Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Interior refurbishment incl. seat belts and redye of panels

More recently, I have done much research to changing the color of an interior and started to redye my panels. Some of them have sun rot and have to be replaced including the kick panels in the front, the sail panels, and the rear armrest quarter panels. I have already taken off most of them and painted them. I plan on ordering an interior kit from firebird central and getting it installed this year. I will do as much as I can, but will definitely have someone help. I plan on going to Furner's in Chico for help with the seat upholstery and maybe the carpet as well. I replaced the seat belts, but those darn ratchets are not in the best of shape. The passenger one works fine, but the drivers one I wrapped electrical tape around it pulled out so it won't retract haha I've used SEM 15463 Gloss Cabernet to paint everything and it's all turned out really well. I sprayed a darker blue piece that I got for under the steering column and it turned out darker than my faded light blue pieces and I have some black pieces as well.

For the black ones, I did a base coat in white spray paint (not fully coated, more just a dusting) but I'm worried that the unevenness of the base coat will affect the final look. For the armrest rear quarter panels I will try to do a more even base coat. But I think overall it will look pretty good. I plan on taking the center tunnel out to spray it, after I get the interior kit, since it has to come out anyways. I also might tape off all the instrument clusters and the radio and attempt to paint the dash without taking it out because it would certainly look weird if everything was red except the dash.






Also, I scrubbed years of brake dust off the rims and got a chrome spray paint for them (above). Ended up being more of a sparkly silver. I will one day get them blasted and powdered hopefully. I am missing one of the big silver rings that goes around the rim.

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