White on White - Complete Interior Swap
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I'm sure some guys following this are wondering when are we gunna see some results here 
I intend to post up most of the pictures when it's completed and maybe a video but here's some updates of the painting.
So here's some pictures of the paint booth I built in my 3car garage, it really works well aside from the cold. You can't spray unless it's at least 70deg - well it's not recommended anyway. So I run a portable heater beside the ventilation side and it draws in warm air to heat up the room. I have almost the entire interior to paint and going for 2 coats, so this booth is going to save my ass I think.
It's hard to see from the pictures but the booth takes up almost my entire garage, leaving a walkway to my tools and half of one car space for all my plastic pieces and interior parts.
If any guys in Dallas need something painted, now is the time to hit me up! I'm taking it down when this is all done in December. I've been spending some of my weekends test painting plastic from the junk yard, you have no idea how hard it is to match colors and matte finish when doing this! I've gone through 4 colors of paint trying to get it right from the picture I have in my head.
#001,
Framing it out (The walls and the ceiling plastic both go under the wood frame inside the actual booth so it keeps the atomized spray from going anywhere except the exit vents , the rest of the plastic is staple gun'd to the frame pieces in the drying room)
#006
How I installed the frame by myself with pre-rolling the plastic and sticking it on the nails first...there was literally no other way to do this by myself. I would lay the ceiling pieces and a wall piece on the same board and hoist it up myself...serious pain in the ass man
#014
Paint booth room, with heater LOL
#017
Paint booth - back of the room
#333
Wall seams between the booth and the drying room
I intend to post up most of the pictures when it's completed and maybe a video but here's some updates of the painting.So here's some pictures of the paint booth I built in my 3car garage, it really works well aside from the cold. You can't spray unless it's at least 70deg - well it's not recommended anyway. So I run a portable heater beside the ventilation side and it draws in warm air to heat up the room. I have almost the entire interior to paint and going for 2 coats, so this booth is going to save my ass I think.
It's hard to see from the pictures but the booth takes up almost my entire garage, leaving a walkway to my tools and half of one car space for all my plastic pieces and interior parts.
If any guys in Dallas need something painted, now is the time to hit me up! I'm taking it down when this is all done in December. I've been spending some of my weekends test painting plastic from the junk yard, you have no idea how hard it is to match colors and matte finish when doing this! I've gone through 4 colors of paint trying to get it right from the picture I have in my head.
#001,
Framing it out (The walls and the ceiling plastic both go under the wood frame inside the actual booth so it keeps the atomized spray from going anywhere except the exit vents , the rest of the plastic is staple gun'd to the frame pieces in the drying room)
#006
How I installed the frame by myself with pre-rolling the plastic and sticking it on the nails first...there was literally no other way to do this by myself. I would lay the ceiling pieces and a wall piece on the same board and hoist it up myself...serious pain in the ass man
#014
Paint booth room, with heater LOL
#017
Paint booth - back of the room
#333
Wall seams between the booth and the drying room
#26
Good ol' Dynamat, keeps the plastic and tape from melting
#29
Drying room
#23
Used sockets and a twist tie to hold down the seam between the booth and the drying room
#24
Door between the rooms
#334
Using a fan and washer/dryer hose from Home Depot wrapped in plastic to ventilate all the paint spray. The dryer hose is rigid so it allows the plastic to be seamed up around it easily. There's 3 vents and a fan vent pulling air out. I use dryer sheets on the vent-in and the vent-out to catch the paint spray molecules and keep them from going in the garage. I learned that trick in the college dorm
It's amazing how quickly the room clears when I'm spraying, I didn't think it would honestly. The trick is of course, I have to stay on that side of the room for it to be most effective.
Enjoy
B O S S
Good ol' Dynamat, keeps the plastic and tape from melting
#29
Drying room
#23
Used sockets and a twist tie to hold down the seam between the booth and the drying room
#24
Door between the rooms
#334
Using a fan and washer/dryer hose from Home Depot wrapped in plastic to ventilate all the paint spray. The dryer hose is rigid so it allows the plastic to be seamed up around it easily. There's 3 vents and a fan vent pulling air out. I use dryer sheets on the vent-in and the vent-out to catch the paint spray molecules and keep them from going in the garage. I learned that trick in the college dorm
It's amazing how quickly the room clears when I'm spraying, I didn't think it would honestly. The trick is of course, I have to stay on that side of the room for it to be most effective.
