rx7 cupholder project
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rx7 cupholder project
well it's been a week and i find i'm missing cup holders.
I took some measurements and fab'd up a cardboard mock up for testing purpose. It sits down inside my arm rest and the lid can close over it no problem. I'll see how this goes and then fab one up in plastic.
I took some measurements and fab'd up a cardboard mock up for testing purpose. It sits down inside my arm rest and the lid can close over it no problem. I'll see how this goes and then fab one up in plastic.
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yeah it would be removable and will also be a full bottomed and sided box so if there is a spill in sits inside the plastic "box" instead of ruining your center console.
so far it has been working well and even held an almost full pop can when i lost traction doing a U-turn, I'm gonna make the plastic one as soon as i get a chance. I'm gonna post up the plans as well so anyone can make it.
so far it has been working well and even held an almost full pop can when i lost traction doing a U-turn, I'm gonna make the plastic one as soon as i get a chance. I'm gonna post up the plans as well so anyone can make it.
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yeah i drove it today a few times. Once with an XL tim hortons coffee cup and once with a can of coke and both times it was fine. The cup gets in the way of your elbow some time but it's easy to hold your arm a bit differently and not hit it.
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question for the S5 owners or anyone with experience with the S5 arm rest. does your lid(?) hit the passenger seat when opened? I don't have the bars to hold up the cover but even with it, it'll fail to stay open because it hits the passenger seat... is this normal or is something off in my car?
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question for the S5 owners or anyone with experience with the S5 arm rest. does your lid(?) hit the passenger seat when opened? I don't have the bars to hold up the cover but even with it, it'll fail to stay open because it hits the passenger seat... is this normal or is something off in my car?
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Originally Posted by mazdadude7
i just dont eat or drink in my car? so i dont need a set of cupholders?
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For my s5, I have been toying with the idea of relocating my mirror switch, fog light switch and security light to the dash somewhere, and replace the empty trim panel with a cupholder from an entirely different vehicle. I bet there's a salvage yard car that has something I can "graft in".....I am fairly adept at seemless integration where it involves the use of plastics. I know, it seems like a lot of work to do all that for a cupholder, but I'm driven by challenges like these. If I should come up with something that looks really good, I'll do a writeup with pics.
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I've been wanting to get a cup holder also lately, I go look at them every time im at autozone, but the cheap ones are just that, cheap junk that looks like a cup will fly out of them, and the expensive ones look like the cheap junk ones that might work a bit, but I dont want to pay 10 bucks for a cup holder that slides into my vents.
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...buy a drinking/eating station thingy from walmart/autozone/advance lol. I have one in my storage bin, fits perfectly in there. It has 2 cupholders and space for food, kinda looks like this
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I have drinks in there when I take on ramps at double the suggested speed limit, best thing the previous owner bought for the car
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I have drinks in there when I take on ramps at double the suggested speed limit, best thing the previous owner bought for the car
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I looked at doing that also, but was worried if anything spilled it would get sucked into the CD player and kill it.