so I got to come up with a seam line I want, may use the door roller handle and my line for visual. This will be a later thing.
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nice, im saving parts also for my interior, going to re upholster seats with black leather and so on.
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ZXTjato
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pvr007
May 18 2014, 04:58 PM
nice, im saving parts also for my interior, going to re upholster seats with black leather and so on.
Dude it's amazing what kind of parts are save able from every day junk, a few examples are all that foam, juke pad, and material came from a materess we were tossing out because we replaced it. The leather on that old recliner is amazing on the sides and back, huge flat nice pices. Cat food cans washed out are great for WD 40 and scrubbing rusty bolts. It's just amazing what is out there to be reused and re purposed. Another example is I made this shade structure for my dog out of a large tan color bed sheet and an aluminum frame off a boat,the frame was big so I stretched the tan sheet over it tied it up and boom, it's the same color as the desert earth blends in nice looks great and is shade for my dog. Re purposed FREE!!! Things, a bit of thinking and many things can be made from other things. Keep your eyes open for some one tossing a leather sofa, cut the pices off call it good leave the junk behind and done :lol just done use pee bed foam, bed bug sofas or cat house fabric....some things are true trash...
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nice, spoiler alert! i just bought a 4 door geo 91 5 speed for 375
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ZXTjato
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4 doors are my favorite style because the back is more square than sloped
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Leather in a Geo! Sweet. I can't wait to see!
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ZXTjato
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For those wonder about AC here is a view
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May 16 2014, 11:44 AM
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Duh, these radio bezel pice is ment to break, was gently putting the visuals back in and snap....common now....

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Eventually all the plastic will snap away leaving behind a husk of crazy glue, JB weld, various epoxy mixes I've used and bits of wire where I've beefed up a spot....
Tanner, you are the king of recycling! Nice work on the car.

I can't believe you don't have about 4 poems in for this bezel. This is recycling at it's best free for the best poem. Come on, take a shot at it. Link to Free radio Bezel
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ZXTjato
May 18 2014, 05:17 PM
pvr007
May 18 2014, 04:58 PM
nice, im saving parts also for my interior, going to re upholster seats with black leather and so on.
Dude it's amazing what kind of parts are save able from every day junk, a few examples are all that foam, juke pad, and material came from a materess we were tossing out because we replaced it. The leather on that old recliner is amazing on the sides and back, huge flat nice pices. Cat food cans washed out are great for WD 40 and scrubbing rusty bolts. It's just amazing what is out there to be reused and re purposed. Another example is I made this shade structure for my dog out of a large tan color bed sheet and an aluminum frame off a boat,the frame was big so I stretched the tan sheet over it tied it up and boom, it's the same color as the desert earth blends in nice looks great and is shade for my dog. Re purposed FREE!!! Things, a bit of thinking and many things can be made from other things. Keep your eyes open for some one tossing a leather sofa, cut the pices off call it good leave the junk behind and done :lol just done use pee bed foam, bed bug sofas or cat house fabric....some things are true trash...
Yes, yes, yes! :gp
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he doesn't need the free bezel he just fixed his again...awesome repairs.
Edited by banginmetro64, May 19 2014, 10:47 AM.
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So I had to remove my radio bezel again because the switch for the AC is faulty and not functioning like it should. So I had another switch laying around with no wire plug (hacked out) the radio bezzle broke again so I had some strands of wire I chopped out of a vacuum cleaner cord and I used some JB weld and strands of wire to fix the cracks around the screw mountin point. The wire acted like rebar to cement and I only used a BB size of each compound on JB weld, worked fantastic.


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So here is the new (25 year old) AC switch I used some heat shrink solder and fixe it up super nice, now my AC compressor kicks on with the switch engaged and the blower can still remain on to blow cool air still.
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So here is more leather I salvaged from a sofa, since the chair was white an the sofa is brown I will get odd dye patterns. I'll dye all the leather needed for my project charcoal and see what pices match and go from there. Here's the plan-

Door crappy encono :shit is going away I hate it gray plastic fabric stuff

The shift console will get a sweet wrap with red stitches

I have my old dash pad I may try and recover and use with charcoal and red stitched leather

I have a GTi steering wheel wrapped in black leather on its way (pure sexy)

May cover the dash parts in charcoal leather also (depends)

The rear passenger arm rest gets covered and plastic panels get covered.

3M spray 90 should hold this stuff to the plastic, I'll be sewing panels together to make beautiful stitched pieces and I'll wrap the ends under the joints to the back side for seamless beauty.

The shift boot is rubber and I may "May'' try and do a new shift boot from leather.

I hope the leather adds another layer of protection from heat/cold, sound and rattles. I hope by covering the interior I can achieve that luxury I want on a budget deal, going to take me some work to sort this stuff and sew it. I may be hand sewing a lot of this stuff so I can get the stitches I want, I can hand do sexy stitches that can be seen on the craftsmanship. Since I have 90% of all the plastics in my room I'm going to start there and see where it goes. Wonder how much all this cost for me to buy new?
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So I saw a guide some where, some one had taken apart the tensioner pulley for the AC and serviced the bearings inside. I've got to do something about this car it's so boggy I can hardly stand it, must reduce mass drag on my engine I know AC takes tons of power but after the install I'm still mega low on power, feels like the car is breathing through a straw, the stock intake is back on and I suspect that to be cause of the mega boggy performance. With the AC "off" I should not see any performance drop in the slightest. What's it got to drive a belt and a free wheeling pulley? I must fix this performance issue. Driving me crazy.
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yiffzer
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You can always try to remove the AC belt and determine whether that's the issue.

I personally don't use AC so I just removed the belt for my other cars.
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You need to let that camdhaft breath! You need headers and exhaust work.
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