Interior Re-Do! New leather skins installed finally!
 

I finally got around to installing my new leather seat skins. I was very pleasantly surprised how well they fit. I got these from ebay:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/93-94...0QQcmdZViewItI

They had a "best offer" on the auction and I got them for $300 shipped! That was half the price that leatherseats.com wanted for their covers, and these fit awesome!

The install took me a full day (about 7 hours) for both seats, being my first time. The area right before the headrest on the sides was a bit wrinkled, but a few minutes with the heat gun and it shrunk the wrinkles to a reasonable level.

I also got a matching shift boot from Redline. I'm still waiting for time to get to the shop so I can weld up my Skunk2 weighted shift knob/lever, but the crappy domestic knob that's on there will do for now.

I had all the interior plastics sanded and painted black with a semi-gloss clear. It's a hair glossier than stock, but no one can tell. I didn't do the passenger door armrest and it's VERY close to matching perfectly. I also bought new chrome rings for the gauge cluster. It's actually NICE to be on the inside of this car now... haha

I threw in one crappy phone pic from work for giggles.

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Seats look great! Sweet car.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/93-94...Q5fAccessories

Are these the same ones?

Yes, those are the same ones.

If anyone would like to trade me a Mazda logo (flying M ?) airbag like from a Mazda 3, protege, Miata for my Nardi airbag, I'll trade straight up.

I'm not a JDM-tight-yo rare parts hoarder. I think I'd rather have the chrome "M" instead (as long as it's in good shape).

Fitment looks great. Hows the texture feel?

Much nicer than stock. The stock leather was very plastic-y feeling and thin. This is much softer, but still thick and tuff. After a good conditioning it's almost rubbery... without being cheap. Hard to describe, I guess. It's definitely how the stock leather SHOULD have felt.

Holly snap that looks good for a diy seat recovering. I want to get the seats in my FC done but I don't even know where to start. I have to have the bolstering redone as well so I think it will be pricy.... Man my restoration list is long.

Great job on the whole interior.

Lookin good man! A few hot days in the sun and those wrinkles will loosen up some more also.

-Austin

Thanks! Yea, some too-tall JERK p.o. (j/k Paul), shaved about an inch off the foam on the driver's side seat bottom because he couldn't fit his oafy head in the car with a helmet on. That ruined the leather cover and and just looked like crap. I found a used seat bottom cushion from a local that had terrible leather but firm foam. It's amazing what a mostly new seat feels like!

looks very nice :)

Those look as good if not better than the leatherseats.com ones. Great find and install.

Nice! looks great!

yes very noice, I was eye ballimg those same seat covers on ebay

wow looks very good!

Very nice! I should get these for my FC.