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Re: Locobob's Interior Mod Thread

Now I know what wheel I want.. How much was it?

Re: Locobob's Interior Mod Thread

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Originally Posted by -=Jeff=- (Post 186211)

Now I know what wheel I want.. How much was it?

Crowders has them 10% off - list was like $295ish
It's a really nice wheel in person, high quality/feels great, the online pics don't really do it justice.

Re: Locobob's Interior Mod Thread

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Originally Posted by Locobob (Post 186195)

Here is the new steering wheel: Momo Commando... hub kit wasn't in the box so I guess it is shipping separately.

http://i418.photobucket.com/albums/p...1/IMG_0332.jpg

Matches the factory red fairly well... I think it has a little less orange in it
http://i418.photobucket.com/albums/p...1/IMG_0338.jpg

love that wheel! looking to go "mod red" in my 95 ZR-1 and this is the bomb. kinda hate giving up the air bag but like Ron White says

"make sure you hit something hard, I don't want to limp away from this"

the way I drive the air bag isn't gonna make much difference!

also thinking of "doing away" with the valet key switch and just use a plain old c4 piece. I don't have secondaries and can just throw it behind the valence piece.

let me know how well the carbon fiber wrap works. like to try that too.

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Originally Posted by Locobob (Post 186203)

Perhaps some of you electrically savvy types can help me with a few things. I have the heated seat kit on the way, comes with switch so should just be a two wire install. Anyhow I have this unused connector under each seat which is for the sport seat lumbar and side bolsters - which I don't have. I think it will be perfect for the seat heaters.... except that it is always hot.
http://i418.photobucket.com/albums/p...1/IMG_0313.jpg

So I got to thinking... I could replace this connector with a relay - use the pink/black switched acc. wire to operate the relay and problem solved... seat heaters would be keyed power. The big orange coming in is on a 30amp breaker, the seat heaters use 3-5amps each. Then I got to thinking some more, perhaps I should also take power off this new relay for the switch panel I'm installing. I'm kinda concerned that the little 16 or 18 gauge pink/black wire is not going to like running both a radar detector, gps, third switch and operating the relay.

The pink/black should be fine to operate the relay as all it is doing is energizing a coil to close the contacts for the heavier wires, What I would do is run the pink/black to each heater switch to power it then run the switch to the relay, use the relay is the switch to the heating element

quick and dirty diagram:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...uick%20pic.png

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I like the heated seat approach Robert especially where you live you need it. I went old school with custom sheepskins it does the job for me in AZ.

I agree on the bezel as unmolested ones are HTF. I had the luxury of being able to carbon fiber mine as it was already trimed for the radio. If mine had not been pre cut using a stock one for your project just makes sense.

are you going with the hidden V1 display in the DIC? One of my best modding decisions and I know Andrew would still make you one. Any thoughts on the orange selfdimming LED compass mirror? You can see the hidden V1 display in my picture below with the rubber reset button and the bottom of the compass mirror

GC

http://i1120.photobucket.com/albums/...ps29c79ca3.jpg

Re: Locobob's Interior Mod Thread

Locobob,

could you take a picture of the new wheel over the OEM wheel? I would like to see the size difference..

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Originally Posted by -=Jeff=- (Post 186231)

Locobob,

could you take a picture of the new wheel over the OEM wheel? I would like to see the size difference..

The new wheel is 350mm or a bit under 14in, you can see that the center section is much less bulky so viewing the center cluster ought to be easier - currently with my wheel in the up position the bottom of the display is blocked a little.
Ron - I'm not too concerned about losing the airbag... it's 20+ years old so who knows if it even works anymore not to mention that airbag technology in the early 90's wasn't exactly stellar to begin with.

http://i418.photobucket.com/albums/p...8/IMG_0349.jpg

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Originally Posted by -=Jeff=- (Post 186219)

Quick and dirty? I'll show you quick and dirty lol... this is what I was envisioning.
http://i418.photobucket.com/albums/p...obob68/IMG.jpg

I'm looking at 8a 145-0

My thought was to use the lumbar circuit to provide power for all the accessories around the center console since its a much bigger wire than the little pink/black acc wire. Any reason this is a bad idea???

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Does anyone know where I can get a couple of these metal clips? They are broken off on my replacement bezel.
http://i418.photobucket.com/albums/p...8/IMG_0347.jpg

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Working on getting my head unit lined up with the bezel, its kind of a pain in the *** since you can only get to one on the bracket screws without pulling the unit out of the dash. Basically its adjust bracket, slide into dash, put on bezel, note what direction things need to go, pull out, adjust bracket, repeat. I'm using the Metra install kit 99-3051, the brackets are plastic which isn't great but I think it'll work.

http://i418.photobucket.com/albums/p...8/IMG_0345.jpg

http://i418.photobucket.com/albums/p...8/IMG_0343.jpg