Vette rebuild progress...
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Vette rebuild progress...
Just a few pics of the Vette's progress... Mostly interior stuff.
We're just getting wrapped up with the suspension so hopefully pics of that soon.
Sorry if some are blurry. The interior was originally silver. We're going black all the way. Those are '03 Z06 seats, still not mounted but you get the idea.
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Re: Vette rebuild progress... (Jughead)
i REALLY like the gauges, been looking at options for a while,
i'm over in texas in a few weeks, any idea where i could pick them up from,
also, if you have the part numbers that would be great,
thanks,
neil
i'm over in texas in a few weeks, any idea where i could pick them up from,
also, if you have the part numbers that would be great,
thanks,
neil
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Re: Vette rebuild progress... (Jughead)
Nice seats too. Do they sit much higher than stock?
When the seat sits straight on the floor it's a nice height.
We're pulling the sliders off and are going to make a custom bracket for the drivers side. I'm 6 foot and my wife is 5'3" and so we need to find some sort of compromise on the whole adjustability thing.
The passenger side seat we're just going to bolt to the floor with some sort of custom non-sliding bracket. I figure you don't need to adjust it anyway.
We shall see. I might have to take the t-top interior panels off and upholster over it or something, I dunno.
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Re: Vette rebuild progress... (camaroneil)
i REALLY like the gauges, been looking at options for a while,
i'm over in texas in a few weeks, any idea where i could pick them up from,
also, if you have the part numbers that would be great,
thanks,
neil
i'm over in texas in a few weeks, any idea where i could pick them up from,
also, if you have the part numbers that would be great,
thanks,
neil
Total was around $550-600 for all of them. They still aren't wired in yet so we'll see how all that goes. :)
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Re: Vette rebuild progress... (Redshark6974)
very nice! what kind of strut rods are those silver ones?? they look :cool:
The loops are Dragvette 1/2 shaft loops.
I'm going to stick with the Van Steel struts I think. They fit a little nicer and will probably be more streetable than those heim joints on the Dragvette setup.
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Re: Vette rebuild progress... (phungus)
Forgot to mention, the wiring harnesses are all Lectric Limited pieces. I have a new dash, engine and forward lamp harness. Expensive stuff but my wires were all chewed to hell by rodents.
The lining inside is Thundermat. It's basically the same as Dynamat Xtreme. We're using a couple of layers all over.
The door panels as well as a lot of the other interior pieces are from CorvetteWorks. The interior was silver a couple of weeks ago. The parts we haven't replaced have been dyed black.
I need to get more and better pics of everything once it's all together.