interior rennovation

ok well i havnt been on here in a while because i have been busy. i have ripped everylast thing out of my cars interior so now the only thin inside is the steering wheel. i bought some fatmat to almost soundproof my car (still waitning on it) and i got new black carpet and painted alll my grey panels black with the fusion for plastics spray paint and then i clear coated everything. so far it all looks good but im waiting for the fat mat before i put everything in the car. so i had some rust inside and i fixed and patched all the holes and stuff. also i took all my ac ducting and stuff out since i didnt have ac anyways. and i got diamond plate stuff to cover the vent holes and around my cd player and the center console. ok wwell heres some pics of my car. (i put a lawn chair in it and drove to the hardware store to buy more paint, i walked out and there was some lady and her 3 kids looking inmy car, she goes, we were just admiring your lawn chair, and i was like thanks, i like it too.
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this is the diamond plate center console, pretty sweet
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i fixed 2 blown holes on that back panel with some jb weld, turned out good
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from the back you can see the jb weld
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i need to load more pic cause now its all empty and like half the floor is black. will update with pics soon

oh and if anyone has any tips or suggestions let me know

make sure you paint the plastic on the door panels to match too.

Are you going to hit the dash too?

your car used to be a stick? did you chang it? and if so why?

At least there is more leg room now.

That lawn chair is the ultimate lightening seat technique..

nice shifter, nice seats, and i think i have that exact same lawn chair 'cept i use it to watch tv with.

lol, well originally it was an auto, then i t was converted to manual, then back to auto, then i bought it. and im gonna recover the door panels i think, cause im going broke fast. but i just applied for a job at a hotel so well see. and i think i will cover the dash pad with the same fuzzy black fabric i am gonna use on the door panels, headliner, and rear speaker covers. we did that in my bros old el camino and in my camaro and everyone liked it. so yeah pimpin it up soon

You gonna get rid of that rust in the floorboards??

i got a con rod you would like, its made by manley, its a foged aluminum and fulley polished, we gots lots from the motor from the funny car, if you wat i can probaly get you one

whats a con rod?

sweet man! looks nice. hope everything comes together nicely.

it would look clean to take out the center light, and have no light on the headliner, but embed led's or some kind of tube light behind all the plastic trim on the roof somehow, so the light woudl look like its coming from out of the plastic.

or not!

con rod = connecting rod:slap: please tell me you were joking

yeah that would be sic bab. then i wouldnt have a gnarly looking connecting rod shifter. let me know if you can get me one

actually i wasn't sure what con rod meant either. i remember seeing pics of those connecting rods too, those were effing huge.

con rod = connecting rod:slap: please tell me you were joking

I thought it had something to do with the interior.

well my shifter is a connecting rod, oh and i used some rust eating stuff for the floor boards, theni painted it all with rustoleum to protect them then i patched all the holes

greyrealsteam, I actually I was planning on doing that same thing, removing the headliner lights and putting white leds or white neon lights in (and block them off a little bit so it wouldn't be too harsh).

88camaroproject, I'm going to be doing the exact same thing to my car... i just didn't know whether I could get the panels in black from yearone or GM or if I would have to paint them. i'm sure I'll end up painting them with the same paint... because of price. Anyway, how did you get the sun screen out? you know the part right behind the rear seats?

I see new front seat but what are you going to do with your rear seats?

Also you should probably sand and paint the floor mounts for the front seats... looks like rust there.

Also, it's not going to bother you have seats that don't recline? It's gonna be a pain getting somebody into the back seat.

well i didnt get new front seats. when i bought the car those were already in there. i just pulled them out and took the covers off so they are bare plastic while i paint in the garage. plus i bought new back seats that are black over on thirdgen.ord. and i dont have one of those sunscreen things in my car. your talking about the roll out screen to cover the tunk area right? and those pics are a little old. everything that loks like rust was sanded, then i put ospho rust eating stuff on it then painted it with rustoleum paint. i will put some new pics up tomorrow. and yeah, its annoying when the seats dont recline, but im not buying new ones so its all good. i just slide the front seats up and people fit in.

alright heres some updated pics..... http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c397/400CI87firebird/Firebird/100_0658.jpg
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It looks like you have no front window, but damn thats alot of wires.

Is that a "for rent" sign where your blower should be? Anyways i commend you on taking that all apart. It would take about a month to get it all back together right.

it looks like a keep out sign

yeah its a keep out sign, the other side i sanded and painted gloss black to cover that hole. and another hole for ac. but yuo cant see the other one . ace hardware only had signs and small peices of metal so i bought one sign and covered all the holes. looks good. and it actually only took like 6 hours to take everything out. then the rest was painting and cleaning and now i have just been waiting on the sound deadener.... hope it comes tomorrow

How much does that sound deadener cost?

Just a quick question.. why are you getting sound deadener? Wouldnt it be better to keep it light or are you going to put a badass sound system in later?

I just took the seats out(back seats also) this weekend because the t-tops leaked and there was a lot of water in those seats(drying inside now). I decided to replace the carpet, I'd love to buy new seats but I can't umm acknowledge that expense right now.

What everyone's opinion on putting the late model interior, 98-02 dash and console in? Convenient? or Rice. Any Neutrals lol?

Why would you want to do that? Im just asking but, im sure it would be a bitch to get it all in.. and have the gauges read correctly. Im neutral on this, btw.

Im sure people here have seen a 3rd gen that did that.. it had 4th gen interior inside of it, like all of it was 4th gen, and if I remember correctly the dash or the door panels didnt close correctly because of something, I cant remember, but it looked good.

i got 100 square feet of fatmat from ebay for 130 shipped. and the sound deadener is for road noise, exhaust, wind noise, just averything, and it stops rattles and stuff. and plus it will seal my car better cause it covers all the little holes and stuff. and i might get just like one 12 or a 10 just to make everything sound better. i dont want rediculous bass. cause i dont listen to much rap. plus i could barely hear my music with all thge engine noise and stuff.