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At this point I checked the fit and did a little fine tuning.
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Replace with the "correct" part in the future quite easily
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Further, your "cheaped out" part is something that can be totally reversed or replaced with the "correct" part in the future quite easily.
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With the glue dry, I set about installing it in the car.
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After searching for an inexpensive used GT3 console delete, I decided to just make one.
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Happy enough with the fit, I bought a roll of generic black interior carpet from Walmart, and used some Heavy Duty 3M Spray glue.
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After searching for an inexpensive used GT3 console delete, I decided to just make one. It isn't shaped exactly like the OEM piece, but it does the job and I was happy with how it turned out.
I started out with a removed center console, and I began roughing in the shape of the GT3 console in cardboard. I looked at a few pictures online and then eyeballed it to make the closest representation I could.
I decided to make my console out of sheet metal, so I got a piece of 24 gauge metal from the Home Depot Motorsports aisle, and broke out my trusty shears and rivet gun and went to work.
At this point I checked the fit and did a little fine tuning.
Happy enough with the fit, I bought a roll of generic black interior carpet from Walmart, and used some Heavy Duty 3M Spray glue. I discovered that my wife's hair pins were just the right thickness to hold the carpet against the metal while the tight edges dried.
With the glue dry, I set about installing it in the car. I ended up using some exposed local auto parts store hardware and attaching the console at the top and bottom. Maybe next time I would hide the screws, but they don't bother me too much.
I coupled this with the small plastic cover in front of the shifter that I purchased from ECS Tuning, and for a little more than $18 and a few hours of my time I have a "GT3-styled" Center Console Delete.
Nice! Ill see how some others pull this off and then maybe ill do it as well!
you wouldnt happen to have the measurements or some sort of written plan for this would you?
I didn't keep any measurements. I just held a piece of cardboard up and made it as I went along. I did keep the carpet long on the shifter side, and sort of tucked it into the shifter console to blend it better. With how dark the footwell is, you can't tell any difference in carpet color when driving. I would think that anything you made that was remotely this shape will give you a passable GT3-styled console.
Also, I could only find one other DIY and it was a guy who made it out of cardboard and then covered it in felt. I wanted something slightly more durable.
Good luck, and have fun making one! It really improved legroom!
I gotta admit when I heard gt3, sheet metal, rivets, cardboard, and Home Depot all in a couple sentences, I was expecting something bad but this actually turned out great. Kudos to you!
Oh, there is but it's $190 USD.
http://www.suncoastparts.com/product/gt3console.html
Great job on this delete. I've been sub'd to this thread and will likely copy it as well as remove my shifter console for my track car.
Awesome job uncle_scott!! It turned out great and thank you for the write up. For anyone who just wants to buy the GT3 Center Console outright or looking for the parts
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Looks pretty good if you ask me. And I bet the carpet matches a lot better in person. I've had things in the past with aftermarket carpet that matched perfectly in person, but showed up in photographs as a totally different color.
My climate control was already up top, and the radio was originally an aftermarket Pioneer that was in the center console that I deleted. I had to solder and shrink wrap a new stock wiring harness onto the cut wires from the Pioneer and then they were plenty long to relocate. My iPod hook-up cable from the CDR-220 runs behind the delete I made and comes out next to the driver's side seat.
I am happy enough with the console. I will likely make another one when the weather warms up. I want to build one with a slightly more curvy shape to it like to actual part. I have always enjoyed playing with my cars, and interior projects are always fun because that is the area that you really get to enjoy your car from. As for the "cheaped out on a $160 part"...you are ultimately right. But I look at that as $160 that I can put towards better tires, future coilovers, or any number of other parts and projects I would like to do.
I try not to take things so seriously, these cars have dropped in value, and I recognize it for what it is. A fun daily-driven Porsche that isn't ever going to be a collectors item or a rare gem. Enjoy it while it is here, and then pass it on to the next owner.
Further, your "cheaped out" part is something that can be totally reversed or replaced with the "correct" part in the future quite easily. It's not like you cut the fenders off and bolted some Ebay universal flares to it or something.
Hi, has anyone else ever tried this and can show pictures of their attempt? I can't find a delete kit in dark grey, so am thinking about fabbing up something this year...
Resurrecting the dead! OE part definitely hard to find now even in black! I have a black one inbound from eBay EU after several US sellers refunded due to no inventory. Took me ~6 weeks to get the plastic panel in granite.