Enjoy
B O S S
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01yukonslt
need more deebeeeez!
have you looked into that stuff called plastidip a lot of the subaru guya have used it in there interiors with great success and it seems to hold up well, not sure if you have painted anything yet but if not its worth looking at
Never heard of it to be honest, I'll keep that in mind. I went with SEM products. They make an elastomeric paint which holds up good to flexing/bending. They have several products to enhance the paint too, a flattener for customizing the look, a reducer to thin it out for spraying and an agent called cross-linker which strengthens the paint against chemicals and abrasions. It will still scratch if you scratch it hard enough of course, but since most OEM plastic is molded, it means the color is in the plastic itself and has more resistance to mild scratching than painted surfaces do.
Here's a test spray I did on junk plastic, I think I got the matte % exactly where I want it now. This is actually listed as a GM black color, although you can clearly see it is NOT a black....adding to the frustration of getting colors correct when you are just going by charts and eyeballing what you want in the result. This one is by no means any perfect piece, I had taped it off, test scratched it throughout 3 coats over a 4 hour period to test different concentrations of cross-linker, repainted it etc. The final coat is a 20% matte finish. I think it's flat enough for my look.
BOSS
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01yukonslt
need more deebeeeez!
heres a link they make a spray as well it gives a slightly rubberized texture that is supposed to stick pretty well i have no first hand experience just know a lot of people seem to have success with it. i have definitely seen SEM products do well too.
http://forums.nasioc.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1669133
http://forums.nasioc.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1669133
BlackDenali
Roof Rack ****
Soo...I have a problem
So I changed some of the design...and I thought I could make it till the Houston meet and not show a soul what I've been doing...I was wrong! It seems I REALLY have the forum addiction because I have to show at least someone wtf I've been up too in my free time
Of course, story of my life with a new baby in the house...nothing is put together yet. I'm on a 23 day crunch till Houston and leather doesn't get here till end of next week...***!
It's kinda hard to picture the end product...but I hope it comes out cool..it's a serious pain in the ass!
Ordered the Black leather last Friday , double Pearl-white stitch, Pearl white inserts(wife convinced me on the inserts...I still have a hard time imagining them in my truck but they break up the black I guess)
(switch the word Katzkin for BOSS)
All of my panels are now semi-matte black:
Did a perforated vinyl on door inserts (painting the rest of the door same color as plastic)
Covered the grab handle in the same perf vinyl with a white double stitch like the leather:
This is how I will feel when it's finally done:
This is how I feel right now doing all this shit day to day!
Anyways, wish me luck! I only have 23 days left basically..have a few yards of the perf vinyl left over, trying to figure out what else to do a white double stitch on.....Ideas?
To put some pressure on myself I'm going to post updates here instead of keeping everything till the end like I originally intended
B
So I changed some of the design...and I thought I could make it till the Houston meet and not show a soul what I've been doing...I was wrong! It seems I REALLY have the forum addiction because I have to show at least someone wtf I've been up too in my free time
Of course, story of my life with a new baby in the house...nothing is put together yet. I'm on a 23 day crunch till Houston and leather doesn't get here till end of next week...***!
It's kinda hard to picture the end product...but I hope it comes out cool..it's a serious pain in the ass!
Ordered the Black leather last Friday , double Pearl-white stitch, Pearl white inserts(wife convinced me on the inserts...I still have a hard time imagining them in my truck but they break up the black I guess)
(switch the word Katzkin for BOSS)
All of my panels are now semi-matte black:
Did a perforated vinyl on door inserts (painting the rest of the door same color as plastic)
Covered the grab handle in the same perf vinyl with a white double stitch like the leather:
This is how I will feel when it's finally done:
This is how I feel right now doing all this shit day to day!
Anyways, wish me luck! I only have 23 days left basically..have a few yards of the perf vinyl left over, trying to figure out what else to do a white double stitch on.....Ideas?
