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Old Jun 15, 2006 | 02:09 PM
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Well I'm having an impossible time trying to find black carbon fiber or black/red carbon kevlar so I am thinking about going with aluminzed fiberglass to wrap my interior pieces (window switches, radio bazel, door handle cover thigns, top part of center console where ash tray and cupholder are). My newly re-uphosltered seats are black with red stitching and red suede inserts. Carpet and interior panels/dash are being converted to ebony, door inserts will be red leather ( haven't decided on peforated or smooth yet). I would have loved the look of the black or the black/red kevlar **** but . I think the silver would be a good offset of the red and black, maybe do the outer edges of the air vents too. What would you suggest? Would this look good? Or what else would you recomend? Shift boot is black with red stitching and piping!
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Old Jun 15, 2006 | 02:23 PM
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and sorry for no pics interior is in pieces!

this is the stuff i'm tlaking about http://www.fibreglast.com/showproduc...glass-132.html

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Old Jun 15, 2006 | 02:46 PM
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go to may cardomain page and ive got aluminum on my interior and i think it looks very unique
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Old Jun 15, 2006 | 03:18 PM
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would go look but no linky
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Old Jun 15, 2006 | 10:59 PM
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anyone? i mean some of you ******* must have an opinion on what I should do!
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Old Jun 15, 2006 | 11:16 PM
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If you have a charchol or black interior just leave it alone, it looks good as is. If you wanna do some emblems, or some billt that looks good too. Maybe some white guages and an nice shift ****. If you have the $$ do the headrests too. The whole spray painted interior is kinda trashy. BTW your car looks great.
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Old Jun 16, 2006 | 01:00 AM
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mmm, Id go with black for those, carbon fiber will make it a bit 'busy' in there.
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Old Jun 16, 2006 | 01:08 AM
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You must not be looking hard enough because a 30 sec Ebay search yielded this:

Red Carbon/Kevlar:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/CARBO...spagenameZWDVW

Expensive but it is available.

There are also people selling the regular black fabric too.
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Old Jun 16, 2006 | 01:10 AM
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Also, I'm going to tell you from experience, that aluminized fiberglass is hard as **** to work with. It is very stiff and does not like to conform to curves the way 2X2 twill carbon will. Your going to have to vacuum bag it to get decent results. Same with the kevlar hybrids. They are very stiff too since they have kevlar in them.
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Originally Posted by Sprayed1998
If you have a charchol or black interior just leave it alone, it looks good as is. If you wanna do some emblems, or some billt that looks good too. Maybe some white guages and an nice shift ****. If you have the $$ do the headrests too. The whole spray painted interior is kinda trashy. BTW your car looks great.
thanks man, but I hate white gauges and the graphite interior. You really should see some of the stuff I've dyed/painted, it looks strait from the factory. And my seats are already in the re-upholstery shop. Black leather, red stitching, red suede inserts. I've already got ebony carpet (i just need to cut the wholes in it), and now the only things I need are a new steering wheel, a shift boot clip, an ebony dash and the long front dash part that always cracks. I am not going to paint the dash just because it is such a big piece and it is a soft plastic. As for the 20x50 inch sheet for $100 on e-bay screw that! I'll wait until I can by a 3 yard by 50'' for that same price from a composites place.
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Old Jun 16, 2006 | 07:56 AM
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oh and I would take that carbon fiber or aluminzed fiberglass strait to my father. He has been doing paint and body work for over 30 years and he a fiberglass specialists so I'm sure it wouldn't be to big of a hassle for him!
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Old Jun 16, 2006 | 09:49 AM
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Do not do the red kevlar. Red will turn out lookin much darker once resin has been applied. PM and I can send you a picture of my red kevlar power window controlls. I also have some carbon fiber laying around if your interested let me know how much you want and I can give you a price.
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