This past weekend's project...

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After:

 

Did you put the new material on your self? If so how did you do it and what did you use?

James

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If the women don't find you handsome they should at least find you handy

 

James-did it myself and used a nice leather-grain vinyl w/cloth backing. I wrote a step-by-step procedure for the entire process, including pics. Am working on getting that uploaded to the 'net-either to my FTP site or possibly another "host". Will reply back here with the link once it's up; it shouldn't take much longer.

 

Thats a big improvment. Looks very good. Cant wait to know how to do it myself.

 

Very nice - you should submit your article to the "Technical Articles" section...

Steve

 

Will do Steve.

 

WOW Man! Looks SOO sweet!!
well done!

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'89 Formula 305 TPI T-5
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Submitted my article for the Tech section last night. Look for it soon?

 

hi i was just wonderin if you could tell me how you done this and where you got the material to do it with and what was the cost thank you

 

AAustin50, hey dude Im in Winston Salem, NC.
My door panels look just like yours did, I have got mine off the doors but I cant find anyone to do my panels, I really would like to have the done, how the hell do I do them?,,,,maybe you can do them for me, I'll pay ya....


How bout e-mailin me the article, thanks man
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wishmister@yahoo.com

1987 White IROC-Z
305 TPI LB9
700-R4 auto tranny
87,000 miles
Very Clean car
Performance Resource Chip
Flowmaster Muffler
Throttle Body Coolant bypass
TPIS air Foil
K&N's
Gutted air box
Accel 8.0 plug wires
Moroso Super Coil
Blue Streak Cap and Rotor
AC Delco Rapidfire plugs
Mobil 1 15/50 Synthetic motor oil
Mobil 1 synthetic Trans fluid.

[This message has been edited by Wishmaster's87IROC (edited October 08, 2000).]

 

Wishmaster: I sent the article to Dirk, as well as two other 3rdgen sites. Hopefully it will be posted on one of the Tech boards soon...

Regardless, I'll e-mail you a copy of it this week. I think once you read through the procedure and check out the pictures you'll find that it's not very difficult. I think you'd get alot more satisfaction from doing it yourself but I'd consider doing them for you.

 

You can send me the article and I'll put it on my site(<a href="http://www.3gc.net">3gc.net</a>) within a day. My email address is webmaster@3gc.net.

 

3GC, Wishmaster and IROC_Z28: you've got mail (door panel resto procedures). Let me know if you have any trouble opening the file.

3GC: nice web site! Please feel free to convert the Word document I sent you to HTML so that others can easily view it from your site. Thanks!

 

Hey Austin, I got your zip and it opened up just fine, I really apreciate you sending me the file but I got one question.....what or should I say how did you re-fasten the strip going down the middle of the panel? It doesnt say anything about that in your instructions. Let me know and thanks again.

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wishmister@yahoo.com

1987 White IROC-Z
305 TPI LB9
700-R4 auto tranny
87,000 miles
Very Clean car
Performance Resource Chip
Flowmaster Muffler
Throttle Body Coolant bypass
TPIS air Foil
K&N's
Gutted air box
Accel 8.0 plug wires
Moroso Super Coil
Blue Streak Cap and Rotor
AC Delco Rapidfire plugs
Mobil 1 15/50 Synthetic motor oil
Mobil 1 synthetic Trans fluid.

 

Very nice job!!

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FORMULA 350 TK
Southern California 3rd Generation F-Body Organization©

 

Thanks for the complement and for sending the file. It should be up later tommorow. I'm almost done with the html, just have to edit the pictures some and I'll be done.

 

You can re-sew it (which I didn't do because I don't access to an industrial type machine), carefully glue it down or just leave it like it is. After I glued the new fabric down (making sure I tucked enough under the seam), this trim piece layed down nicely on top of the new fabric. You can't really tell it's not re-sewn, especially if you don't cut the top threads of the trim piece-(ONLY cut the threads on the back of the panel, and only cut the top half of the threads), and make sure you pull it tight so that it won't sag. You could also carefully glue it down on top of the new fabric if you wanted to do it that way. The adhesive I used sticks like super-glue, so that ought to work ok. It would be a real b*tch to try sew it by hand through the fabric, foam backing and hardboard backing. This trim piece really serves no purpose other than to cover up the seam between the top and bottom halves. And I couldn't talk the wife into sewing for me either.


Thanks for the complement Tom K.

 

The articles up.
That things very detailed, you must of put allot of work into it.

<a href="http://www.3gc.net">3gc.net</a>

 

Very cool.

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1986 Chevy 3/4 ton pick up
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1995 Kawi ZX6R

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Thanks for taking the time to put the article on your site 3GC. It must've been a pain in the **** with all the pictures, etc., but I appreciate the effort!