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ryoder

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Did you do just the seats or everything else as well. I'm interested in the price point and difficulty installing

I did seats, carpet, and wall panels from Airtex and its around 4500 all in.

I also put in three new plastic side panels from Plane Plastics including th door panel and those are around 200 each.

The install is time consuming. It is not difficult in the sense that you need to know advanced fabrication techniques or anything.

Anyone who wants to do the install can PM me for my cell and I'll talk you through the process.

I still have door seal welt to install and I want to repaint my instrument panel plastic covers and maybe pull out the headliner and have it covered since it has some damage. I might also put in new window surrounds since everything else is new and the old ones are brittle, lost their color, and have very minor cracking and warping.

Once you start you can't stop installing shiny new parts.

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Looks great can't remember how it was could you post a before shot or is it something you want to put behind you and the memories are just too painful

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Looking good! Everything looks tight and smooth. Did you put new foam in or did the seats come with it attached?

 

John

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Looking good! Everything looks tight and smooth. Did you put new foam in or did the seats come with it attached?

 

John

Airtex supplies foam and leather covers. Some of the leather is already glued to the foam such as the bottom cushion for the rear seat. That bad boy is 100% complete from Airtex. The top of the rear seat is glued into place on the front but you have to slip it on top of your bare seat frame, glue in place, and then close the back off and glue a leather covered panel to it. I took this piece to a local upholstery shop for finishing. They charged me 75 bucks and it was worth it.

Ther front seats take five hours each minimum to complete minimum. They include foam bottoms that have leather covers glued to but you need to put the foam bottom onto your bare seat bottom frame and attach the foam to the bottom of the seat by poking holes in the leather and inserting plastic rivets through the holes. This is slow going but easy enough.

The top of the front seats is the worst. You get covers and foam separate and you glue foam to the seat back and then slide the covers on top of the foam. It's like putting skinny jeans on one of Marauders girlfriends.

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Wow. I wrote down the prices from Airtex to do my D, and it was ~$2500, but that was with cloth seats. I assume the leather adds an AMU?

Yes leather is about 1k more. The side panels and carpet add up. If you go to sun n fun they will give you a show discount.

Get the leather. It is very nice.

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Are the seat backs on the front seats higher, Head rests?

 

Looks Great, some thing that I have been thinking about for my F.    You may have sold me on this.

 

Ron

No the seat backs are not increased. To do that requires a field approval afaik and documentation of testing. Learned that at sun n fun from an interior shop who also said it will cost 20k to get a new interior done right.

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