Interior Makeover (Page 1/7)
liv4God AUG 04, 04:04 AM
I've decided its time to redo my interior. Look at the following pictures and you will know why lol.
I will try to keep this updated of the progress. First for the before shots. (Note: the car was a mess too which may add to its poor appearance.)







I am already much ahead of this step, but I will post things every few days or so to keep it moving.
Plans include:
-New Carpet
-Reupholster seats
-leather wrap steering wheel
-new sun visors
-various consol and interior pieces to be vinyl covered
-Redo led strips
-redo subwoofer enclosures for shallow mount subs and gain some leg room back
-aluminum HVAC cover custom made for 2DIN stereo and switched position of HVAC controls
-Other random stuff here and there

[This message has been edited by liv4God (edited 08-04-2016).]

2.5 AUG 04, 12:00 PM
How are you going to go about reupholstering your seats? Old stock? Unpholster shop? Mr mikes?
liv4God AUG 04, 01:37 PM
Mr. Mikes, I ordered the Vetter style. Red inserts with dark grey bolsters.
liv4God AUG 05, 07:09 AM
Removed some of the interior pieces, door panels, center consol etc. Sent out parts to be vinyl covered and steering wheel is out to be wrapped. I put a 3 spoke wheel on while mine gets covered, but it is not a Fiero wheel. I still need to drive the car so I can't totally take everything apart yet. I used fabric paint to blacken the speaker grills. I had redone the grills only a few years ago and they had already faded a bit, so rather than replace it again I will try this method and see which lasts longer. Also replacing the dot matrix bezels with the brushed aluminum look since the stereo/HVAC bezel will be made with brushed aluminum. Also conditioned the dashboard to make it shine a little bit and appear darker without painting it. And cleaning up wiring. Various pics of the progress below.
trivet AUG 05, 09:03 AM
Good progress!

I'm very interested to see how your radio bezel turns out - as I'm also in the middle of an interior restoration.
I ended up going with a single DIN unit, but I eventually want to add a double DIN Pioneer (very similar to the one you are using).

Good luck, keep up the great work.

Tim
liv4God AUG 06, 01:22 AM
Thanks Trivet!
I'm excited to see how the bezel turns out as well. I measured all the sides, angles etc and made a drawing which I gave to a machine shop to make. As long as I made no measuring errors it should come out nice.
liv4God AUG 06, 01:32 AM
A few more things done. Mostly waiting for parts to arrive or be completed for now. Also since I still need to drive the car for another week I can't do too much more for the meantime anyway.

A lot of the interior parts like door handles, steering wheel, consol, etc will be gray with red stitching, so I thought it would be good to make the dash map pocket match. When I first bought the car I put in a map pocket from an 86 GT because the cloth matched my seats. But now reverting back to the original look (88 formula). Bought this one last week and just finished making the stitching red.


I think it turned out pretty well



Also, unrelated to the interior, but I recently got an S10 booster and painted it now. Should be able to install it this weekend
tshark AUG 06, 12:46 PM
What red strips?

You have a speaker above the ”glove box”? Are those LED strips along the center console?

Nice door emblems and horn emboss. Those may need to be changed to red to match.

Russ88TTop does vinyl wraps on some interior items.
liv4God AUG 06, 01:37 PM

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Originally posted by tshark:

What red strips?

You have a speaker above the ”glove box”? Are those LED strips along the center console?

Nice door emblems and horn emboss. Those may need to be changed to red to match.

Russ88TTop does vinyl wraps on some interior items.



I apologize, but I'm not quite sure what you are asking in the first question.

I have a mid range speaker and tweeters above the glove box. They are powered by a separate amplifier so if it is adjusted correctly this set up can sound amazing and really improves balance. If you ever feel like you hardly hear the right side this will solve it. You could also adjust balance and fader, but then if you have a passenger they will have way too much on their right. This set up allows both people to have a good balance at the same time.

Yep, there are leds along the center console, door (along the ridge where it switched to carpet) under the dash and around the subwoofers behind the seats. It was really cool for a while, but eventually the ones along the center console fell down and looked bad. I'm going to do it again, but I'll use a better adhesion method.

Thanks! For the emblems I used regular washable hobby paint and painted until all the slots were filled in. Then with a wet cloth wiped off any mistakes. I will be switching them to red.

Russ88TTop is doing many of my parts Very excited about that
tshark AUG 06, 05:12 PM
I mis-read your first post. You wrote ”new LED strips” but I read ”new red strips”.

I wouldn't know about the radio. I rarely use it.