To put some pressure on myself I'm going to post updates here instead of keeping everything till the end like I originally intended
B
Here are some more progress pics of the headliner, I chose the stitch material from Lexus:
Headliner before...ugly ass light tan:
Headliner without cuts yet...you just make X cuts and pull them tight/glue on the backside:
Headliner close up:
After cutting holes for the lights..sorry for the crapass picture:
B
Headliner before...ugly ass light tan:
Headliner without cuts yet...you just make X cuts and pull them tight/glue on the backside:
Headliner close up:
After cutting holes for the lights..sorry for the crapass picture:
B
When I get the doors done today I'll post em up. I'll try to include some better information as I go with how this is all done with painting etc.
The doors are vinyl, they're very hard to recover due to all the curves etc. I'm prepping the vinyl and painting with the same semi-matte black that I used for the door panels.
First thing's first, going to clean/prep/paint a tahoe door I got at the junkyard to make sure I know wtf I'm doing
B
The doors are vinyl, they're very hard to recover due to all the curves etc. I'm prepping the vinyl and painting with the same semi-matte black that I used for the door panels.
First thing's first, going to clean/prep/paint a tahoe door I got at the junkyard to make sure I know wtf I'm doing
B
I saw at Kragen the other day some vinyl paint.. is that what you are using?
sorry if you posted it
I want to see the outcome because like you said its hard to recover the door because of the curves so my next plan was to paint all the tan to black
looking good so far
sorry if you posted it
I want to see the outcome because like you said its hard to recover the door because of the curves so my next plan was to paint all the tan to black
looking good so far
I saw at Kragen the other day some vinyl paint.. is that what you are using?
sorry if you posted it
I want to see the outcome because like you said its hard to recover the door because of the curves so my next plan was to paint all the tan to black
looking good so far
Thanks, I'm using all SEM products mixed to my preferred specs of flat, specifically SureCoat paint. It took me several pints and about a dozen mixes to finally get the color where I wanted it..alot of fun to see the final product out that's for sure
B
Took a break to eat some lunch...here's a couple cool pictures:
Panels Drying - you really should use a heat gun first to gradually dry them out, it takes me a bout 15 minutes per panel on 800 deg. Move around alot to avoid heating the paint up too much - it will bubble, learned that much already! I also suggest putting in a portable heater too as I did in the drying room, it will help the paint bake into the plastic a little more.
Couple panel shots:
Paint booth is an absolute mess now, BUT free of dust and paint in the air, which is the key so you don't cross contaminate any plastic with the previous spray:
B
Panels Drying - you really should use a heat gun first to gradually dry them out, it takes me a bout 15 minutes per panel on 800 deg. Move around alot to avoid heating the paint up too much - it will bubble, learned that much already! I also suggest putting in a portable heater too as I did in the drying room, it will help the paint bake into the plastic a little more.
Couple panel shots:
Paint booth is an absolute mess now, BUT free of dust and paint in the air, which is the key so you don't cross contaminate any plastic with the previous spray:
B
yukonjacks
A Vegitative State
My summer project, gunna hurt the pocket book but man I can't wait. I'm going to completely pull the interior and do all the plastic prep myself to save on some of the $. Edit: I decided to paint it myself so I picked up a large air compressor and some paint guns.
I'm not dreading the interior removal, the install or the prep work....I'm dreading buying the new visors, seatbelts and a couple other parts that you simply cannot avoid replacing if you are going to do what I'm planning. I actually bought this white Tahoe with this interior mod in mind. So with that, I present my biggest project on this hoe!
-Black Molded Full Carpet (Ultra-Plush pile)
-Black Mats (Lloyds plush)
-Black stitched headliner
-Black Leather seats w/Pearl White inserts from Katzkin (gathered, full leather option w/ "BOSS" stitched in front seat leanback)
-Black Perforated vinyl inserts (gathered) on small door panels front/rear
-Pearl White leather steering wheel wrap
-Painting Entire interior semi-matte black
(I'm kinda "branding" the word "BOSS" like it's an after-market custom name
I still haven't figured out this part yet, but I want to cut out the word TAHOE in the door sills. Then maybe install a white piece of plastic film under and over the letters with LED bulb underneath. Any ideas, like where to buy a solid door sill that fits the Gen2 Tahoe that isn't ribbed would be appreciated!
BOSS
How about using plexiglass, not sure what thickness but scuff it up and it will take on the color of the bulb, they did something similar on unique whips
I actually found the kick plates with LED options since I posted this last year on carid.com man 
B
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