Custom Interior

Very impressive. Nice creativity. I also see you made a meaninful stiffening effort in the area Goran Malmberg opined made the most improvement. That is the area where the windshield side posts mate to the roof. Nice work

I like where you're headed with this. The speedo and tach closer together is a great move. What will make or break the end result is how well the details are worked out. Looks closely at modern exotics, copy the stitching and edge details and you'll have a great result I think. Keep us posted!

Mark

I like the seats. Lotus? What is the mounting arrangement on them? Side mount? Looking good.

Looks like Lambo Muira influence here. I like! Keep the pictures coming.

Pretty cool, Dude. Very nice! I see the roll of fabric so I'm guessing its all fiberglass? I'm sure we'd all love to see some pics how you fabricated this.

Thanks all.

Seats are stock Lotus Exige probax seats. I love them, comfortable, supportive and let you sit really low (in addition to the drop floor pans). Custom brackets, all mounted on sparco sliders.

Seat set up is fantastic, I am 6' tall and have 4.5" of head room and seating position gives my forehead 14" to the halo bar, so no
real worries about the cage on the street.

Parts are a combination of fiberglass and alum. The rocker pieces are all fiberglass, the aft bulkhead, dash and consoles are combination of fiberglass and aluminum.

Sorry dont have any fabrication pictures.

Dave

great start. I also like the Raptor photobomb.

Quite nice. Really innovative. What is going next to the quad vertical cup holder?

Switch Panel is going in on the right.

keep us posted. I'd like to see the finished product

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Originally posted by JTpantera:
Very impressive. Nice creativity. I also see you made a meaninful stiffening effort in the area Goran Malmberg opined made the most improvement. That is the area where the windshield side posts mate to the roof. Nice work

I'd like to read more about Malmberg's ideas about body stiffening. Did he write an article or was it a serie of articles about stiffening somewhere? Would that be readable online or can a copy be bought somewhere?

And nice work on the interior.

-Sami

Look here: http://www.hemipanter.se/

Yes, I know his website. But I haven't found that A-pillar strenghtening mentioned there. Well, maybe I haven't read hard enough, lot's of info there...

Thanks though.

-Sami

I checked Goran's site and he has edited out the details of that section on stiffening the chassis. I am confident he would reply to an email looking for his past info.

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Originally posted by JTpantera:
I checked Goran's site and he has edited out the details of that section on stiffening the chassis. I am confident he would reply to an email looking for his past info.

OK, so there was more. Maybe I'll contact him directly.

Thanks, Sami

I like the way your gauges open up some leg room. The taper section of the stock panel loves to cut into my leg on long highway runs!!!!!
Jeff

Jeff,

Your absolutely right, I'm amazed how much space there is in the cabin right now, between the new console, drop floors, and lotus seats. I just need to work a bit more on moving the pedals forward and it would end up being great for touring.

Dave

Moving the pedals forward makes a HUGE difference. I know because I did it!

Here's the only source I know of, other than making your own, which isn't worth the effort if you can just buy one.

http://www.saccrestorations.ne...e-spacer-1-5-inches/

I found this item while poking around on SACC's web site.

Hi Hockeydude,
Very cool work man. I like it..!

Hi hockeydude.

Any Update on the interior?

Kjeld

The polished shift arm is sweet

I basically finished it up to the point where its good for upholstering and then moved onto other projects with my car. I'm pretty bad at wrapping things up 100%

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Originally posted by HockeyDude:
I basically finished it up to the point where its good for upholstering and then moved onto other projects with my car. I'm pretty bad at wrapping things up 100%

come on dude.... we need closure...

....at 8 years on this build I need closure too!!! I'm quite slow at this.

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....at 8 years on this build I need closure too!!! Smiler I'm quite slow at this.

Phew. Ok, I don't feel so bad.