Alfa Romeo Spider 3.7L 24V V6 Build

[nykwhy2]

Where are you from?

[Noi5eB0mb]

Those heater switches don't fit with the rest of the interior, they look "out of line", if you get what I mean. What kind of switches are you thinking of going with? Customizing those (sounds like a difficult task given the shape and size of them)? Or getting other ones?

Also, (don't call me captain obvious lol) your shifter is missing it's knob. What I have in mind, is this

without the shiny plastic part on the top, and wrapped in swede or another material of your choice. Another suggestion would be that since your steering wheel is from MOMO, and this shifter is from MOMO, (let's assume that you're going with this knob or a similar one from MOMO), you could work some magic and keep the logo on the knob but yet, style it up to match the rest of the interior.

Eagerly waiting for more updates

[street]

Update

Finished up late last night and was too tired to post.

At any rate, I fabricated another panel and ended up with a single unit. My challenge? Make it look simplistic, stark but not boring. Along with the new single curved panel, I tightened up the shifting port to it's bare minimum to work better with the bag, added the window switches and wrapped it again in new suede. Don't be fooled by the shadows. They are making the gaps look twice as large. They're actually only out by a fraction.

What's next? Well I'll also be slotting in a section of vinyl with two slits behind the climate controls to also tighten up that section. As well as the needed frames around both shifter and climate controls.

The area that needs attention now, is the exterior surround/frame of the entire curved panel with the new one piece design. This is what I'll be leaving exclusively for my interior guy to do. The best route, would be to replicate the depth that the central gauges and head-unit have. To do this, Terry (trimmer) can easily build up on top of the existing uneven wall (all the way around), thus, leveling and smoothing everything out for a super clean look.



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Update

Continued work on the interior with new heater control knobs I sourced to match the interior. Had to relocate the entire assembly, but it all worked out well.





Then moved onto fabricating the mock template for the shifter panel - these cars' shifter is on the mid dash. Then curved it down into the center and wrapped it. The fitment is not perfect. That will get taken care of by my interior guy who will re-fabricate everything. This is just to show him the layout I'm after. More subtle switches and trim panels to come around shifter and heater controls.



Cell phone in place to show location of ITouch.



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Replys

Paint imperfections at 2:07 & 2:09 too bro, better get onto that! LOLtards

Yeah, it's statements like this that never seam to amaze me. Why the hell would you paint a car to a show quality finish, before testing the hell outta the car first?? Makes zero sense to me. I didn't even have my painter spray any clear, buff or correct it. It came straight out of the booth after the second coat. Last time I checked, paint finish has nothing to do with sorting a car out.

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Morons. They really should do some more research before stating the obvious.

Exactly. Too many people are too quick to type anything without any thought as to possibly why the owner chose a specific path. It's called being lazy. And it's an epidemic.

Hill climb? Seriously???

Hummmm...a car that has gone through an EXTENSIVE 4 year surgery on basically every panel, didn't get fully painted prior to testing? Why, how strange...

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Sick Spider Man, Alot of work but when your done its gunna be Amazing !

Thanks ChristopherJason! More to come!

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i like the one comment that you got from SR20Tomei...


"this car will prolly sucks at circuit race track or hill climb, all the looks and stuffs are for looks only.....Prolly owned by a 50yrs old for mall shoppings."


Pretty funny to me, keep up the good work man.

Thanks Jersh! Yeah, that one made me laugh. I was like, "What???" That guy can't be serious. Sad thing, I think he is!!

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Kinda late to the party! But I marathon'd this whole thread lil by lil since this morning

Where are you located? I can only hope not too far from north east US. Id love to see this in person one day. Black just doesn't photograph well

Thanks ShadowWabbit! Yeah, black does not shoot well. But as I've stated, black is for street testing mode. Kinda like how they black clad up concept cars for the same to hide lines from the press

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[ShadowWabbit]

Kinda late to the party! But I marathon'd this whole thread lil by lil since this morning

Where are you located? I can only hope not too far from north east US. Id love to see this in person one day. Black just doesn't photograph well

[Jersh]

i like the one comment that you got from SR20Tomei...


"this car will prolly sucks at circuit race track or hill climb, all the looks and stuffs are for looks only.....Prolly owned by a 50yrs old for mall shoppings."


Pretty funny to me, keep up the good work man.

[ChristopherJason]

Sick Spider Man, Alot of work but when your done its gunna be Amazing !

[Noi5eB0mb]

Morons. They really should do some more research before stating the obvious.

[Anonymoose]

Paint imperfections at 2:07 & 2:09 too bro, better get onto that! LOLtards

[street]

Spider On Blast!

One of my Bros just emailed me this. Made me laugh, 'cause the car is not even done!!

As usual, some guy thinks he knows the car better than me.

http://autoholics.com/2011/06/24/Wicked-Slammed-Alfa-Spider-545116

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Replys.

wow! again it just keeps getting better!

Thanks Joshbm! I'm always looking to improve or anything.

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I love that last design, amazing work..

Thanks LaMar! I feel it works a lot better. As with anything from scratch, it's a process.

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I'm still seriously amazed at the amount of work you put into this beast!

I love everything, except perhaps the steering wheel... Let's get a Momo in there just for the Made in Italy appeal! Just a thought, use it don't use it.

Thanks dubtruk36! As you probably already know, I bought my 3.7 from your neck of the woods - from Dawie DeVilliers at Glenwood Motors in Pretoria!

Yeah, lots of mods. More than I can count, really!! But they all have a purpose and follow functional with form. That was the challenging part.

Wheel was bought a few years ago and I see your point. Maybe I'll keep my eye out for anything that suits the styling.

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[quote=haugli;504384]This car reminds me of the Eagle Speedster I saw on Top Gear. In other words, your car looks and sounds better than a half a million quid.

Thanks haugli! Interesting comparison. Not too worry, you'll hear the engine soon during the testing stages!!

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thats much better!!! and i was talking about real carbon fiber wrap over your pieces then resing over it. but its looking goood!!!

Thanks mateo m3! Glad you were referring to real carbon. Yeah, I'm gonna get into that for some of the aluminum work.

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[mateo m3]

thats much better!!! and i was talking about real carbon fiber wrap over your pieces then resing over it. but its looking goood!!!

[haugli]

This car reminds me of the Eagle Speedster I saw on Top Gear. In other words, your car looks and sounds better than a half a million quid.

[dubtruk36]

I'm still seriously amazed at the amount of work you put into this beast!

I love everything, except perhaps the steering wheel... Let's get a Momo in there just for the Made in Italy appeal! Just a thought, use it don't use it.