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Author Topic: Priya's SX/4 project  (Read 372961 times)

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Offline mudkicker715

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Re: Priya's SX/4 project
« Reply #375 on: April 30, 2011, 08:12:15 PM »
commented cause I thought I had it. Answer is no



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Re: Priya's SX/4 project
« Reply #376 on: May 01, 2011, 09:24:09 AM »
Are you talking the outside piece that goes around the wheel well and fits over the edge of the Kryton flare ?

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Re: Priya's SX/4 project
« Reply #377 on: May 01, 2011, 11:29:13 AM »
Are you talking the outside piece that goes around the wheel well and fits over the edge of the Kryton flare ?

Yes.

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Re: Priya's SX/4 project
« Reply #378 on: May 02, 2011, 09:11:59 AM »
Cool, I'll have a look,I think I remember keeping all the trim etc off of the parts rig I had.

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Re: Priya's SX/4 project
« Reply #379 on: May 02, 2011, 12:44:48 PM »
Sweet!  I've got my fingers crossed.

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Re: Priya's SX/4 project
« Reply #380 on: May 02, 2011, 02:10:43 PM »


        HI     you said the wagon tram wont  work  .............Don
HI.....A BAD DAY WITH YOUR EAGLE IS BETTER THAN A GOOD DAY AT WORK ...A GOOD DAY WITH YOUR EAGLE IS PRICELESS

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Re: Priya's SX/4 project
« Reply #381 on: May 02, 2011, 03:24:31 PM »


        HI     you said the wagon tram wont  work  .............Don

No, I've got one from a wagon and its about 6 inches too short.

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Re: Priya's SX/4 project
« Reply #382 on: May 02, 2011, 05:14:13 PM »


   HI    All I have is wagon trim    sorry Don
HI.....A BAD DAY WITH YOUR EAGLE IS BETTER THAN A GOOD DAY AT WORK ...A GOOD DAY WITH YOUR EAGLE IS PRICELESS

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Re: Priya's SX/4 project
« Reply #383 on: May 16, 2011, 09:26:56 PM »
Some things are getting done on the SX/4.  Since this is going to be a winter car I decided to add a bit of insulation to it.  I found some rolls of ducting insulation, sticky one side, aluminum foil the other.  So far I've done the doors and roof:



I had my headliner recovered some months back.  I was initially thinking of replacing it with a blue similar to the original but the upholstery shop I went to didn't have any headliner material at all similar to the original shade so hubby suggested purple like the carpet.  I looked through the books and found a purple not too far off the shade of the carpet.  Once again there was no purple headliner material so the fabric needed to have some stretch to it and have a foam liner glued to the headliner and then the fabric glued to that.  I decided to leave this one up to the upholstery shop and they did the headliner and also recovered my sun visors in the same material:



After a great deal more of a fight than I was prepared for Ward and I finally got it all installed today.  Here's how it looks now:


As you can see the camera is really playing tricks with the colour, the actual colour is about midway between the shades shown in the two pictures above.
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Re: Priya's SX/4 project
« Reply #384 on: May 16, 2011, 09:57:02 PM »
Where did you find the insulation at? Did it affect the fit of the headliner at all? Looks great by the way!

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Re: Priya's SX/4 project
« Reply #385 on: May 16, 2011, 10:18:27 PM »
Where did you find the insulation at? Did it affect the fit of the headliner at all? Looks great by the way!

I got it at the local Co-op hardware store in the heating/ductwork section.  Any hardware store should have it.  It didn't affect the fit of the headliner at all.

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Re: Priya's SX/4 project
« Reply #386 on: May 22, 2011, 09:47:30 PM »
That's turning into one very cool ride  8)

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Re: Priya's SX/4 project
« Reply #387 on: May 22, 2011, 10:11:52 PM »
I might be coming some SX/4 chrome in the next month or so. I'll keep you posted if you haven't already found some.

I have two or three sets off of a wagon, but you said those won't fit?

Anyways, really looking forward to seeing the finished product, maybe you could make it to the Calgary eagle meet at the end of July.
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Re: Priya's SX/4 project
« Reply #388 on: May 22, 2011, 10:34:37 PM »
hello priya. i looked and i do not have a crome one here. sorry

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Re: Priya's SX/4 project
« Reply #389 on: May 23, 2011, 12:19:57 PM »
I might be coming some SX/4 chrome in the next month or so. I'll keep you posted if you haven't already found some.

I have two or three sets off of a wagon, but you said those won't fit?

Anyways, really looking forward to seeing the finished product, maybe you could make it to the Calgary eagle meet at the end of July.

Thanks for keeping me in mind Mechanic, you're correct, the wagon pieces won't fit, they're too short.  I'll see what I can do about getting the Eagle done before the end of July.

hello priya. i looked and i do not have a crome one here. sorry

Thanks for looking.

 

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