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Old 11-11-2010, 12:23 AM
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side note ill be looking at some leather seats tomorrow. wish me luck cause i need these to complete my car!!
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Well picked up full front and rear black leather I30 seats for 300 bucks. Full power, heated, in great condition. Even has the tilted headrest. They just need a little cleaning up and they'll be back to new.
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Love the carbon fiber on the gauges!! What did you use for that? Looks awesome
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Love the carbon fiber on the gauges!! What did you use for that? Looks awesome
+1 that looks sexy. Is it wrapped?
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Would love to have a CF wrapped cluster overlay
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ok this is a tease of a project ive wanted to do for a while now. im rocking the 95 front but ive always wondered what this grill would look like in cf

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AWESOME!!!!
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back to my project. cleaned up the seats and installed them and the new seat belts.. i didnt think the red push button went that well so i changed it to pearl white.. looked kind dull just white so i took a fine point sharpe and filled in the push letters..







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here is a look at what my interior looks like so far

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this will be my center waterfall section i put that 3M fake cf stuff over it and if i dont like it ill just tear it off. so far i like it



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Wow, amazing job dude, especially like the interior work you've done.

Wanna do my car next?
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Originally Posted by TheArtist
ok this is a tease of a project ive wanted to do for a while now. im rocking the 95 front but ive always wondered what this grill would look like in cf

Looks good, ready to do mine now?



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this will be my center waterfall section i put that 3M fake cf stuff over it and if i dont like it ill just tear it off. so far i like it



Ive never been a too much of a fan of the body colored matched interior trim, but thats just me.
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nice pix. IMO you should have gone with black racing seats while u were at it.....
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some parts should be left alone , oem black.. gets a bit ricey throwing colors inside etc IMO
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Originally Posted by aic96max
some parts should be left alone , oem black.. gets a bit ricey throwing colors inside etc IMO
thats why the white cf is a sticker. when he doesnt like it, he will rip it off
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Your work is good, can't find fault with it. The buttons are still black, though. I'd probably leave the stack black for that reason, unless you find some way to white-ize the buttons and panels.
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yeah yeah i know most of you dont like colors inside and what not but.... i could care less lol like paul said if im not feeling it once i put it in the car ill just take it off. really not that big of a deal. got the engine in and tranny just waiting for some parts to come in so i can start the engine.

6spd was a pain in the a$$ to get in and i need to move my ABS up like in inch

Flava dont you have the 95 grill??
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yeah yeah i know most of you dont like colors inside and what not but.... i could care less lol like paul said if im not feeling it once i put it in the car ill just take it off. really not that big of a deal. got the engine in and tranny just waiting for some parts to come in so i can start the engine.

6spd was a pain in the a$$ to get in and i need to move my ABS up like in inch

Flava dont you have the 95 grill??
Yup.
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Old 11-13-2010, 06:09 PM
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carbon fiber looks great! it's something I've always wanted to do to my interior. A little tutorial would be very helpful if you have the time
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Umm you mean the fake white cf stuff?
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Umm you mean the fake white cf stuff?
no what he did on the guage cluster and the 3 other parts
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Originally Posted by MrBr3tt
no what he did on the guage cluster and the 3 other parts
What "he" did?
The Artists is the one who did it, those parts are wrapped. Youtube has quite a bit of how to's on wrapping parts in CF. Similiar to wrapping with FG.
But knowing how to and being able to do it very good is a big difference though.
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wait, you got the engine in already? holy crap you work fast! thats what im talking about.
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Great work so far
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Originally Posted by Flava_24/7
What "he" did?
The Artists is the one who did it, those parts are wrapped. Youtube has quite a bit of how to's on wrapping parts in CF. Similiar to wrapping with FG.
But knowing how to and being able to do it very good is a big difference though.
oh wow I'm sorry I didn't even realize it was the OP and what kind of adhesive would I use?
I screwed up big time (twice actually). I painted the dash and it came out bad due to weather and me not having experience. My friend was helping me then I decided to finish myself which was a bad idea and then I bought a dash kit and the stickers look like crap because I paid $20.
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well this is a delayed build. it been about a month and im just now finishing it up but i know people like looking at pictures and seeing progress so i thought i'd just wait till im almost done.

just spliced the injectors and ill be putting on the IM and intake on tomorrow.

how sould i prime the engine for start up?? i just swapped the timing and all that so i dont want to ruin all that hard work
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oh wow I'm sorry I didn't even realize it was the OP and what kind of adhesive would I use?
I screwed up big time (twice actually). I painted the dash and it came out bad due to weather and me not having experience. My friend was helping me then I decided to finish myself which was a bad idea and then I bought a dash kit and the stickers look like crap because I paid $20.

i honestly would just sand it down with 800 grit get some black primer paint your pieces and then use the dull black vinyl/faberic paint and it will look oem
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Damn this is sexy! Almost makes me wish I still had my old Maxipad.
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Damn this is sexy! Almost makes me wish I still had my old Maxipad.
I always wanted to find lettering to put that on the trunk. change where it says "MAXIMA" to "MAXIPAD" lol
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I always wanted to find lettering to put that on the trunk. change where it says "MAXIMA" to "MAXIPAD" lol

ha wow

umm anyway everyone seems to be assuming that my car is gonna be white or something. i dont do 2 color schemes im more of a 3 color guy. color is called Burple painted the entire car other then the trunk rear bumper lip kit and the entire front. ill be doing all of that this week weather depending.

i know like 90% of you are goning to hate the color but i love it. i threw a pearl on there that changes from red to gold to green so it looks amazing in the sun. mainly royal purple in the sun, dark blue in the shade and almost black at night. so my colors are obviously purple balck and white






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i still need to wetsand then buff the car but ill wait to do that once all the body pieces are back on the car

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so today was the first day my car has touched the ground in 3 months!!!!!





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i can dig it. lol

looks awesome. the color turned out great.
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I like it. It looks unfinished though.....jk jk

Good job
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car's going from looking pretty good to pretty ricey real quick-like...
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How'd you apply the paint?
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I think you may be the first person I've seen on the org paint their red seat belt buttons. I like the ambition
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man this is going to be one crucial 4th gen
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Originally Posted by TheArtist





i still need to wetsand then buff the car but ill wait to do that once all the body pieces are back on the car
I don't care what anybody says, I love the color dude...If I ever get a paintjob, I want the same thing.
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this car will look amazing when it is done.
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