How about a 1997 Porsche 993 interior?

Out comes the 2 tone brown/tan interior. 

In goes the '97 993 interior.

I purchased a complete interior from a 1997 993 including gauges.

Transforming the interior was a long & very expensive ordeal.

It started by cracking the windshield when I was attempting to remove it and went down hill from there.

I had to cut the corners of the existing dash away since the new dash has the larger corner vents.

I then had to source and cut off the larger corners off of the donor 993, drill out all of the spot welds, separate the layers, align up on the 911SC, and weld into place.  There lots of vice grips were used to do many mockup trail fittings.

The center vent in the late 993 dash as well as the dash itself, is a straight bolt up affair.

The door panes required cutting off the boss for the interior rotary lock knob, leaving the rest of the mechanism in tact.  The doors are locked and unlocked with either the key or a larger pull knob in the stock location.  In addition, the door panels required custom brackets to be fabricated to bolt the new 993 style door pulls to.

The upper door pad us a 911SC piece, recovered in black.  The 993 piece is not a straight bolt on piece, plus the 993 uses a different mirror control, which is not compatible with the SC mirror wiring.

The lower dash bolts straight up, but the ash tray must be cut out of the existing lower dash. This is not an issue since the new lower dash has an ash tray built in.

The rear deck lid and rear quarter panels bolt straight in.

The rear seats use a push-pin mechanism to hold the seat up as well as to release it, where the stock 911SC uses a simple snap release.  In order to use the push-pin setup, a bracket had to be fabricated and located between the rear upper seat halves.

Up top, a new 993 style, non-perforated head liner was installed.  Glad I had professionals come out and install it.

Lastly, I installed a full set of 993 gauges.  In order to do this, the fuel gauge must be sent in to North Hollywood Speedometer for modification.  It will not work otherwise. Cost is about $150.   While I was there, I had the odometer transferred from the original speedometer, and had custom glass fitted to the speedometer because for some strange reason, Porsche uses plastic instead of glass on the speedometers (not on the other gauges), and the plastic gauge face had minor, but annoying scratches  (typical of plastic gauge faces).

Whew....   I'll never do that conversion again.    

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