Hey Guys,

I was wondering if anyone knew of good how to info on door panel recovering and custom interior tips. I am thinking about recovering my door panels. I put leather seats in but my door panels are still cloth.

One of my biggest questions is how do people put custom designs and indentations in their interior?

Let me know guys.

Shawn

 

I know Marky82 had a very hard time recovering his door panels. He highly recommended that an upholstery shop do those. You might want to run a search on his name. He had posted about the problems with the door panels...

Do you have pics of your new interior?

Good luck!

E

 

If I were you I would get them done professionaly!! I tried to do one of my door panels and it didn't come out well. You need a high powered air stapler (air compressed), a staple remover and experience!!! Then say you get everything together you still have to some how get the plastic to stick back together (originally they were melted). I used JB weld and it worked but it isn't perfect, i'm just going to buy new door panels and get them professionaly done. I'm in the library at school now so I don't have the address but on my community webshot page there are pics of my door panels and the problems I had. Do a seach under my SN i'm sure the site will pop up.



Mark

 

If your going to buy new door panels why not just buy the ones with leather?

 

B/c I want the door panel inserts to be red

 

so why not buy a light color door panel and then dye them

 

B/c the dye may not exactly match my red seats

 

I just did mine today, for my 86 Z-28. I wanted designs in my door panels too so i went and got some panels off a 88 TA which have 3 different sections on it (cloth-top, vinyl-middle, carpet-bottom) but the vinyl section is made in an arc. So I covered the cloth and carpet in vinyl, dyed all three sections light gray. They're still drying off but look real good. I still might dye the arc section blue to match my carpet (I'll know tommorow). It was'nt a hard thing to do and took all of 2 hours to cut the vinyl, size it up, clean the door panel, re-cover, and paint them. I'm not using clear gloss on the panels because it's soft vinyl. All in all I was'nt gonna do the job, I actually went to my buddy who owns a customizing shop and he was so backed up with business (show seasons coming up) that I decided to do them myself, it's worth doing!!! And too easy to let the shops do it They'll be installed after I finish painting the door accents in Candy blue. Be patient yall cause the whole interior is almost finished and it's gonna look different than anyones else's 3rd Gen on Camaroz28.com

Current list (already installed)
Royal blue carpet-----#410 gray vinyl dyed all plastic pieces(removed from car first)-----"Candy" blue shifter post, parking brake, console vents, rear hatch supports, window switch outer rings----- Anodized royal blue and clear "Quest" racing pedals (blacklight)-----Door panels, rear hatch carpet re-covered in vinyl and dyed.

check http://camaroz28.cardomain.com/id/stangkilla1 and go to page 3 for install updates

 

Well I know it cant be too difficult from people I have talked to that did it themselves. There is also a how to instruction on ProjectTransam that is pretty self explanatory. I just want detailed info on do custom designs and what not. Anyone?

Shawn

 

N E 1 else?

Shawn

 

its not that difficult. go to the junk yard and get ANY door pannel. this is for practice so it wont matter. tear apart the pannel and sepperate the pieces. remove the cloth and set aside. cut a new cloth piece from the stockpile of your choice in the sameshape, only about one inch bigger on all sides. lay the new piece on the pannel and wrap the cloth around. staple, glue, or push the cloth until its tight and has no wrinkles. let dry if needed and put the pannel back together. if there are more than one pieces, do them then put back together

 

Yeah that sounds simple enough but what about doing indentations and what not. Do they build it up with foam or what do they do?
Shawn

 

not sure, sounds like an easy enough task. maybe moulding foam or something. moulding foam is like a soft glue and foam that dries hard. that may be what you are loking for. or custom plastic mouldings for pannels?