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[kcoyle]

I finally saved up enough dough to do a budget interior (just seats and carpet initially) on my car. I found a used set of seat for $275. Unfortunately the "great looking on the outside" set of seats I bought were from a car that had standing water in it so the frames were rusted and the covers smelled like crap.







So I had to strip them off, hose them down in the driveway with vinegar and baking soda and install them on my frames. I also had to have a tear on the driver seat repaired at the cost of $50 bucks. The rear seats were surprisingly in great shape.

Stripping and replacing the seat bottoms was straight forward with no surprises.I skipped the hog rings in favor of plentiful and already in the garage zip ties. The rear sear remove and install was equally straightforward.Total seat cost with gas, tolls, repair, and meguiars #40 is about $360 bucks.
The carpet in my car was faded and the hatch area was shot. My biggest problem was that the hatch area carpet was worn down to the rubber backing in most places and woiuld look like crap even with paint. I found a stained but more plush hatch area carpet for $25 bucks. With the front and rear seats out to be replaced, I removed the rear quarter panels and took out all of the carpet except for the front part that is under the front seats. I shot that piece in the car after tedious masking. I cleaned and hung the rest of the carpet up in my shed and shot them with SEM colorcoat.

I used a piece of old carpet under the side panels to color match the paint. I shot it through an old HF HVLP gun. You can't really go wrong paining carpet unless you are like me and use all the paint then realize you forgot to paint the new back seat "back". Then you have to go get another can of colormatched paint that doesn't really match the first can. It is pretty close and way better than what was there so no biggie.

I sprayed one coat, let it dry, brushed the crap out of it with a stiff brush and sprayed it again to get the color even. It looks good and I will see how it holds up. I got a handful of ill fitting hatch carpet fasteners (a little too small but I got them to work) from the guy who sewed my seat for 5 bucks. I painted them to match.

Carpet removal and reinstall is pretty straight forward as well, just remove and replace. Total cost for carpet with hatch piece, paint, a can of spray glue, and new plastic carpet fasteners was about $100 bucks.
While the carpet was out I applied a few strategic pieces of "sound deadener in the hatch area. Actually, I used cheap ass Mcmaster Carr viscoelastic.
http://www.mcmaster.com/?error_redirect=true#catalog/118/3525/=kd9axe
Total cost was 30 bucks for a good size sheet.
While the rear quarters were out I installed some pioneer 6.5's in the rear speaker location. I cut out the cars sheetmetal for 6.5's, made a blank plate to cover the 4x6 hole, and added some sound deadener. Total speaker cost for cheap ass walmart speakers and HF nibbler tool was about $80 bucks.

While the rear quarters were out I tried to fix the curled up rear facing edge. I guess the vinyl shrinks and they curl up. I roughed up the cardboard that was flimsy and applied some fiberglass resin to firm it up then reguled and stapled the vinyl. It came out so-so. Better than before. Cost was 10 bucks for the resin.


While installing the new rear speakers I moved the old rear speakers to the front doors. I went ghetto and will never admit I did this but it works fine. I also added some sound deadener. Total cost was about 5 bucks for hardware as I had the speakers and sound deadener.


While I was installing all new speakers I decided to get rid of the cassette deck and get a cd player. I left the old broken antenna in the fenderwell since radio is a wasteland anyways.The new head unit was $99 bucks and it's bluetooth compatible.



I had painted the center console and console carpet brown last year so at least that was done.



Overall it was tedious work and not too much fun. I got sidetracked by the hurricane here, plus I work slow so I spent tons of time looking for stuff I lost, stuff I didn't lose, and stuff I never had. It also took lots of time letting paint dry, letting vinyl dry, letting resin dry,etc. My takeaway points from this exercise would be to not cheap out and make sure you order more paint that you need, and to verify that the seats you are buying are dry, don't smell, and are not rusted out before you drive to another state to collect them.
So if I can do it ( a hack with some cool tools and little dough) anyone can.
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1982 931- Stock with MBC at 8psi

Relax, all right? My old man is a television repairman, he's got this ultimate set of tools. I can fix it.

[Carrera RSR]

Great work the interior now looks $1,000,000 bucks!!
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1980 931 - forged pistons, Piper cam, K27/26 3257 6.10 hybrid turbo, 951 FMIC, custom intake, Mittelmotor dizzy & cam pulley, H&S exhaust, GAZ Gold, Fuch'ed, Quaife
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[joejax]

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I got nothin'
Uhhh...you got any pics?

[kcoyle]

Thanks, I think it came out pretty good too. The only problem is I'm afraid to let my kids back in!
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1982 931- Stock with MBC at 8psi

Relax, all right? My old man is a television repairman, he's got this ultimate set of tools. I can fix it.

[Joes924Racer]

Awesome i like this color so much more that black.
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1979 porsche 924 Na
1980 porsche Turbo 931GT Replica
Have u ever driven a turbo.

[lawaroy]

Wow great lookin interior well done. My only question is how do the door speakers sound with no grille cut out?
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[kcoyle]

[mhart]

Looks great!
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'87 924 S - No sunroof and a few modifications

[curtisr]

VERY nicely done.

BTW, if you ever part this out, I WAAAAAAAAAAAAAANT the door panels!!! Why, I'd even pay $1 quazillion!
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World's worst welder.

[morghen]

[Ponz]

Mr Coyle

I suggest you leave the speaker covers cover for the muffled sound.

This is to confuse the cops in case you have a body in back with a duct taped
mouth..


coodjopt.

vince
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77 1/2 track car
79 931 Euro
87 911 Targa

[kcoyle]

I probably won't need the duct tape, I have a wife sized freezer in the basment.
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1982 931- Stock with MBC at 8psi

Relax, all right? My old man is a television repairman, he's got this ultimate set of tools. I can fix it.