If you didn't see the last update, visit here:
https://www.thirdgen.org/forums/auto...kyll-hyde.html

My friends helped me out with most of this, so most questions can be sent to him, search for the user 'black is best'.

Update as of 07-31-2007:
I had the exterior re-cleared and the black re-shot to fix some minor blemishes. I also had the antenna shaved off, it reminded me of a remote control car everytime I looked at it.

'black is best' also did the red taillight modification for me and also refinished the exterior.

We started working on the interior lacing the entire thing with dynamat extreme. We also dyed the interior plastics with landau black matching the stock GM colors from the late 80s and re-carpeted the panels with new black carpet. We put in new black floor carpet, and jute padding. I had the 1997 seats recovered in a new type of synthetic vinyl, most people can't tell a difference, and had orange top stitching added to the seats. I also purchased new door panels and had the same company add orange top stitching to those.

Along with the interior, I had new exhaust put on, the windows re-tinted, and painted and cleaned up the engine bay.

Enough talking, time for pics:

 

 

LOOKIN AWESOME! love the black interior man. GREAT JOB keep it up. I still have thought about using your 2 tone and changing the colors but instead im planning on red w/ black stripes. Well keep us updated. -Matt

 

I almost forgot here is the new exterior after the clear, black, and antenna changes.


And the Reader's Ride Section of Camaro Performers


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Cool deal man. I haven't talked to you in awhile. Make sure you keep us updated with your changes as well!!

 

Looks really good! That Dynamat really makes a difference and is worth all the extra weight, Or at least I thought so. Love the way it looks, but can't get past the hood pins... not my cup of tea! Keep up the good work and keep posting pics.

 

Those seats look great!! Just curious, are you planning on keeping the t-tops in the back like that? I just tried them back there exactly like that last week and went for a quick ten minute drive and they didn't rattle or anything. It seems way more convenient, but I might make something to separate them a little bit and keep them in place. They fit in there really good though.

Edit: Just saw the wiring back there in the one pic, guess you have different plans for back there.

 

Awsome!! That just gave me alot of modivation to finish my interior. Thanks

 

I knew I knew that car from somewhere, lol!

Great car man, good work!

 

i was dissapointed that they didnt get larger or more pics of your car in Camaro Performers. still a nice deal tho

 

when i saw your car in the magazine i started to get excited and told my girlfriend look look look this guy is on the website im always talking on. but they should have hade more pics. nice ride

 

looks sick i love the two-tone

 

Thanks for the replies. I've always liked looking at other third gens on this board, I'm just happy I finally got to post up some pics of my own.

 

My sister said that she seen a camaro similar to yours in louisville KY today, just the 2 tone black stopped at the hood not on the bumper. She said it was orange and black just like yours. I love the 2 tone but im not sure about what i want to do. either your 2 tone in either yellow/black, red/black, or orange/black. or orange w/ black stripes, or red w/ black stripes. lol im not sure but i just dont want to copy yours exsactly because i dont want to steal your thunder lol. let me kno what u think about the paint for my Z28. later dude. -Matt

 

Strange. I've heard there is a silver & black one near my house, but I haven't seen it personally. I'm not a huge fan of stripes simply because they are on everything, but now I'm starting to see this two-tone on a lot of stock cars like the HHR, PT Cruisers, etc. The problem is these bodies don't have a lot of things that look good on them.

If you want a two tone that's different, I would suggest Nasier's car. I've meet this guy a couple of times, he has won many races with this car, he is part of the 'King of the Hill' racing league in Texas.
http://www.nttga.net/forums/showthre...16304&p=117619

I met him through a friend that used to race KOTH. This one is very nice, the orange is close to the same, but doesn't change as much as mine does. Nice the design that he used for the separator, it's not just a line like mine.

 

how mush did it cost you to have those door panels made? Also did all your rear plastic fit and look that nice before you did all this? If not where/how did you get it to look that nice? Thanks for the insight. Great looking car!

 

i like the drag car, but i think its the simplicity of yours that makes it look so great. im in debate though. I think the 2 tone looks wicked and only question i have for you is what you think about your design with yellow or the stock dark red metallic instead of the orange. My Z28 is almost back on the road and i really want to start on body to get it ready. I plan on a 2 inch cowl hood and the hawks 5 inch spoiler as my mods. But let me kno what u think. later man. -Matt

 

The door panels are new ones from Classic Industries, I just had the stitching replaced with the orange to match the seats. I don't remember exactly how much the stitching cost, but I think it was $50 or so.

Actually, the rear plastics didn't fit great, but they weren't too warped. They look 10 times better than they originally did. I can say that with the new jute padding and the dynamat, it was much tighter against the carpet than stock which really helped making it all fit together better.

No problem man, anytime.

Thanks for the kind words.
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You would have to find a dark red that would look good with black, but something like blood red ( when you first ***** your finger ). For that you would need to get a really bright separator line, something like yellow. Also, I would run the separator line up the 5" spoiler and across the top like mine. I would look really good like that.

 

hmmm dont kno but im gonna have to think about it lol thanks man -Matt

 

love the interior, great job

 

DUDE looks GREAT! love the way the seats and the door panels came out... idk if i could deal with no armrests though? you must have to cut out the holes or something b/c what are you going to do with the door locks and all that stuff? the outside is so nice looking, you need to get some diamond cut headlights to match the parking lights though, and how hard was it painting the engine bay? i need to do it to mine sooo bad but im worried its going to be a BIG job...

