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| Author: | XLarge [ Sat Nov 08, 2014 12:53 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Carlos Sainz #1946 or "5 years of burning money" |
Sometimes all you need is luck. Stumbled over an offer of a 10 Speaker upgrade package on facebook. Wasn´t expensive but the shipping from the US doubled the price.  All the speakers are missing, but I will use better modern ones anyway. The front tweeter covers was missing too, but I could buy a set of them from a breaker in UK . 
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| Author: | Sunny [ Sun Nov 09, 2014 6:54 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Carlos Sainz #1946 or "5 years of burning money" |
Hi, no more words http://youtu.be/eDg2sJ9JpCg haaaa  greetz |
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| Author: | cms-gt4 [ Sun Nov 09, 2014 7:04 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Carlos Sainz #1946 or "5 years of burning money" |
Get the front tweeter covers from the dealer. Most have broken tabs from being removed, which will prevent then from sitting right and often falling off when closing the door. They are cheap enough new. |
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| Author: | XLarge [ Sun Nov 09, 2014 8:07 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Carlos Sainz #1946 or "5 years of burning money" |
cms-gt4 wrote: Get the front tweeter covers from the dealer. Most have broken tabs from being removed, which will prevent then from sitting right and often falling off when closing the door. They are cheap enough new. They´re still avaible ? Do You have the part numbers ? Unpacked the set I bought and one indeed got a broken tab.
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| Author: | cms-gt4 [ Sun Nov 09, 2014 9:51 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Carlos Sainz #1946 or "5 years of burning money" |
Try these: 67491-20190 67492-20250 http://www.toyodiy.com/parts/p_U_1992_T ... _6701.html I bought some a couple years back since all the ones I collected from wreckers had broken tabs. |
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| Author: | XLarge [ Sun Nov 09, 2014 10:16 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Carlos Sainz #1946 or "5 years of burning money" |
I´ve got in contact to Matt, who sold me the covers. He will send me a intact cover on his costs. But I´ll check if the covers are still available new in the next days. |
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| Author: | XLarge [ Mon Nov 24, 2014 2:14 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Carlos Sainz #1946 or "5 years of burning money" |
Had a week off from work, so I started my winter project:  Now my CS is at the body shop who did the shell repair after the crash in 2011 to got the base plates for the roll cage welded in. |
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| Author: | TrackToyFour [ Mon Nov 24, 2014 4:41 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Carlos Sainz #1946 or "5 years of burning money" |
Look forward to seeing the base plate pics. I presume you have given them the cage so they can fabricate a perfect fit? 
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| Author: | XLarge [ Mon Nov 24, 2014 6:38 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Carlos Sainz #1946 or "5 years of burning money" |
Yes. Brought them the car, the cage, one seat and one belt and will drive there this or next week so they can weld in the thread plates for the lower belt fitting to my body. |
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| Author: | XLarge [ Wed Dec 03, 2014 6:50 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Carlos Sainz #1946 or "5 years of burning money" |
Received my car back today.   Was a good decision to bring it to a professional to get the base plates welded in. They still had to invest some fabrication work in the plates. The lower front ones where copied, equipped with welded in nuts and got welded to the undersite of the floor pan addtional to the ones that came with the cage that are welded to the inside of the car:  They also made new plates for the rear end as the cage was a bit too short. They fabricated thick plates with integrated threads and welded them to the suspension domes:  The upper fixing plates that came with the cage was welded in as scheduled:  The space behind the seat is extremly limited so I let them cut off the extension brackets for the optional front extensions to make a full rollcage out of the rear cage:  As next I´ll test fit the roof liner and the side panels to see what I´ll have to cut away. Than the cage will be took out and will get painted Porsche Firnweiss like the car is outside. |
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| Author: | XLarge [ Wed Mar 11, 2015 12:43 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Carlos Sainz #1946 or "5 years of burning money" |
Next step to complete the puzzle again:  Also had the front bumper skin at the paint shop with the cage. Needed a respray to eliminate the cracks from the hit&run last season. Already cutted out the panels, the roof liner and the carpet for the cage. Now I´m waiting for some carpet dye to dye the faded carpet before I put it back in. |
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| Author: | XLarge [ Fri Mar 13, 2015 11:45 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Carlos Sainz #1946 or "5 years of burning money" |
The carpet dye arrived yesterday so I forced me out of bed early today to dye the carpet before work. Was extremly simple. The dye covered the stains very well and dried super fast. The fibers became a bit stiff from the dye but get soft again when moved after the dye dried fully. Before:  and after: 
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| Author: | cms-gt4 [ Fri Mar 13, 2015 11:53 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Carlos Sainz #1946 or "5 years of burning money" |
I am likely going to do the same with my carpet. Seems the aftermarket only makes new carpet for fwd model. |
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| Author: | XLarge [ Sat Mar 14, 2015 1:30 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Carlos Sainz #1946 or "5 years of burning money" |
Never believed to find a new one I could effort so I´ve searched a good used one for years. All I could find was the faded, dirty one above. Pressure washed it and dyed it so it was good enough. Decided to change the colour from grey to black as black will suit the Recaros better and I will use black carpet for the rear floor again anyway. |
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| Author: | TrackToyFour [ Sat Mar 14, 2015 2:04 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Carlos Sainz #1946 or "5 years of burning money" |
Nice job of fabricating the cage install  Interesting to hear of your experience with the fitting of the pre-fabricated cage not being exact. This experience isn't unique to Safety Devices. Unless you get the cage built into the shell then you really have to be prepared to do some extra fabrication to get the fitment right.
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