Interior Swap - Sure was interesting

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The car when i first bought it, Last year March:

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What it looked like in May this year:

The few things changed were: Upgraded OBC,'93 Model year side mirrors,rear reading

lights, stage 2 cams, chipped and fuel management. Oh and a better looking

headunit.




Since that i've upgraded all stock speakers and put a sub in the boot.

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Now to get to the point of the thread.
The main reason for me changing the interior, was becuase the material on the door

cards was pulling away and my seats were really worn. And ofcourse i got a very

good deal on the new interior!
PS. excuse the rubbish quality of the camera phone pics.

THis is at about 7am: started stripping. Had my brother and father helping out.

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Inspecting the "new" dash.


Little later on that day:


We had to replace the foam stuff ontop of the heater core as the stuff on there was

in pretty bad shape:


Here are both dashboards. We decided to take the wiring loom off my old one and use

it on the newer one. The reason for this is, that the newer dash had a few more

connectors, so we played it safe by swapping.

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This pic is of the highly advanced contraption for removing the old carpet. We

lifted the heater core using rope so we could get the carpet out without cutting it

(We had been advised to cut it becuase the people we bought the newer interior from

thought it impossible to do it any other way)


Here is the "new" carpet before being cleaned:

And here it is after:


This is the interior completely stripped:


Unfortunately i don't have any progress pics of us putting in the newer interior as

we were to busy actually installing it.

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Here are some pics of the newer interior installed. Word of advice: when installing

the newer carpet, we cut away some of the backing foam to be able to get it past

the heater core. We struggled for half an hour trying to get it in before figuring

that out.






Will try to get better pictures of the interior as soon as i can.

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One question i have: Do most US cars not come with this bit surrounding the number

plate?

[Evan]

Thanks for all the great photos and kudos on a nice looking swap.

US cars don't come with the rear license plate thingamajig... I've only seen them on Euro cars.

Where did you find the new carpet?

[skr]

way cool man. cagratulations on the swap. looks much better. i'm looking into that too, probably next year, curent interior is grey textile, looks good but i want black leather, black door panels, wood trim, etc. how much did it take you to do the swap?

[Uber Soldat]

There is a breakers yard not far from where we live.
We asked them to strip the entire interior from a car that came in with a front end smash.
So the carpet came with everything.

I was thinking about getting stuff like this and exporting to people that need it overseas.
My only problem would be shipping and that US cars are LHD.

The interior cost me about R2500 which equates to about 351 dollars i think.