More interior work done

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Not much new to report here. I did get some more carbon fiber work done on the console, and the "spears" for the side panels. I had the console lid plate Cerakoted gray to match the leather and have the cover behind the lid made and the sliding door done except for the CF on it. I've been working on the cargo area panels and after hours of staring at it trying to figure out what I wanted to do, and how to do it, I think I have a plan. Unfortunately, I have to re-make the plywood panels on top of the "package tray" area so that's another thing in the "did iyt twice" list.

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Your interior is really coming together well. Question for you: How is the leather fastened to the backside of the aluminum pieces? Specifically, the under dash valences you made. Is it just wrapped around and glued? Or is there a piece of ? added to staple to on the backside? I'm going to be dealing with the same thing with mine, and with the hot weather we have here in SoCal, that upholstery glue doesn't last the test of time. Curious how to avoid that with mine. Considering ways to attach a rubber strip on the backsides to staple to (similar to what is used to staple the edges of headliner).

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Question for you: How is the leather fastened to the backside of the aluminum pieces? Specifically, the under dash valences you made. Is it just wrapped around and glued? Or is there a piece of ? added to staple to on the backside?

Good glue should work fine even in high temps. Larry used some kind of superduper contact cement from 3M that I can hardly get off. He told me it was $200 a gallon and he hasn't found anything better. Javier says he uses the same stuff, but I'm not sure it's exactly the same. Yes, the valences are wrapped and glued. The leather on the top of the valences is actually pinched between the valence and the dash. The bottom is glued and wrapped. I didn't want any padding on the valences, and Larry balked at that but Javier did a great job on it.