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Old Oct 27, 2010 | 12:00 PM
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Re: Best Appearance Mods

Also keep in mind that today, almost 20 years after the last Thirdgen rolled off the line, a nice clean stock (or almost stock) interior is pretty original looking. Don't get me wrong, I love custom, but I always shake my head at the guys who spend hours and hours on hand making custom parts, only to have ratty lookin' seats, or ragged out carpet. A lot of the go-fast guys just want to mod the engine and go fast, and don't care about appearance. That's fine. They know what they wanna do. But if you're gonna mod the interior, no reason to have old worn out seats and upholstery.
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Old Oct 27, 2010 | 02:47 PM
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Re: Best Appearance Mods

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Also keep in mind that today, almost 20 years after the last Thirdgen rolled off the line, a nice clean stock (or almost stock) interior is pretty original looking. Don't get me wrong, I love custom, but I always shake my head at the guys who spend hours and hours on hand making custom parts, only to have ratty lookin' seats, or ragged out carpet. A lot of the go-fast guys just want to mod the engine and go fast, and don't care about appearance. That's fine. They know what they wanna do. But if you're gonna mod the interior, no reason to have old worn out seats and upholstery.
I agree. After seeing numerous mods on the guage cluster, I still think adding bezels to the stock guages (on the Firebird/Trans Am) is the best looking of them all. It adds something new without altering the entire appearance of the interior, which in my opinion looks quite nice in stock form. Keep in mind I'm referencing my GTA as a starting point. If I had the regular firebird seats I would look into replacing them as well.
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Old Oct 28, 2010 | 03:40 PM
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Re: Best Appearance Mods

My car was very low milage and 100% original so my "mods" were not all that intense but well worth it....

4th gen seats 1000000% better
https://www.thirdgen.org/forums/inte...ff-my-new.html


HUmount looks nice if your going aways from stock radios
https://www.thirdgen.org/forums/car-...-hu-mount.html
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Old Oct 28, 2010 | 04:11 PM
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here is mine I just finished it today..Name:  MattsPics014-3.jpg
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Old Oct 29, 2010 | 12:17 PM
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here is mine I just finished it today..

Are you a door guy???? I like the Colonist there
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Old Oct 29, 2010 | 01:37 PM
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lol...actually thats my make shift work table that was salvaged from when a house on my street was built and the construction workers threw it away.
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Old Oct 30, 2010 | 05:39 PM
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What speakers is your dash pad set-up for?
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Old Oct 30, 2010 | 09:00 PM
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There just a set of 4x6 Boss speakers
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Old Nov 6, 2010 | 01:59 AM
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Should put a grill in there.
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Old Nov 6, 2010 | 12:37 PM
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Re: Best Appearance Mods

Originally Posted by MSRed91Camaro
here is mine I just finished it today..]
Dash looks amazing!

IMO the best interior appearance mods have to be carpet and headliner if their worn out, then seats. Im in the process of fixing up my all grey interior with black carpet, black headliner, and black seats (4th gen) and for under 500$ spend it should look like new again...

I think the interior makes or breaks the car, even if the cars not 100% perfect on the outside a good interior can more than compensate I think, especially for the price
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Old Nov 11, 2010 | 12:13 AM
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Re: Best Appearance Mods

I don't like to mod it at all, I think the stock interior is the best. Definitely hate 4th gen interior, very ugly like my moms 2003 pontiac grand am interior.
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Old Nov 11, 2010 | 10:12 AM
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Re: Best Appearance Mods

Originally Posted by 84 1LE
Perforated leather boot,shifter,e-brk.Waiting on my steering wheel, redid my door panels too.
Hand stitched, not perfect, but good enough!

Ebay cheapies, slightly modified.
dang dude where can i get a set of those halos? been looking for awhile
only i got is the square halos from pilot.
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Old Nov 11, 2010 | 11:29 AM
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Re: Best Appearance Mods

They are made for BMWs(ebay seller- rasco_ind ).Lot of modification to fit.
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Old Nov 11, 2010 | 04:13 PM
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couldnt find the seller..
what model bmw did u look up?
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Old Nov 11, 2010 | 05:01 PM
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i have a few custom mods im working on. there all on hold right now, but the winter time is when i do my left over project. so by next spring these should be 100% finish. first is my center console/ armrest delete

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next is my fuel cell area



next is my daytona hood with molded aero scoop, and blister cutouts with plexiglass inserts





next is my custom molded front chin spoiler





next is my full fiberglass dashpad with no vents anywhere





thats it for now. i also have the hawks fiberglass notchback and auto meter full gauge setup in the cluster.
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Old Nov 11, 2010 | 05:24 PM
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Re: Best Appearance Mods

Originally Posted by f18pilot5
couldnt find the seller..
what model bmw did u look up?
These are the halos.Same seller & price, just his website.
http://www.hidguy.net/index.php?main...roducts_id=836
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Old Nov 12, 2010 | 09:25 AM
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Re: Best Appearance Mods