 

Actually, the cardboard in the back of the door panels are break outs and then you cut to fit the vinyl. It was really easy to deal with trimming the vinyl. The door panels are back in the car and they look stock but with a little more flare to them. I'll try to get some later interior pics up.

I've actually been looking for the diamond cut headlights, we ordered some in, but there was no bulb cover in the package. I contacted the company that I bought them from and PIAA and both said that that package doesn't come with the blub covers. So I'm looking for some that do.

The engine bay wasn't hard to paint, it took two days in all and came out really good. The major part was the time to move everything out of the way. If you contact 'Black is Best' he can give you some good tips to do it. I helped him paint it basically. He shot it and I moved the stuff or held it out of the way, while he shot it.

 

looks great man

 

getting better all the time

 

Hey man, I went ahead and photoshopped (btw a crappy job) the dark red color on your car to see what it would look like. I like it alot. What do you think? I think this is an awesome look for my Z28. If you dont mind me borrowing your design. let me kno -Matt

 

I like that alot. You would need to do the red taillight mod to hide the rest of the car, not sure what to about the emblems, but the black/red stock emblems would go nicely. The other thing to think about is the sidemarker lights, either get rid of them or keep them.

Also, I would have to suggest something a little more updated for the rims than the TT IIs, something a little more racecar oriented. Maybe something like the ROH ZHs or the tuners from boyd coddington. I'll see if I can come up with some good rims for you. The rims can really make or break a car, so make sure you know exactly the look your are going for before purchasing any rims.


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Thanks to both of you. I'm really trying hard with this one, so I really hope that the majority likes this car. I love the third gen body lines and I'm tired of seeing them in junkyards or driven around looking like junk. The third gen f-bodies need to get some more respect.

 

looks awesome man..

 

Thanks man, basically im thinkin a deep red that has a lil color change in the light. Not sure about rims yet either but i was thinkin kinda like the cragar drag stars or somthing like that. I love the classic/sport style. Or weld pro stars.
http://www.performanceplustire.com/i...ucts2/2357.jpg

Its gonna take some time but I really want to get it done right. I dont kno how to do the tail light mod and i dont kno how hard it will be. I hope its not hard to tape off the 2 tone and i am thinkin silver stripe dividing the color so it would tie in the clear side markers. (really wanna keep'em) But mainly i just wanted to make sure you didn't care if i used your paint scheme. thanks for the info/comment man. let me kno about the rims. later dude. -Matt

 

Looks really good!So good, in fact......Consider your thunder stolen! Somehow I doubt we'll run into each other at Wal-Mart, though.Wanna swap interiors?

 

Looks good man!!

 

your iroc looks amazing J&H.

 

Thanks Man!! It's still a work in progress, but it's getting there.

 

I went with the same paint sceme. Looks Bad A$$, but I think I wanna repaint it with black on top and gun metal grey on the bottom. http://memimage.cardomain.net/member...454_1_full.jpg

 

I looked at pro stars before I got the Torque Thrust IIs, I couldn't find any of them in a 17" and 9.5" wide. I really like those rims though.

 

What a difference with the interior! wow

 

One more update...

My car is a featured car in the January 08 issue of 'Camaro Performers'. I will try to post up the article when I can get it scanned in.

 

Saw the article in Camaro Peformers and immediately recognized the car from thirdgen.org. Good job man! The paint really sets is off, and I love the new seats, too.

 

gorgeous seats...

 

Absolutely gorgeous car, Love everything about it. great work!

 

CONGRATULATIONS!!! ON THE ARTICLE-CAR LOOKS BADASS IN THE MAG!! I love the black interior-very good job!!!! Keep her beautiful!!!

 

what color pin stripe divides your 2 tone? is it a sticker? later man -Matt

 

That things bada$$

 

where did you get your seats...did you have them covered...may I ask how much..thanks
-R

 

you guys just dont know, imagine this thing in person, Ive seen it a couple times at our club meets and it is very nice

 

Awesome car! I was just going to mention that I was pleasantly surprised to see your sweet ride in Camaro Performer's magazine, i was flippin thru the pages and definitely knew I'd seen that 2 toned beast somewhere

 

Absolutely one of the best looking cars I've seen on here! Was the engine bay rattlecanned?

 

The pin stripe is a 'raider blue' from GM. It's basically that purplish color blue that you see on the Cobalt now days. The painter chose it after looking at different colors of red and blue.

Thanks man!

I had them done locally to D/FW. The company is named 'High Tech Vinyl', the do all kinds of custom work. The seats cost me $950 to have them repaired ( the foam ) and recovered with the orange top stitching. The are so nice and comfortable.

Haha, thanks Kyle, yours is awesome too! Don't just give other people props!!

Thanks man. I've been lax on telling everyone about the magazine, but I'm happy about it. Would like to get it into another one. We just had the rear rebuilt and a 6-speed swap done. I broke the rear and the transmission on the same launch.

Thanks, I can't say that enough. Yes, a friend of mine did it, he used that ceramic coat 500* engine enamel that you can get from AutoZone, Pep Boys, or even walmart. We moved all the wiring and covered the engine and in plastic. I held it back while he shot it. Man what a difference that made!

 

hey man hows the car going? I havn't showed the new addition to you. I sold the yellow camaro because it was wrecked and i bought my dream car. 1986 Iroc-Z (Check Sig) Im thinkin on what to do to it. I know the hawks 5 inch spoiler and im thinkin the same cowl you have. But color im not sure if i want to keep it red or go blue. check out the car domain for a lil more. later man -Matt

 

CHECK IT OUT MA! im gonna mock my iroc like urs!!! what you think man -Matt