project custom leather sparco covers

[J__]

so i got a good source to get custom leather seat covers made. decided to rip off an old sparco sprint cover and send it to them to use as a template for some nice leather ones since the used sparcos i bought was in pretty bad condition and i wanted leather ones anyway =P. we'll they've been sitting in my living room for a month now and its time to put them on

 

tools:

new leather seat cover pulled over the seat frame (sorry didnt take a picture of the frame, and too lazy to take off the cover once i did have it on):

old seat cover:

hole punching the bottom with a paper hole punching (try punching through 2 layers of leather 40 times.... i can barely move my fingers now):

clamping on a metal welting so the leather wont rip:

zap strapping the cover to the frame to pull it tight:

finished the strapping:

cutting the holes for the seat belt hole:

final product:

x2:

[alexideways]

Verry nice, how mutch did it cost???

[Guest Mike]

Nice!! They look comfy too.

[J__]

total cost was $70 cad. for both covers lol. but thats cuz i got them made in china. gave my dad the old sparco covers that i ripped off one of the seat (drove around for 4 months on the frame and foam...) then he went to an automotive seat upholster in china. bargained them down to $70 to make a pair of leather ones. brought it back and installed myself.

 

otherwise from the upholsters here, it would be $700cad for custom leather ones made from scratch like these.....