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These are the halos.Same seller & price, just his website.
http://www.hidguy.net/index.php?main...roducts_id=836

howd u get them inside ur lights?
and do u have projectors?
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Old Nov 12, 2010 | 10:28 AM
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You have to remove lense, yes i have projectors.
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Old Nov 27, 2010 | 08:36 PM
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Re: Best Appearance Mods

Racing Seats and trans am shifter
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for those raceing seats what kind of seatbelts do you plan on using, ive wanted raceing seats to but i dont know about the seat belts because i want a 5 poit harness but no rollcage. do you have a rollcage by chance?
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Old Nov 27, 2010 | 11:04 PM
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You don't need to have a rollcage to have a 5pt. harness. It doesn't look like he has one at all.
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Old Nov 28, 2010 | 12:37 AM
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Re: Best Appearance Mods

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Racing Seats and trans am shifter
for those raceing seats what kind of seatbelts do you plan on using, ive wanted raceing seats to but i dont know about the seat belts because i want a 5 poit harness but no rollcage. do you have a rollcage by chance?[/QUOTE]

No cage, I run the stock seatbelts and they fit just fine.

A shifter from an 89 Cavalier will work as well....they look similar to the trans-am style
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Old Nov 28, 2010 | 01:01 AM
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Re: Best Appearance Mods

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Racing Seats and trans am shifter
I like the disco ball... Whats going on with the masons symbol...
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Old Nov 28, 2010 | 01:23 AM
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Re: Best Appearance Mods

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I like the disco ball... Whats going on with the masons symbol...
Thanks....it's an inside joke with some members of the car club. Look great at night. You can get a disco ball from the dollar store, just look in the Christmas decorations section.

Oh yea...I'm also a proud mason
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Old Nov 28, 2010 | 01:29 AM
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lol, awesome
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Old Dec 7, 2010 | 12:24 PM
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Re: Best Appearance Mods

Lol at the disco ball. That's pretty awesome all in itself lol
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Old Dec 7, 2010 | 12:42 PM
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Re: Best Appearance Mods

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You don't need to have a rollcage to have a 5pt. harness.
Yea, but which one is going to protect you more in the event of a high speed rollover?
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Old Dec 16, 2010 | 10:24 PM
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Re: Best Appearance Mods

Are you planning on rolling your car over? If so then the rollcage would be good, but if you're just gonna DD it then the racing seat would be fine. The only real reason I'd cage one of these cars as a DD would be to stiffen it up some but thats what SFC's are for.
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Old Dec 16, 2010 | 10:47 PM
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Re: Best Appearance Mods

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Oh yea...I'm also a proud mason
4 months till i'm 21!
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Old Dec 19, 2010 | 12:15 AM
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Old Feb 23, 2011 | 05:41 PM
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Re: Best Appearance Mods

Originally Posted by Orinackra
Polished aluminum door sills
4th gen kick panels
4th gen door panels
red painted gauge rings
lt1 style center console
mba billet shift ****
early 3rd gen steering wheel
led map and cargo lights
blazer roof console

I'm currently working on covering the interior plastics and sun visors with some nice high grade vinyl. I got sick of my doors and kick panels and dash being dark and the rest being that light gray, but no pics of that yet. I only am about half done, and its slow going.


Wow, I waish I had the *****..err I mean the nerve to put that console in my 87. It looks freaking awesome.. Stone
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Old Feb 23, 2011 | 07:53 PM
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Re: Best Appearance Mods

I love Project-RS's pic of his fuel cell area becasue that is by far one of the best tools anybody can ever invest in. A SAWZ-ALL!!!! Anytime I'm working on the teardown part of a project or building custom subwoofer boxes I always find myself using it...
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Old Feb 23, 2011 | 08:29 PM
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Re: Best Appearance Mods

Originally Posted by Orinackra
Polished aluminum door sills
4th gen kick panels
4th gen door panels
red painted gauge rings
lt1 style center console
mba billet shift ****
early 3rd gen steering wheel
led map and cargo lights
blazer roof console

I'm currently working on covering the interior plastics and sun visors with some nice high grade vinyl. I got sick of my doors and kick panels and dash being dark and the rest being that light gray, but no pics of that yet. I only am about half done, and its slow going.


How or where did you go to get the red stitching on teh shifter boot? and IMO your interior is looking sweet. wonder if I could pull somethin like that on the '91...
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Old Feb 24, 2011 | 08:46 PM
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Re: Best Appearance Mods

how did you guys get the 4th gen console in? mine is in bad shape, and not too many 3rd gens out here in the j-yards, let alone with any consoles. lots of 4th gens though. i have an auto with power window switches, power mirrors, and yeah. can someone pm me the install please please please?????
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