My New Interior - Finally got pics!

Bornstanger

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yeah i have to agree. doesn't look all to good with the tan interior. now i realize that you are getting fr500 seats...but please tell they will coordinate with your new colors and not the tan. tan interiors . awesome job though.

 

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GinoGT said:

And your Cobra R splitter and Cobra R wing..............aren't?

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great job man. if i ever get to convince my dad to help me take off the dash i wanna dye mine (so the dye for sale at 50resto.com. the only thing i would be concerned about is what about the dye fading or something? this doenst look like a project you wanna redo.

 

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Thanks for all the compliments/suggestions all.

As far as the color combo goes...The red peices are very very easy to change, it was mainly an experimentation of what red would look like with the black/tan. I can always make all those red peices black, or even tan.

So far I like it, the main object of this project was to get rid of the ugly olive-green looking color that ford decided was necessary for the top half of a tan interior.

How long it took?
Well...heh, awhile. About 4 hours to remove the dash the first time. 1 hour to tape it up, 1 hour total for all painting, and about 3.5 hours for reinstallation.

So....9.5 hours?

 

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mike2858 said:

great job man. if i ever get to convince my dad to help me take off the dash i wanna dye mine (so the dye for sale at 50resto.com. the only thing i would be concerned about is what about the dye fading or something? this doenst look like a project you wanna redo.

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My friend had an uncle that redyed 2 of his old fixup car dashes about 5 years ago I believe, maybe even longer ago than that. No problems yet.

The key is prep

Make sure you get some soapy water and a scotchbrite pad and go to town on the thing.

P.S. YOU WILL BE SHOCKED HOW DIRTY YOUR DASH REALLY IS!

 

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wow, what a pain for dash removal/put back. wow

 

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MY DASH ISNT DIRTY!!!!!!!

where did you get your dye from? i dont remember exactly but i thought you told me autozone? what else goes into the prep work?

 

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mike2858 said:

MY DASH ISNT DIRTY!!!!!!!

where did you get your dye from? i dont remember exactly but i thought you told me autozone? what else goes into the prep work?

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Yah autozone.

Prep work, for me it was just lots of soapy water and scotchbrite.

Some people have to really work hard to get all the armor-all or other chemicals previously used ( I can't remember how to get these off, maybe it is just soapy water, but I think I remember hearing something about rubbing alcohol)

If you have an older car where the dashes weren't dyed from the factory, I think you have to STRIP the paint

But don't take my word for all of those. For me it was just soapy water and a superb tape job.

OH!!! By the way, see the pic of painting with my friend wearing the mask? GET A RESPIRATOR, ITS WORTH IT! NOT a flimsy mask like us. Dye smells about 30x worse than spray paint and it will burn your nostrils and throat. It was terrible hehe

Only GOOD part, the dye drys in like 15minutes so it doesn't take long to dye at all

 

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i like it a bit

 

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where can i find instructions on removing my dash??? by the way great job on the dash it looks awesome!

 

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turbokid said:

where can i find instructions on removing my dash??? by the way great job on the dash it looks awesome!

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Heh, it's so crazy I don't think they make one

If I could go back and do it over again, I probably wouldn't have bothered. It is seriously a really hard task and can be very frustrating. Not to mention the 2 dozen cuts all over my hands and arms, as well as my friends hands and arms from reaching up to pull out electrical connectors.

But, all said and done. I'm very glad I did do it.

 

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Looks good! Your hard work paid off and it shows, awesome quality! I especially like the Dave and Tim CD sitting in the passenger seat!!!!

 

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Ron Jeremy

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The dashboard looks really unique. Not many Mustang interiors are done up like this. You said earlier that if the paint chips that you willl have to take off the dashboard again and touch it up. Are you talking about the main dashboard piece or are you talking about the painted plastic mouldings that are clipped on to the dashboard? Which pieces are you talking about which will need to be taken off to touch up if there are paint chips? I would assume that if the main dashboard gets any chips in it that you will have to take apart the whole dashboard again just to fix it. Is this true?

 

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Blev said:

GinoGT said:

And your Cobra R splitter and Cobra R wing..............aren't?



LMAO

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You hurt me big Guy!!

How on earth is anything from a Cobra R ---- RICEY??

I said that dash looks Ricey because my 21 yr old has a friend with a total Rice Grinder that did the same thing to his whole interior--YO!

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Ron Jeremy said:

The dashboard looks really unique. Not many Mustang interiors are done up like this. You said earlier that if the paint chips that you willl have to take off the dashboard again and touch it up. Are you talking about the main dashboard piece or are you talking about the painted plastic mouldings that are clipped on to the dashboard? Which pieces are you talking about which will need to be taken off to touch up if there are paint chips? I would assume that if the main dashboard gets any chips in it that you will have to take apart the whole dashboard again just to fix it. Is this true?

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I was talking about the other interior peices(The red ones), not the dash. The dash is DYED which is what the factory uses (I believe, about 99% sure that after 1999 ford started just dying the dashes instead of making each one a diff color). The dye should never chip and as I said my friends uncle hasnt had a single problem in years.

The other peices are just normal spray paint, so they will chip eventually i'm sure. But they are not hard at all to fix. Just unscrew it, pop it off, spray it, wait 30min, put it back in.

 

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Okay. Thanks for the clarification here.

 

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TacBear said:

You hurt me big Guy!!

How on earth is anything from a Cobra R ---- RICEY??

I said that dash looks Ricey because my 21 yr old has a friend with a total Rice Grinder that did the same thing to his whole interior--YO!

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I was kidding

Your car looks hot, just needs a blower.

 

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wow, that looks amazing

 

SunburstGoldGT

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Thats look good, i like how it matches your exterior. I just painted my easy to remove pieces and it was a pain so i could only imagine what you went through. Unique.

 

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Funny, I have an 02 vert, white with the same color tan/partchment interior. I had just been to an interior shop earlier today to discuss with them the possibility of changing all of the "darker brown/tan/ whatever color it is", dash pieces to black.

I was also going to do the carpet in black as well as the speaker grilles in the lower door panels. I thought this would bring the interior contrasts out a bit better. Your dash looks great. Thanks for posting the pics. Now I can get an idea of what it would look like.