Well I just got a new job at Best Buy working in Car Fi of all places. After wanting to sell my car by the end of the summer the discounts I can get have changed my mind. Essentialy I can get about 2k worth of stuff for about 600 installed in my car. So after finding out that the 300 dollars I paid for the last install was a waste. (they did numerous things wrong and one pair of midbass speakers are blown because of it) I am going to start working on my interior.

As of this moment I have 2 sets of cl-61a's, an infinity refference amp (7540a I think), and a jvc head units. The plane is to get a nice alpine, kenwood, or pioneer deck, 2 10" infinity kappa perfects (I get them cheap), an infinity amp to go with them, and replace my cdt cl-6's that are blown with something else by them. That being said I am going to make custom fibre glass enclosures in the corners of my trunk for the subs. Before I do this though I am sanding my interior and painting it white.

Now, one of the things I would like to try first is to make as much of the center console into one piece as possible. I would remove the ash trays and any extra holes (including the clock), and then join them together with fibre glass? I was wondering if anyone has tried this and was successful? At the moment I haven't had time to rip it out, but I imagine once I get it done it is going to be a royal pita to get it out (probably would need to remove the passenger seat to get it out), but it should look cool. Also I have a feeling I will need to change some of the places it screws into the floor. Anyone have any thoughts on this?

The next thing I am considering is removing the passenger seat and covering it in fibre glass or some other material to mak it flat? I would then mount my amps there for looks (mind you I will be getting a viper car alarm since its dirt cheap due to my discount) and speaking of amps I will sand and paint them white to match. I would probably change the rear speakers so they are angled forward or just might change the rear tirm altogether.

I know this is going to be an ungodly amount of hours, but I figure it will be relatively cheap to do (hours spent compared to the dollar amount) and I have plenty of time. I have yet to work with fibre glass so I will start small by filling in bits here and there and work my way up, but if anyone has any tips or ideas I would like to hear them.

buy a second hand console and do the work to that first as you might not like it once you're hacked yours to bits.

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Well I thought about that, but to be honest if I do like it that just means I have an extra console lying around. I think if it comes out like crap I will simply by a new console to put in since I can live without it in my car for awhile.

It was also more for whilst you are doing it your car isn't in too many pieces, but thats ok if you arent using it I guess.
Thats what I would do anyway, PLUS if you do it well, someone else might want you to do one for them too.

The stuff I do will have to be one of a kind simply because I am moving out of the house (college yeah!) at the end of the summer.

Now that I am thinking about it though does anyone make a thin ebrake? Or at least one where the handle itself can be removed? I ask because I want to get rid of the rubber piece that is on the stock console.

not sure mate, could you use one from a different car? whats an mr2's like are they the same?