Pics of my interior

I painted some pieces silver, and also i did some LED lighting. I have aluminum guage overlays so i was experimenting with how to get a nice glow on them. The radio bezel was not really meant to turn out the way it did. I at first tried some of those LED spot lights you see in stores, after i thoguht it looked stupid i had some holes in the bezel so i decided to cut the entire grove out and i used a piece of glow tube cut in half to fill the gap, i have 6 LEDs behind that. I ground out maybe a 1/4 inch from the bezel to let the light shine down onto the overlay.

I know I'm going to get some people cry rice, but i like the way it turned out actually.

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Love the interior

That looks really classy to me. I plan on doing some of the same pieces silver to liven up the interior of my car here in a few weeks. Did you prep those pieces at all or just spray paint them silver? Like the lights too by the way.

Thanks for the good comments.

I did prep the pieces by sanding. i had a few deep scratches so i started with 60 grit and worked my way up. it doesn't have to be perfectly smooth like when working with wood. I then primed some peices, you really don't need to, but the primer really shows where you may need to sand again, or it will help smooth out your sanding job. I put a few coats of silver on, i wet sanded some of them, once i had a nice smooth surface, i then cleared them till i didn't feel like spraying anymore. I had troubles with the guage bezel, i'm not completely happy with it, mostly because my clear coat can was spitting. I may have the stuff painted when my car gets painted though.

I'm going to do the hard plastic cover on teh center console soon, but i was waiting till i can afford a new shifter knob. Take your time and it will turn out good.

very classy, nice job.

where did you get the LEDs? and how hard was it to wire them in?

Thats not rice. Trust me I have been in the Honda/Acura scene for years and I can spot rice from a blimp in a fog storm! That looks great! Your whole car is the shiznit!

If you believe thats Rice, then a Stock Honda is a Rice Crop! Thats FAR FAR FAR FAR FAR from rice!!! Nicely done man, you just put the ideas that I wanted to do for my car to shame!! I'd like to use silver too but I don't think that goes well with tan... Keep up the good work!

SVT03, i did not paint them, they are aluminum overlays from MBA. I removed the original 12v lights, and ran my LEDs right off the open circuit.

z28marine, i bought the LEDs from http://superbrightleds.com/
They are very simple to wire, if you only want one, you wire one 470 ohm resistor in series with the LED.

Damn, I think that looks really nice man :cool:

Too bad you can't get the guages to glow blue to match everything else, because that's the only thing I see wrong.

looks damn good! How long did it take you to paint those pieces? Might get around to doing that this weekend if Im lucky!!

I agree with RS Dragster, change out the LEDs behind your gauges

Originally posted by coogsLS1
looks damn good! How long did it take you to paint those pieces? Might get around to doing that this weekend if Im lucky!!

I agree with RS Dragster, change out the LEDs behind your gauges
I don't know if it's as easy as LED's. I had my guages out once, I didn't see what was making it that color. It might just be white lights behind a orange/red lining. :confused:

yes there is a lining back there, not as simple as new bulbs. It can be done though, i'm probably going to get some reverse gloq guages though.

Thanks

they cost to much, but now that they are illuminated a little i like them. I wish MBA would just cut out the lighted areas so we could make better use of them

what was that illustration that was made by a member with the locations of the dash gauge lighting. He just switched out the LED lights and it changed the glow color. I could be wrong tho...

the camaros can be done like that, the firebirds have a red film over the backing which is not easy to remove

I didnt know that, thanks for the info!!

That looks great! I like it. A lot of times I don't like many interior mods like that but as has been mentioned previously, I think yours came out "classy" looking!

Did you change the lights in the doors that illuminate the locks and windows switches? What LED bulbs did you buy from that place?

-Derek
very nice by the way!

Yes, i pulled out the red bulb and its holder from behind the doors, and just widen the hole a little so the new LED would fit in. The bulbs i bought are the Part Number: RL5-B5515 Honestly, i think you can go with the weaker ones in the doors, I'm not going to change mine out now though

Did you just use regular old spray paint? If so, what brand of paint? I bought the Wal-Mart brand silver and clear, but i have yet to do it. Any other suggestions before I dive into painting?

I like the interior especially the blue lighting!

looks sharp....nice job

wow, i like all the good responses:bow:

Crazyjim, ithought about a differnt shade, but that is a CLOSE match to my exterior, but after seeing it with my aluminum overlays a darker shade would set them apart. When my car gets painted i'll decide then.

cbuns55, I used the plastikote stuff from pepboys. It worked well for me, except i had a can of clear that was spitting and i have a few dark tiny spots on my guage bezel. Some stress prepping more than anything, I do recomend sanding as it doesn't take much longer. Primer is not neccessary, but i again recomend it, it will at least show you how good your sanding job is before the base coat. only need to base coat it until it looks good, then spray clear till you dont' want to anymore. clear needs to be really light smooth coats if you want a nice smooth finish. Start with easy pieces like the radio bezel and the door trims, the bezel is the hardest to do because of the curves. Don't try to rush all the pieces in one day unless you have the room to lay everything out.

My finance already scratched one of my door pieces with her ring, so i'd strongly recommend fewer coats to keep it thin, although I think she would have scratched the unpainted surface with how hard she hit it:rolleyes: Sometimes I think about not allowing passengers in my car.

I like it a lot

I see nothing rice about it!!!!


good job man. The factory lighting is so dim that you almost HAVE to upgrade to something different. You should check out "rhinosarehorny" car. He did something like that to his including his vents.

as far as the gauge lighting go.. the camaro have a blue film in all of their gauges, HAVC, and headligth control knob areas. I have replced all of my lights with white LEDS and it still has a sort of bluish tint to it. You cannot remove this film period. You can however do a gauge cluster swap out of a camaro into a TA if you want the Blue gauges. I have seen it done several times. The LEDS behind the gauges are size 194 bulbs and are just straight plug in

I was under the impression that they weren't an exact replacement, am i wrong

I have 5 feet of electro light tape here, i'm not sure what i want to do with it if anything. it was my original idea for adding some light to the aluminum.

I don't see any rice :cool:

Awesome job :thumb:

Looks awesome man.....great work!