The job started with kate and I removing all of the trim panels from Roxy on saturday. After waking up from quite possibly the best nap ever recorded, with bedhair and all, we got started with the gutting job.



So naked...


Best tags evar


I decided that with the rear seatbelts removed anyways, might as well fill up the c-pillar panel to clean up things.

Out with the fiberglass


Little resin with a tiny bit of flex agent


Degreasing the panels


Rough covering


Lil' bit of bondo with some more flex agent


Perfecto.




The before shot. Picking fabric was tough but kate had a great idea of using black denim. It has a cool weave and is a little more unique than fake designer knockoff fabric and the ever so played suede =)


Remove the factory fabric and prepare for the worst job of your life. Scrubbing off the foam padding.
Ugh, I would rather get a root canal than to do that again...


Spray both sides. Spray the fabric and then spray the headliner. Wait 5 minutes! The glue has to dry up a bit and get tacky.


Go slow. There's no rush. Do 2' sections at a time and if the fabric doesn't stretch enough, break out the hair dryer on high heat to loosen everything up. The hair dryer also gets the dried glue sticky again if you have taken too much time.


Once you have everything conformed to the headliner, flip the whole thing over and trim up the edges and inside areas.




Final product after a little bit more hairdrying to get the wrinkles out.

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