Trans Am Door panels FTMFW

 

wow.. that looks bad ***.. good job.

 

looks great man! I went to Wal Mart last night and got some black dye to do my carpet. Did you pull all the carpet out and soak it in a big wash tub or something? How did you go about doing it?

 

Hopefully you got at least 3 bottles! I did 4 total and probably could've put more on.
The way I did it was I completely removed the carpet, laid it in the driveway and hosed it down completely. I had it completely wet, then put the dye into a spray bottle and just sprayed it down. I did about a 70% dye, 30% HOT water mixture to be able and spread the dye out. I did it 2x, let it dry and was going to put it back in but there was black dusting that got on everything it touched...so I washed it down and re-did it 2 more times. If you keep the carpet wet when doing it, the dye will distribute evenly.
After I was content w/ the color, and I couldn't wash out anymore residue from the carpet, I scotchguarded it up 3x total so it should be almost waterproof.
Just take your time, apply the dye evenly and you will be amazed at what you come up w/. Look at my old carpet before I stained it....I thought it was long gone and this was just an attempt...but now it looks as good if not better than a new carpet and it cost me very little but some time.
Any other q's don't hesitate... I had to figure this all out myself and had quite a bit of trial and error... it kept things interesting!

This was after 2 coats...just needed to be darker for me.

 

BTW, I used the liquid dye...not the powder!

 

Did you do a new headliner or dye the old one?

I might do some of this on my firebird

 

thanks for the advice. All I could find was powder dye so hopefully that will work. Ill just put it in something that I can spray with and do it the same way. I might try to even find a tub or something big enough to soak it in. Ill probably do it this weekend, Ill let you know how it turns out.

 

I re-did it. Strip off all the old fabric, use a green brillo pad and get the foam off. Then go to a fabrics store, I used JoAnn's fabrics, and get some headliner fabric. Apply w/ some spray adhesive and thats it. If you have t-tops, its a pain in the *** to stretch around that inner curve.

Powder dye should be fine. If you could fit it in a tub, it'd def be even....I didn't want to dye my tub. Let me know how it works out for future reference if you would though!

 

for the plastic panels did you prime and clear coat them. because i painted mine black(no prime or clear) and the piece beside the drivers seat is losing paint from getting in and out.

 

Looks good.