QUOTE(Dougster @ May 6 2018, 11:26 AM)
Hey Lucky, you should do yourself a favor and have your upholsterer order up some "Pirelli Webbing" before you go any further. It's a little more expensive but is worth it. It's the stuff they used to used on vintage car seats. My Volvo 1800E needed webbing replaced and instead of buying the original Pirelli material, I bought the cheaper Dunlop (looks like what you are using)... it hasn't help up well at all. I'm going to have to re-do it. The Pirelli is more of an off-white/cream colored rubber looking material, rather than the stretchy Dunlop. I can sort of relate to what you are doing... I bought E30 BMW sport seats off craigslist (because of their high side bolsters) and combined them with the relatively flat original recaros that were in my 1800E. So I had to weld frame pieces together and manipulate foam, add webbing, custom upholster. But now I have original looking seats (with original side brackets/hinges) but with nice firm side bolsters. It was a 'B' to do but worth the effort. Just trying to save you some frustration up the road with the webbing. Great job on everything, btw !!
Dougster
Arriving at the shop at 9:30 this morning, the ship had sailed on the webbing, and it turns out he had the Pirelli webbing there for me to see and compare. I had to agree with Oscar the upholsterer that the webbing installed was more correct, with all due respect to your recommendation. He has done upholstery his entire life and I am going defer to his guidance.
Again, I always appreciate help and comment and thank you.
This is what the seats looked like this morning. Backs fully covered in foam. So cool looking.
Click to view attachmentAnd, he had applied a ¼” layer of foam over the inner sides and top rails over the shaved sculpted foam earlier installed.
Plus, he had created the back foam pieces.
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