I like it so far...Looks like a lot of work...boy I wish my MAX wasn't my only ride to work casue that is something I would do to my car.

Maybe this winter I'll buy a second car and make my MAX a real show car.

Have to let the carpet sit in the sun, loosens it up some.


Reused the stock hanger/clips. Used a staple gun and cardboard, I think I read that from one of Flav's threads.


FTL!!!!!!!!!!


B-pillars in, carpet vacuumed


Console and dash in.

I will finish up in the morning and have the rest of the pics.

Steering wheel look ugly for now, but wheelskin goes on tomorrow so it will not be brown.

Kev, when you say ACC black carpet...? What do you mean?

BITER!!! j/k, looking good, man. I think this would look GREAT with some chrome/silver accents, very TL-ish.

I haven't done so in ages, but I'm clicking 'subscribed'.

Haha, why were you running the car in the last pic?

Fantastic work, this looks like a HUGE project.

I googled 'ACC carpet'

http://www.accmats.com/

ACC is a big carpet manufacture, they supply stockinteriors.com IIRC. Got mine from rockauto since they had a special. Wait till you guys see my custom floor mats hahaha

Had to turn on the car and make sure everything worked haha, plus needed some jams to finish up the work.

Might get rid of the wood grain in the future and get the "marble/smoke" wood. But not in my budget right now.

As a side note, my three cuts have carpet fibers in them, hope I don't get infected

Big props man, lots of hard work going on there. Your going to love it when its though. It will be like riding in a new car!
Oh, and I think that smoke/marble will look great in yor car.

Whats the clock look like so far?
As in how long has it taken you....

I'm with Flava. This is like wearing brown shoes with a black suit. I do like your attention to detail. The Console lid does look pimp.

Make your own. Youve already proven that you can use a spray can.

So this is what you do when the school semester is over?

Wanna help me and kyle do my s10 pickup? There is a cookie in it for you....

I like the tan/black combo ALOT but i also think the woodgrain needs to go...

+1

I'm living vicariously through your swap. Its the first thing I've checked the last few days at work. I think I love interior work so much cuz I'm avoiding the paint and body work I need.

Thought of another ? for you. What are you doing for the rear deck? Thought of doing something similar to what Anthony did in his old maxima? http://www.cardomain.com/ride/212763

Couple of suggestions.

Paint your center console/arm rest the same color as your dash. It looks different in the last pic posted.

Change your steering wheel to the sexier 99 SE leather wheel and bag. I hated the GLE/GXE airbags. So blah.

Looks sick otherwise.

Tan and black does look ok, just not in a white car, a balck car would pull it off better.
Frankly, I dont know what Nissan was thinking by putting in a tan interior with white exterior to begin with.

Yeah, I want to sand and paint the center console so it is smooth and 100% matching, but that will be later on. I am tired for now and I am gonna head to the beach and drink.

But here it is at last:


Steering wheel looks bad *** in person.






Black leather and tan stitching. I know, the e-brake handle is coming soon...


Shift boot also with alternate stitching, but I think redlinegoods forgot to make it shorter.

Another wheel pic.


Custom floor mats from www.vanmats.com











So not that it is all said and done. It turned out pretty good, the wood doesn't look as bad in person. Painting took a while and hopefully holds up well. Only time will tell. I spent under 500 on this project so I am pretty happy overall. I still want to get the Z pedals so I have a nice footrest. Wood might get changed later on but not now. The center console WILL get painted eventually maybe at the end of the summer.

Originally, I wanted to do a black and silver theme but $$$. I would have cost alot for the way I wanted it.


Summer classes start monday

Looks good man! I cant believe your summer classes start so soon, UCF's start on the 18th.

btw, Im looking for a pearl white passenger fender and bumper. Seen any around up there Kev?

looks good

Nice work Kev.

Be bold and make the center console tan and run it all the way to the ac vents.....

or

maybe you should've left the left/right/center ac vents tan. Dunno. It just seems there's not enough contrast going on in the center console/dash area like you have with the door panels etc.

A+ for effort. Keep it up.

The problem with that is that the dash/centerconsole stuff is that yuk doo doo brown.

Work your magic and fix (paint) it!!

Black and gray would be nice too. I've seen a handful of 4th Gen Maximas with gray interiors. They seem to be hard to come by though.

i like it....different

+1 on the steering wheel cover looking bad ***

Great job. Looks fantastic.

i expected this to drag on much longer. still can't claim to be a fan but for doing what you wanted to do and getting it done.

tan and white is a pretty classic combo imo. where they went wrong is the 2 tones of tan they used. the doo doo brown throws it all off.

There is close to ZERO noise coming from the bottom of the car, but lots of wind noise and noise from the front tires. What to do now? The tires themselves are quiet but you can hear road noise from the front

Make your car fly. .

Wow turned out great. I'm a big fan.

Something about the door panels is bugging me, perhaps the tweeter or the door handles. I wonder how it would look with black door handle cups, or black door handles with the tan cups.

Really looks good though. I love the custom floor mats and you may have inspired me to get a wheelskin cover.

That is sexy a fwack!! I would lay naked inside there





wait

I think he should just do tan leather insert and MAYBE the speaker grill in tan. Everything else should be black on the door.

I love the idea and the way it is executed. I wish I had the time and money to play with the Max like you

I wanna drive up to Gainesville and eat a whole box of saltines in you car.........

look good! I like the two-tone theme, but the center console should be tan, IMO. You have all that tan on the sides of the car and none in the middle.

Also, maybe I'm just illiterate, but where did you say you got the wheel cover?

Random idea I had: Shoot the clear "convenience light" lenses in the doors with niteshades. Right now the white is standing out from the black and tan and it'd clean up the look of the door a bit.

looks like a wheelskins.com cover