Custom Car Interior

[Crimson]

Ive been looking at cars and I just started biding on a white gst 97 on ebay and I am in love except for one problem. Although in good condition, the tan interior and scooby doo steering wheel cover are hideous. I can fix the cover but I would like to have the interior redone to maybe a theme. Maybe a black and blue theme. I have seen blue dashboard covers and blue shifter things, but I want to do the seats, doors, everything. Anyone got info on how to go about this, pricing, who does it, etc?

[DSM-Owner]

my dash was just recently re-done by a bedliner spray. It looks badass and will never scratch or fade or any of that. Then i purchased a dash kit off ebay for like 15 bucks.....

[ashah000]

Originally Posted by DSM-Owner

Then i purchased a dash kit off ebay for like 15 bucks.....

What kind of dash kit was it?? The ones i could find were around 100

[Crimson]

Sounds good, what do you look for on Ebay, just dash kit? Im talking everything though, upholstery and all. I asked my friend today and he said theres some girl that does it all for around 700$ and its good quality but im still wondering what the going rate is.

[DSM-Owner]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...tem=2443982874
something like that

[Crimson]

ooo, thats nice, are those pieces hard to put in? Ive never tried but I dont think it would be too difficult. Except maybe the door panel ones.

[ashah000]

dsm owner, are these pieces made of good quailty, will they last a while, and do they stayed sticked on or do they fall off sometimes.

[duckydsp]

You could change the look of your dash for under $10. You just need spray paint of your colors, clearcoat, sandpaper, and lots of time. I will give you more info if you want. Or if you have money you can design you own fiberglass dashboard which would look HOT!

Seats could cost you at least $500.

Shift knobs about $40 and shift boots around $20

Carpets-$20 or if you get diamond plated metal-$120

[Crimson]

I would love to design my own fiberglass dash, how do you do that? Also I will probably go with diamon plated metal and just get a shift boot to match the theme I go with.

[lowlife4life]

read up on fiberglassing its alot easier than people make it out to be, and not very expensive. the only reason people charge so much to make custom parts becuase it takes some time, and lots of sanding.

go to termpro.com and go to the fabrication forum in the forums section.
theres a post made by Mpipes called "fiberglass anyone"
read that! its alot of pages but you'll know everything you need to know.

then you could practice on some things, and fiberglass your dash, door panels or whatever!
ive done a couple dashes and door panels for crx's and they turned out very nice.

[DSM-Owner]

Originally Posted by ashah000

dsm owner, are these pieces made of good quailty, will they last a while, and do they stayed sticked on or do they fall off sometimes.

yes, they are good quality. Havent had a problem with em yet, I'll try to get some pics up soon....

[EclipseGSbebe]

hey....i'm wanting sum custom interior too..but NO ONE does PINK! and that's what i want! if u have N*e body in mind....shout back at me..i'm desperate!

[Crimson]

Pink would look super awesome, apparently people do it for a living and im probably going to get the dash and the the seats done with a blue theme, then do blue neons under dash and under the car, its a black car that im getting so its gonna look super cool. Too bad blue neons are illegal in FL but I dont care, ill just try and flip em off if I see a cop.

[EclipseGSbebe]

yeh i know....my car is black too...that's why it's gonna look so tight when i get done w* it. Pink neon fader underbody's. license plate pink neon, maybe powder coat some of the engine pink, black rims, black projectors and altezza euros for the back, greddy exhaust. chinese symbol on hatch back that meanz princezz...have that in pink. and my license plate say Princez! LOTS more!

[EclipseRST]

Originally Posted by lowlife4life

read up on fiberglassing its alot easier than people make it out to be, and not very expensive. the only reason people charge so much to make custom parts becuase it takes some time, and lots of sanding.

go to termpro.com and go to the fabrication forum in the forums section.
theres a post made by Mpipes called "fiberglass anyone"
read that! its alot of pages but you'll know everything you need to know.

then you could practice on some things, and fiberglass your dash, door panels or whatever!
ive done a couple dashes and door panels for crx's and they turned out very nice.

yes fiberglassing is easy but the hard part is making the outline...i have worked with fiberglass for a couple years now on custom installations and other stuff for a audio dealership here in my town...its fun and cool but there is a lot of work involved... here is a website that i found that kinda resembles what i am doing to my car right now, sorta that same type of thing but different stuff in different places, i have been working on this for probably 2 months and all i have done is the 2 rear side panels and where the back seat use to be, but it still needs to be painted, so you can see it takes a while, but it looks tight as hell when you get done!!! http://www.cardomain.com/memberpage/182868/1

there are several things that you can do such as use the old dash panel and build it up from that but i think the way i am goin to do it is just take the dash off and build a template out of wood to make mine, so then its the way i want it and its one of a kind... which is better for show cause judges like it when your different! good luck!