Cutrara's Interior, Update: 12/26/08 Options

[pepsiman]

great looking interior, i like your tweeter placement.
and the leather looks amazing

[Cutrara]

I ordered an amp (decided not to go with Alpine) and wiring kit. Should be here Friday, I'll put it in along with the rear speakers. Gotta run out and buy speaker wire, terminals, etc. I think I'm also going to run some 4AWG under the hood (battery-chassis ground, alt-chassis ground, etc) for better grounds.

[Cutrara]

Well, I've been doing a little work on the Celica the past few days. I upgraded "The big three" with 4GA wire under the hood and wired the amp on sunday, and mounted and drilled all my holes for my wiring and installed the seat heater switches today. The seat heaters are STILL not wired (who cares though, it's was pretty warm today) but the switches are in.


Here you can see the 4GA wire from the alternator go around the radiator...


...to the battery, and the battery ground to chassis. The alternator bracket/chassis wire is not pictured.

Here are some pics of the amp install:






I also set the gains on the amp using a 1000hz tone to listen for clipping. It's REALLY loud when you do this, and all of my neighbors were probably like "wtf is this kid doing"

I had my roommates drill so I drilled the holes for the seat heater switches:

[Batman722]

switches look good Alex

[Cutrara]

Finally wired the seat heaters yesterday, I drove around with the A/C on and the seat heaters on haha, they feel great. Also picked up a ground loop isolator today, my front speakers had a little bit of alternator whine. It fixed it right up, but one of these days I really need to rewire the whole car and ground things to the same place.

[gt_driFFter]

The amp install looks good, looks a lot how I did mine. Did you buy a new battery clamp to add on for the big3 upgrade? I couldnt do switches there, I actually use my cupholders haha

[RickJamesBish]

The install looks good, but clean that interior up a bit.

[Cutrara]

Finally replaced my crappy carpc screen and stereo with a lilliput screen. I followed tomazws' how-to here.

a few pics:










I also re-did my headliner and sprayed my visors with fabric dye. The flash makes it look lighter than it is, but it looks pretty good IRL.

[enderswift]

interior god.

tell me about the headliner, ive done one before but it was such a pita to make it look decent, how did you go about it and does it look as oem as in the pics?

[RickJamesBish]

I'm assuming you had to take the headliner off to spray it?

[Cutrara]

took the headliner down, removed the gray cloth, sprayed the backing with 3m spray glue and laid out the new headliner material and pulled out the wrinkles. I'm going to re-do it again sometime down the road because it didn't turn out as well as I had hoped. I also want to have the visors recovered in black (professionally)... I just spray dyed them and they are a little scratchy. but it will have to do for now.

[RickJamesBish]

Would love to get some info and pics on how to get it down, my sunroof controls need some TLC.

[Akirad1]

me and spider77 are actually working on a how to right now since we replaced my sunroof motor and relay yesterday

[RickJamesBish]

So post up a thread with pics and ish, I'm sure there's a bunch of people that need them.

[Cutrara]

To remove the headliner, remove the mirror, dome light/sunroof controls, the visors and their clips, then there are 3 fasteners in the rear that just pop out. Then with a little manuevering the headliner will come out, you can remove the a-pillar plastic if you want, or you can just pull it back.

[RickJamesBish]

But isn't it glued in as well?

[Akirad1]

no its not its just a piece of cardboard like stuff really, its really easy and pretty much common sense once you start doing it.

[RickJamesBish]

Alrigh then, that also explains why mine sags a bit around the three clips.

[stephen_lee]

i used printer ink refills and alcohol in a spray bottle to redye my seats in my integra. came out nicely

[Akirad1]

o the headliner howto is in the sunroof topic