Witmer

Nothing too fancy, but all mods are DIY. The interior leather items came from Interior Innovations or Redlinegoods. The items that may be a little outside of the box include wiring up a homelink transmitter to the vanity light in the sun visor and adding heated seats with buttons in the ash tray cut out.

02BlownZ06

Love the heated seats and homelink option. How did you do the seats?

Rob 02

I have been looking for a red stitch A4 shifter **** and steering wheel. My plain black **** doesn't look right with my new boot. My steering wheel is showing some age and might stand out with a new interior I like the parking brake handle too. Where did you find them?

Your interior has a nice clean look.

johnandsarah002

I am having both my auto **** and brake handle done right now by interior innovations. They should be here by next week. I had to ship them my auto **** to have it redone. I am having them do both in alcantera with tan stitching. Check dsv for steering wheels, they do a great job

chasboy

In process of reinstalling DD Modded bezel, so overall pic not available, but her are a few details:

Witmer

I bought the seat skins from Interior Innovations and new seat foam from Mid-America. I followed the instructions from Vette Essentials to replace it all myself. http://www.vetteessentials.com/instr...structions.htm

I got the shift and e-brake ***** from Interior Innovations.
http://www.interior-innovations.com/...duct_detail/77

For the steering wheel cover, I used Redlinegoods.
Redline will send you the material for the ***** or the steering wheel and you then glue and stitch it yourself. I decided I did not want to sew my own steering wheel. They have an install option for $149. I bought a steering wheel core off of the forum, sent the core plus the cover to the Redline installer in NC, she mailed the completed wheel back to me. I had my local dealer swap the steering wheels. Then I resold my core on the forum to someone else who was doing the same thing.
http://www.redlinegoods.com/Steering...stallation.php

Vette Essentials is also good for steering wheels, but you have to provide a core.

irfangnosis

Quote:

Originally Posted by Witmer

The items that may be a littleoutside of the box include wiring up a homelink transmitter to the vanity lightin the sun visor and adding heated seats with buttons in the ash tray cut out.

What heat kit did you use? I cannot find a kit with pads small enough to fit the sport seats. Most of the china crap on ebay is way too big.

Witmer

Regarding heated seats...

I bought Rostra 250-1870 through ebay or a random vendor through a Google search. The kit provides all of the wires needed.



With the carpet out, I ran wires for heated seats. For power, I tapped into existing 10 amp fuses in the passenger foot well fuse box with ATM fuse taps (aka “add a circuit”). There are a number of fuses that would have worked with accessory power and I do not recall the exact fuse numbers but you can get the general idea from the picture.



I have active handling, so I could not locate the heater switches on the traction control panel. So, I decided to mount the switches in place of the ashtray. I used a switch plate designed by forum member “DanSavage”. If you Google “C5 corvette ashtray seat heater switch”, the first listing is for a vendor that will 3D print and ship this designed switch plate to you. The result is a factory-looking install.

Here is a picture of the switch plate and switches ready to go in (ignore the radio antenna adaptor).


The heating pads are installed between the foam and the seat skin. Here is a picture with one of the two seats finished. Notice the plugs hanging out the back of the new seat. Both plug into one adaptor and wire that runs to the switch plate.



Completed switches...

Witmer

What heat kit did you use? I cannot find a kit with pads small enough to fit the sport seats. Most of the china crap on ebay is way too big. [/QUOTE]

Rostra 250-1870
The length is made to be cut, but not the width. So if the heat pads are a little too long, you can trim them, no issues.

unlvrebel

Rostra 250-1870
The length is made to be cut, but not the width. So if the heat pads are a little too long, you can trim them, no issues.[/QUOTE]

Looks like the various pricing is for one unit - +/- $60... Dennis at Double D sourced some from Metra that were close to that price for two... Work great!

C5R USA

For a DIY project Tom, I'd be hard pressed to rate another interior that's better. Truly, a superb job from all angles. Nice work!!

Lil Blue Coupe

verrrry nice

I'm likin' those visors, did you cover them or did you have them done?
I am considering that for mine when I do the seat covers

-M

SuperTom

Thanks. Don't have $10K to spend on this stuff for those that send their stuff out. Not counting seats spent about a grand for all the pieces.

The first 2 pics are the most current with the tunnel switching to suede. Will have new door pieces soon with alcanatara centers

Rob 02

I see what you mean now. I emailed JF about this. I think they are working on it. They asked me to see pictures of my doors and I couldn't understand why. I guess they may have had other complaints.

Witmer

The visor covers are actually just a simple leather wrap secured with Velcro. Search ebay for "Made for 97-04 Corvette C5 Leather Sunvisor Cover SKIN". The seller is "kar-designers". Price is $65.

I opened my original visors to wire up the homelink and to make the floppy ears more sturdy. Instead of trying to sew it back up professionally, I just causally hand sewed the visor back together and then bought the leather wrap to match the other leather pieces in my car.

Rob 02

JF Customs contacted me this morning and apologized to me for the mistake on the passenger door fitment issue. They said they will send another one so it will be a week or so before I can start posting about my project.

Lil Blue Coupe

thanks, I am not familiar with the kar-designers, another reason I love the forum, I learn new stuff everyday!

-M

C5R USA

I hear you Tom. I don't have that kind of money either. Honestly, I would prefer to be able to install most of the items I purchase, being gone 6 weeks at a time traipsing across the country, and only home for a few days leaves me little choice but, to have someone else do the work for me or I'd never get a chance to unwind/relax.

Look forward to seeing your completed doors.

Take care,

Tom M.

Joepro95

corbeau evo x seats, redline goods arm rest cover, ebrake boot and handle, redline goods d ring steering wheel, and now redline good center console cover.

SuperTom

my work doesn't pay much but get a lot of vacation time. Take off a week each year to work on the interior of this