Need help with Interior

[frankoman87]

I'm looking to restore my 87 LX Mustang interior. Right now, it has the crappy original red interior with red carpeting and red seats. The seats and carpeting are easy to replace but what do I do about replacing the dash and the kick panels??

I'm having a hard time finding replacement parts online and I'm wondering if I'm going to have to have the dash dyed black. If so, are dye jobs typically easy and do they look good when finished?? I just don't want to lose the shine of the dash.

 

[mondos90lx]

look in a junkyard and see if you can find one with a full black interior and swap that out, or else you will prob have to dye the dash, but what are you going to do about the door skins

 

[frankoman87]

That's a good question. My LX doesn't have power windows or locks and the door skins are part vinyl, part cloth. I may have to go to a junkyard to get those replaced too because I couldn't imagine trying to dye cloth and having it look decent. The only thing with a junkyard is it'll probably be difficult to find an old stang with a nice interior.

 

[bubba-dough]

I don't want to sound mean but there is probably a 2% chance of finding any black interior pieces in a junkyard. Black is an expensive and wanted interior color. By now the junkyards have been raped of black interior parts. The best bet is Ebay for authentic black or get gray and dye it. You don't want to dye red to black. It is hard and looks like crap when it starts getting old. If you want new parts that you can dye any color http://50resto.com/ some of their stuff is pricey but some of the things there are really hard to find.

 

[Mustang5L5]

I agree...gonna be hard to find black in a j/y...let alone one in good shape.


Start with the easy stuff. Replace your carpet with new black carpet, get black floormats and dye your headliner or replace it.

Next maybe get some black seats and install them.

Then try to peice together a black interior or get the parts together to dye it.

Here's a shot of my mixed interior during my black interior conversion. I kinda liked the red and black theme....but i eventually went all black. I had the dash, but needed a new console before i could do the swap.

 

[skinnypGT]

is dying the interior easy.. and does it look good ??
I am thinking about changing mine out

 

[Black 93 Fox]

Its not something that just can be done. I have done it twice now 1st time it came off really easy. 2nd time well lets just say its still black. I used the dye from summit and put thin coats on multi times and it came out pretty good. You MUST have the item you are dyeing absolutely CLEAN of wax and grease other wise it will scratch off very easy.

 

[Fencestang]

When I was contemplating my interior swap, one of my options was to dye, and found some good vinyl paint at a PPG store. I bought a can of the Landau Black and the complimenting cleaner then selected a few of the original grey interior pieces that were either high visability, high traffic, etc. I sprayed the armrest, glovebox face, and a few others. They all held up remarkably well and are still good today 3 yrs later. The only reason I didn't do the whole interior was that I came across an excellent 93 4-cyl vert with black interior and swapped interiors, it took a day and a half altogether. The later is definately my recommendation, but the other is very do-able. As for the door panels, I made completely new ones for under 50 bucks!!! Really easy, just a little patience.

 

[QDRHRSE]

Wow. You are taking on a big job(if you can't find an entire matching interior)! I did this once to a convertible and it was a lot of work. First of all be careful about the year dash you get. Not all Fox dashes interchange. They are available used. It's damn near impossible to fing good door panels. Take your originals and have them redone- it cost me $180 or so. Carpet you can get pretty cheap new as well as seat belts. Have an interior place recover the headliner panel- $100. The plastic panels are the hardest part. Different years had different shades of grey so you need to also be carefull to match the colors corectly. The rear panels are hard to find but they're out there be patient. Kick panels shouldn't be hard to find. Good luck!