Heres what it looked like before





Heres what it looks like now

 

uhm...is that backwards? or is there some other purpose?

 

dash swap?

 

Nah im just changing the whole interior to black and installing this

 

Its been a major pita i started at the back of the car and worked my way forward pulling everything out and putting it back in. But it will be well worth it in the end everything will be tip top.

 

Heres a couple of othe pictures of my progress.

 

Im still adding black leather seats,new steering wheel im buying the grant elite and black seatbelts.

 

Love those door panels, they have such a clean look compared to mine. Also the grant elite looks awesome in a 3rd Gen. keep us posted.

 

I had the dash out on my '84 T/A last fall. Fixed a lot of rattles and I found some screws that weren't tightened from the factory. 1980's build quality!

Whats that metal box behind the map pocket on the dash? Did your car come with the factory amp and sub-woofers in the quarter panels? Thats a pretty rare option.

 

Yes it has the factory amp but i havent seen any subwoofers. On the dash it has a gain control **** with a button next to it. When i bought the car it already had a aftermarket radio installed and he had disconnected the factory amp.

 

Man my car must have been a blast from the factory. It was ordered with 305 TPI, 5speed,TTops,WS6 package,Performance sound package,no power anything bare bones but with the deluxe interior. Also my car was originally silver not black which i dont see very many silver thirdgen formulas.

 

Are you painting anything such as the arm rests/door panels or replacing them with black ones? I'm curious how long the paint last if it is in fact painted.

 

Siiiiick

 

Are you getting rid of that 5 speed shift plate?

 

I used dye on everything. The 5speed plate is getting sold with the complete console.

 

Ok im finished except for the steering wheel,shifter boot, and i got a set of pedals that i will be adding.
Heres before pics

 

And here are the after pics

 

nice.. hopefully you can get us some non-blurry shots :P

good job

 

I have more pictures here the batteries were running low thats why its blurry some of them are some them arent. http://www.cardomain.com/memberpage/654826/12

 

Heres a couple that are not blurry.

 

Looks great!! You did an excellent job. Definitely looks slick in black!

 

Also took some outside pics when i took the interior pics might as well ***** up my own thread.

 

how exactly do you dye your interior?

Like is there a certain product you used?

 

Wow!!.......that looks great! Is that new carpet? If so, where did you get it from? It is looking awesome!

-Justin S.

 

looks great in its non-blurryness!

 

My T/A also has the factory radio w/subwoofers. The subs are POS "Bostwick's" on a 5" size. The amp and slider only seem to work with the stock head unit. When I put in an aftermarket head unit, using the same wires, the subs would not work.

I want to replace the subs with some new ones, but cant find any on a 5" platform.

Jim.

 

There was another thread about the amp and subs. They said they are actually 5 1/4 inch and not 5. You can find the 5 1/4 inch just about anywhere. Heres the link to the other thread where they were talking about it. https://www.thirdgen.org/techbb2/sho...hreadid=264126

 

did you use the fabric and vinyl dye stuff to dye it? What did you use?

 

I used Dupli Color Vinyl and Fabric Dye on the door panels and,center console door,map pocket and the carpet. Then i used Krylon Fusion for all the plastic pieces in the interior. And i used bottle of wax & grease remover to prep everything. Word of advice dont try to dye the shifter boot it didnt work worth a crap.

 

Those door panels are so much better than the Camaro ones ...

 

are you happy with how the carpet turned out when you dyed it? I've been thinking of changing my carpet to black....

 

The carpet looks good you just have to do several coats and let it dry in between to let it soak in. Also i recommend getting one of the little nail brushes they sale at auto parts stores and using that to brush the carpet while you are dying it. Spray a lil brush a lil. I didnt brush it while i was doing it and it got stiff.

 

That looks Awesome!!

i think i would like a black interior, how is the dye holding up? i'm curious how the rug, vinly and plastic will look after some wear and tear. That looks so much better than my blue interior!

 

Dont know its only been a week still looks good. The way i figured is it was a pita to do the whole interior at once. But if one piece has a problem its an easy fix to do just one thing.

 

alright, no one else has asked, so I guess I might not be paying attention.

Why are all of your panels so rich and glossy. I have used the duplicolor on another car, and it did not come out like that.

I see you used the krylon on the plastic pieces. Did that come out that rich from the paint, or do you have it heavily armor alled, or whatever.

The reason I asked, is that I have just aquired a black interrior parts car, but they are all covered in carpet. I don't know why. I would rather just dye my current panels black, if they would look as good as yours.

on a side note, anyone ever think about sanding the grain off of the panels. I did it on an extra piece I have, and I think it would look cool. Kinda like the fiberglassed look.

 

nice job man im guessing krylon fusion the pannels look just like mine but yours a more glossy.. thats a huge shifter dude

 

Well the 6speed console is about half the height of the 3rd gen console so it made my stock shifter a couple of inches longer. I plan to get a short throw shifter and one of the short sticks and then cut it down a little bit. Then it will be perfect.

 

If you used the Duplicolor on the carpet, it will wear back to it's original color within a few months. Mine looks like butt right now. I'll be switching to new black carpet this spring when I take everything back out to paint her...

 

I had the exact same problem and am solving it the exact same way. New black carpet is on its way. That Duplicolor stuff seems to work great on everything else, though.

 

The carpet is only temporary i planed on buying new carpet this summer. Plus in the next couple of months i will porbably not even drive 500 miles in it. Its just my weekend car and it stays in the garage. I could see it becoming a problem in a daily driver.

 

Gawd thats a purdy Formula

I'm going to do my Camaro the exact same way. Shiny black and chrome inside and out.

 

so what door panels are those? Are those stock formula?

 

f355: Do you have power locks or manual locks? I noticed you have manual windows with the GTA-style doorpanels, which is what I'm doing as well. I also have manual locks, but I haven't seen block-off plates for the power lock switches (or door trim without the holes for the lock switches).

 

Yes they are the deluxe package it was a option for formula's and GTA's. My car has manual locks and windows.

 

Hey firebird 383 did u buy those off of ebay recently?

 

Can you snap a pic of your door trim for me? Is there just a blank piece of plastic that snaps-in where the power lock buttons would be?


Yes I did- from thirdgenranch (LFN AT U on the boards). They have little pockets at the bottom but I'm going to have to remove them because they'll interfere with the window crank. (They were off a power-window car and I'm going to have to cut the holes for the cranks)

 

Here is 2 upclose pics of the covers on the door handle and this is the same both sides
At the front hole is just smooth



The back hole has the bird symbol

 

The first time those panels came up on ebay i posted a bid and they went up to like $250 dollars and some one didnt pay so he relisted them and by that time i had already redid my panels so i didnt bother. Those panels looked really good in the picture he had.

 

Thanks for the pics- that's exactly what I wanted to know.

Actually, he had 2 sets of black GTA panels. I was watching that first auction where they went to $250 too. Those panels didn't have the map pockets and were actually missing the little plastic covers for the screw holes. Mine were auctioned off the next week. They were mint, included all the screw covers (and the brackets to convert from regular door panels) and for some reason only went to $103.

 

That turned out nice. You do need a short shifter tho that thing looks like it belongs on a s10.