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Post by Oliver Rooney on Aug 23, 2017 22:11:54 GMT
Anyone have any good recomendations as of the minamalist center console. With the carpet and console end cap? Anyone selling somthing second hand or know anywhere to get one cheaper ? Know garadge star make one for 140 odd and one or two others at that price.
For me its a little steep, but i really want one, just wondering if i will have to bite the bullet a d buy one when my wallet allows it !
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Post by lowender on Aug 24, 2017 8:16:07 GMT
I'm looking into this too at the moment. The Garage Star one is much too expensive for what it is. The best bit about it is the end cap thingy - it's available separately from Garage Star, but they want more than fifty quid for it, and it's on backorder. So I'm in the process of doing a diy ghetto version - couple of quids worth of carpet from Car Builder Solutions, and an end cap knocked up from a piece of leftover heat shield material. I'll let you know how I get on. There's also a chap in Australia that does one - you can get the stainless end cap on it's own (with or without window switches) and a template to cut your own carpet: omgpham.com/store/centre-console-delete-kit |
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Post by Oliver Rooney on Aug 24, 2017 14:37:36 GMT
I'm looking into this too at the moment. The Garage Star one is much too expensive for what it is. The best bit about it is the end cap thingy - it's available separately from Garage Star, but they want more than fifty quid for it, and it's on backorder. So I'm in the process of doing a diy ghetto version - couple of quids worth of carpet from Car Builder Solutions, and an end cap knocked up from a piece of leftover heat shield material. I'll let you know how I get on. There's also a chap in Australia that does one - you can get the stainless end cap on it's own (with or without window switches) and a template to cut your own carpet: omgpham.com/store/centre-console-delete-kitCool, let me know how you get on and yea il have a look round, tempted to try and make my own tbf ! |
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Post by lowender on Aug 24, 2017 16:54:23 GMT
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Post by NurseHolliday on Aug 25, 2017 14:45:30 GMT
Looks awesome!
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Post by atlex on Aug 25, 2017 15:18:08 GMT
There's meant to be a method where you take a piece of carpet (possibly parcel shelf) and can trim something very good out of it to use on the tunnel. I forgot where I saw the instructions tho -)
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Post by atlex on Aug 25, 2017 15:19:06 GMT
Finished this today, total cost about a tenner.    Damn, that appears to be it. And you did it so well. Fantastic job. |
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Post by NurseHolliday on Aug 25, 2017 16:31:47 GMT
Finished this today, total cost about a tenner. any chance you've got the measurements or template you used? |
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Post by lowender on Aug 25, 2017 19:12:24 GMT
Finished this today, total cost about a tenner. any chance you've got the measurements or template you used? TBH, I didn't make a template. I started to try and make one out of paper, but it was too awkward. In the end I just got a couple of metres of cheap lightweight car carpet from CBS (one metre will be enough): www.carbuildersolutions.com/uk/lightweight-carpet-from-a-roll-black-per-metreIt's quite floppy, and easy to handle. I started with the gear-lever hole (4.5" diameter, I found a paint pot and drew round it) a few inches from the end of the carpet, stuck it over the gear lever, and trimmed the carpet to fit everywhere else with a pair of scissors. The handbrake lever hole is just a slit, cut in situ. The carpet isn't exactly hard wearing, so I'll probably replace it with something more substantial in time, using my ghetto one as a template. The end cap thingy was made out of an offcut of heat shield I had left over from doing my exhaust manifold:  It's very easy to form with just your fingers. I bent it to shape in situ, trimmed it with strong scissors, and glued a piece of the carpet onto it. It screws to the bottom of the tombstone using the original centre console fixing points. I got the heat shield stuff over the counter at Merlin at Combe: www.merlinmotorsport.co.uk/p/cirrus-giii-3-layer-heat-shield-material-aero-cir-sIf I'd known it was this easy, I would have done it years ago. Weight saving: just under 1.5 kg + more elbow room. Result! |
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Post by minty on Aug 27, 2017 21:27:12 GMT
Someone selling a Barchetta shorty console on Facebook.
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Post by Oliver Rooney on Aug 28, 2017 23:21:12 GMT
Looks awsome man temped to do the carpet myself over the weekend aha !
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Post by Ptichka on Aug 29, 2017 20:45:06 GMT
There's a thread on one of the US forums with the template for using a piece of parcel shelf carpet. That's what mines made out of  |
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Post by Ptichka on Aug 29, 2017 20:47:08 GMT
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Post by Oliver Rooney on Sept 30, 2017 22:22:58 GMT
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Post by melx5 on Oct 1, 2017 0:18:39 GMT
Be careful if you use one of the online templates for shaping your carpet. I marked mine out, cut it and it wasn't even close.
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le sigh