...and the interior continues to go in…and out!

Tuesday, 12 June 2007 | Comments (8) | Categories: Engine, Interior

Sillbeer seating trial
Greg and I (me in passenger seat) checking out the seating positions

So the focus on the interior was kept up last week...this time in the form of the front seats, carpet and dashboard. To start off with, I remind some of you that I did purchase a new set of carpets sometime ago for Sillbeer. They were really nice and moulded to a point for the S13 floorpan. Unfortunately, it required a fair amount of time in marking with chalk the holes and cuts required to make it all fit correctly. Now when I purchased a used interior a little while back, a carpet also came with it. The colour was a darker grey than the original, but had a few stains and a lot of glass fragments spread throughout. I decided that after I had vacuumed and cleaned this one, I'd make a final decision on whether to use the new or old. The old one won. It came up a treat, and took all of 5 minutes to install.

S13 Carpet - nice and clean

As you can see from the photo, it came up very nicely and all the holes are exactly where they're meant to be. Next job was the seats - which are from an R34 Skyline GT-R. Reasons for these are comfort, height and OEM function. The only requirement (as with all GT-R to S13 seat fitment) was a modification to the rear outside seat mount. I had previously fabricated up a tab in mild steel to sit in the groove of the original seat mount, and after tracking down the 'Welding Gnome', had him TIG weld the tabs in place. A quick coat of black satin paint and an overnight dry, a search for the appropriate class of bolt and we chucked them in. Needless to say that due to my perfect marking, they bolted in without a hitch. See pics of the tabs:

- Fabricated tab sized and marked
- Tab TIG'd into place by the 'Welding Gnome'
- Fabricated tab painted and bolted in

Throttle cable bracket for GReddy Plenum

I mentioned previously that Greg had fabricated a new bracket up for the throttle cable so it fitted correctly on the GReddy Plenum. This was painted up and fitted, it should clear the bonnet easily while looking fantastic while it does it.

- Throttle Bracket from back/top
- Throttle Bracket from back
- Throttle Bracket from front
- Throttle Bracket with cable fitted

Nardi Deep Corn steering wheel

Another fitment in addition to the dashboard was the new Nardi Deep Corn steering wheel. This is a very stylish black leather jobby with the red stitching. I've used a genuine Nardi boss kit - but as I suspected (see pics), it's rear diameter doesn't cover the hole on the S13's steering column cover so I'll have to fabricate something to fit in there.

- Nardi horn button
- Nardi Deep Corn red stitching
- Dash and Steering wheel installed
- Nardi Boss Kit for S13 Box
- Nardi Boss Kit for S13 Front
- Nardi Boss Kit for S13 Back

The leather wheel I purchased from Yahoo Auctions in Japan, but I recently purchased a suede version of the Nardi Deep Corn for motorsport applications through a supplier on nissansilvia.com named 'natetune' at a very good price along with some pedals and the boss kit.

Other things done are the seat belts are now in - brand new from Klippan. I fitted the horns up to replace the tinny 'beep beep' ones that Silvia's usually come with. These have been tested, and they're more BMW spec than Barina now. And I ordered and received a nice black plastic air diversion plate for the radiator/intercooler air flow from High Octane (on their ebay store). Yesterday I took the rear seats, door trims, glove box, centre console lid, gear stick boot and handbrake boot down to Trimcare in Welshpool to be retrimmed in a material close to centre panel of the GT-R seats. Chris will be taking care of them all there and I should have back a week Friday. Some of these pieces will also be copping a logo I've designed for the car based around 'specB' which will also be placed at strategic locations on the body. The logo was designed with strong influence from the USDM Nissan Sentra SE-R specV.

This week while half of the interior is away, I'll finish off the boot Dynamat'ing now that I have had another box delivered, finish off the fuel system (delaying the Sard surge tank at this stage) and get it ready to turn over.

Drive safe.
Brendan

Your Comments

Posted by T Munday | 13 June 2007 at 09:34 AM

Jealous isn’t a grand enough word for the work performed.

That’s a real spiffy ‘spec B’ logo, much better looking then the version slapped on the S15.
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Posted by Brendan Underwood | 13 June 2007 at 07:42 PM

Thanks ‘t’. It sort of came together. Was originally going to be based on the Spec-S/Spec-R logos from the S15 - but then I came across this and it seems to suit much better.

Cheers
Brendan

Posted by daz | 13 June 2007 at 09:25 PM

hey man you got msn, im building a sil at the moment but nothing of this magnitude, have a couple questions for you if you wouldnt mind? smile

top work true dedication finished product will be awsome

Posted by Brendan Underwood | 14 June 2007 at 10:57 AM

If you found me through one of the web forums (nissansilvia.com, skylinesaustralia.com), PM me through one of those and I’ll give you my email addy.

Cheers
Brendan

Posted by jay | 21 June 2007 at 11:52 AM

Brendan,

Congrats on the progress made so far with the s13, personally i can’t wait to see the finished product when @ autosalon. Good luck.

I’ll be keen to see what you fabricate, and what material you’ll use to fit behind that nardi boss kit. Keep us upadted.

Cheers
Jay

Posted by Brendan Underwood | 25 June 2007 at 09:23 AM

Yeah thanks Jay. Still not 100% sure what we’ll do about it as yet, but the rest of the interior is looking really schmick.

Posted by Chunda | 6 August 2007 at 05:28 PM

hey Brendan

What boss kit did you have when it was at the autosalon??? it was large enough to cover the trim gap!!!

Posted by Brendan Underwood | 6 August 2007 at 05:34 PM

There’s a bit of info on this post:

http://www.sillbeer.com/2007/07/windows-with-view.html

I have a spare one too.

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