White on White - Complete Interior Swap

[JKmotorsports]

Looking good Bobby. You only have a couple weeks before the H-town meet. Think you might have it done? If my schedule wasnt so hectic, I'd drive up there for a weekend and help you put it all back together. But man, I'll be in Corpus for a few days next week, then flying out to Minnesota for four days the week after that, then Cancun for a week. The one weekend I'll actually be in town will be spent at the meet in Houston. And I still have to rebuild the rearend in my truck by the time the htown meet comes around. Anyway, hopefully you'll have it all wrapped up in a couple weeks. Can't wait to check it out bro.

 

[BOSS]

Looking good Bobby. You only have a couple weeks before the H-town meet. Think you might have it done? If my schedule wasnt so hectic, I'd drive up there for a weekend and help you put it all back together. But man, I'll be in Corpus for a few days next week, then flying out to Minnesota for four days the week after that, then Cancun for a week. The one weekend I'll actually be in town will be spent at the meet in Houston. And I still have to rebuild the rearend in my truck by the time the htown meet comes around. Anyway, hopefully you'll have it all wrapped up in a couple weeks. Can't wait to check it out bro.

Damnn man looks like we're both in a crunch now! That's a crazy schedule man!

I think mine will be done...I ran out of paint so I had to order some more but looking good


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[BOSS]

So here are a couple interesting pics of the TOUGHEST pieces to paint, the air vents from the headliner. They are tough because they are so tiny and there are so many angles to hit without globbing up the paint! What I did was tune the settings on my non-HVLP gun to basically allow me to create a airbrush type of spray. I did this by putting a very very tiny amount of pressure on the trigger.

It literally took me no less than 4 hours to prep and paint the 6 air vents...most of the time was painting of course....ugh!


Posting this up too because I think this piece came out really nice, the two textures give it a very cool look:


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[thehoe92]

all these pieces are looking very sick!!
I love them, post a couple more pictures and my interior will probably be gutted waiting to be painted

 

[BOSS]

So my new windshield gets installed tomorrow...had to order a new one because the one I have has a couple chips and tons of teeeny tiny little "nicks"...I guess nicks is the best word to describe it but they look like extremely miniature rock chips in the glass.

The reason I'm replacing the windshield is I'm tinting the whole truck out this week, and hopefully next week I will get to install my windshield tint to protect my dash. I went with a really high end tint, 3M Crystalline. They offer a 70% visible light which is perfect for doing a windshield. The 3M Crystalline is a much more expensive product, considered an exotic tint by most accounts. To give you an idea, the windshield pieces I bought for my truck and my wife's Honda cost me $320.

Here's a link to the tint:
http://www.prescriptionwindshields.com/PrescriptionWindshields/product.htm

 

[Narco]

cant wait to see an album full of all the pics and a how to write up!

 

[BOSS]

So as it turns out, my interior will not be ready before next week unfortunately...I'm tempted to just put it on hold for now and stop rushing but we'll see. Most of the work is complete but the hold up is the seats. I ordered from Katzkin through a BP of theirs and after going back and forth over the damn logo for almost 5 days now, there's an additional 3-5 day turn around for digitizing the letters for embroidering..very frustrating as I expected to have them by now. Just word to the wise, Katzkin cannot produce any custom embroider designs in their seats for the average consumer in less than 10 days time it seems to me...

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[NJ04HOE]

I'm in anticipation to see final pics!! Those painted doors above look HOT, you're gonna have the hottest interior of all NBS models when its all done.

Hell yeah!
I can't wait to see it

 

[BOSS]

The new windshield went in on Wednesday, it looks so much clearer than my stock POS. I had them put the stickers towards the bottom of the glass side by side so I could maximize protecting the dash with the tint. In Texas, the inspection and registration windshield stickers can be one on top of the other, or side by side at the bottom of the glass. So since you have to cut a rectangle out of the tint for the stickers, I chose to put them at the bottom instead of the side which would have exposed more dashboard to the sun and uv rays.


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[BOSS]

So the doors are done, just need to put in the front door side storage buckets....still haven't put em on because I'm getting the windows tinted Wed.

Front door


Front door close up - I love that white french stitch


Rear door


And this is what my formal dining room looks like



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[thehoe92]

...and it continues to get better!!!

I'm lovin this thread

keep it up Boss

 

[jdpromo33]

Cannot wait to see this all done.

 

[BOSS]

Thanks tahoe92

Also re-covered the grab-bar with the white french stitch to match the doors and seats:



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[killer20072001]

That looks SSSOOOOOOOOOO GOOD!

 

[BillBlatt18]

That is ****** sweet!!!

 

[denalianyone]

The new windshield went in on Wednesday, it looks so much clearer than my stock POS. I had them put the stickers towards the bottom of the glass side by side so I could maximize protecting the dash with the tint. In Texas, the inspection and registration windshield stickers can be one on top of the other, or side by side at the bottom of the glass. So since you have to cut a rectangle out of the tint for the stickers, I chose to put them at the bottom instead of the side which would have exposed more dashboard to the sun and uv rays.


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If you scotch tape the regy & inspection behind the tint it would stilll be visible as well..depending on the % of tint. Once it needs changing it will not cause damage to the tint.

 

[Narco]

+1

your truck is gonna look CRAZY. i love the black paint. how much time did you spend prepping each door panel?

 

[BOSS]

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your truck is gonna look CRAZY. i love the black paint. how much time did you spend prepping each door panel?

Thanks for the props guys

Takes about 30-45mins prep per door panel...definitely a little longer on mine because I had to tape off the inserts and carpet. I didn't want to scuff the new paint with all the poking/prodding that needs to be done with the inserts and carpet install. Basically you have to stuff them both inside the crevices to make it look stock.

Door Panel prep:
1) Clean with dishwasher detergent and an non-scuff pad from grocery store
2) Clean with SEM Soap and a green scuff pad
3) Rinse with distilled water
4) Clean with Vinyl Prep
5) Rinse with distilled water

I used distilled water and rags because my water is pretty heavy out where I live. I wanted the panels as free of contaminants as possible. I used about 12-15 rags for all 4 doors..I have to do laundry every time I did a major step in this interior mod

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[Modded]

Those black door panels looks so good, funny how your work looks better than the factory door panel design.
Did you wrap that headliner on your own, is it suede?
I called around dome local dallas shops about a suede headliner and the prices started at $550 and went up to $1700 (JR's Auto Custom can suck mine for that), $550 seems like to much just for the headliner alone, know of any shops?

NO ***** intentions, just need some info...

 

[BOSS]

Those black door panels looks so good, funny how your work looks better than the factory door panel design.
Did you wrap that headliner on your own, is it suede?
I called around dome local dallas shops about a suede headliner and the prices started at $550 and went up to $1700 (JR's Auto Custom can suck mine for that), $550 seems like to much just for the headliner alone, know of any shops?

NO ***** intentions, just need some info...

I'm personally not a fan of the suede...seems very played out now and quite frankly looks messy to me? To each their own of course.

Anyways, my headliner is stitched material that comes in Lexus vehicles. There were two things I didn't do myself here, the headliner and the perforated vinyl pieces...I was focused on painting and just wasn't confident in my headlining skills nor my ability to sew a double white stitch


Man these doors get my blood pressure up...they came out really fukn good

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