Console repair - WORLD'S first Big Dave's

[dave6666]

Yeah, I may have gotten Vin # 000000000000002 of Big Dave's Gen2 Center Console fix, but the first one went to New York. I'm in Texas, got mine, and I bet Vin # 0000000000000001 is still in a truck.

Nonetheless, I put mine in tonight and had to do some slight mods. Way awesome product that saved me oodles of hours fabbing, but I thought I would share the 15 minutes I spent tweaking...

The red arrows in pic 1 show where I trimmed because it was binding up where the red arrows are in pic 2.

Also in pic 1, where the green arrows are, I whacked a tad off there after the pic was taken.

Used a hack saw blade and then buffed it with a finishing disk to make it purdy.

In the second pic, the Race Yellow arrows show where I trimmed down the body seam putty a little to as it seemed to be riding a little high there.

Very simple install. GREAT product.

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[sdaddy]

Somewhere down the line some future owner is going to take the center console off and say "what the ****?".

 

[mike & juli]

Dave--it is great that you can do this work yourself~~AND advise others on how you did it....AND with pics...AND with arrows...AND with COLORED arrows...very impressive indeed! You are what has been needed on these forums--I TOLD you that~!!! ~juli
(We have a Viper Wizard...you can be Viper-Devil-Dave!!)

 

[2001 GTS]

Is this going to be available?

edit...nvm....here is the link

Interior

 

[Matt M PA]

What is that part made of? Looks like a great idea.

 

[dave6666]

Somewhere down the line some future owner is going to take the center console off and say "what the ****?".

No, actually, they'll receive an Excel spreadsheet detailing everything I've done to the car, A folder containing receipts for everything, and a CD photo album of every thing I've done.

Got that for your ride?

 

[dave6666]

What is that part made of? Looks like a great idea.

It appears to be a urethane of sorts. Rubbery so it does have some give. Steel inserts where it screws to the underside of the console.

If you build your own you'll earn it at $4.99 per hour. My time is worth more than that and I bought the $100.00 time saver from Big D.

 

[02 Graphite GTS]

Hey Dave6666,

Great post and pictures !

It took us a whole lot of hours just making the mold. It appears that I will have to make a modification to the mold to "trim it back" a bit. Oddly enough, I did not have to trim or modify anything to make it fit in my car..... goes to show you that the cars are made one at a time and there are some differences.

I will trim back the pieces that we have already made. I'll pick up the mold tomorrow and get it modified so that it eliminates the need to trim more off.

Lance

 

[Matt M PA]

dave6666....I would certainly order one, it's not worth trying to build my own. I just wondered what it was made of.

 

[02 Graphite GTS]

dave6666....I would certainly order one, it's not worth trying to build my own. I just wondered what it was made of.

It is made out of Polyurethane. It also has a thin piece of masonite embedded in it to give it support over the emergency brake gap.