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heres some pics of my interior. Also did the DRL mod this weekend thanks to CJ from MO.comIll be painting the piece where the mirror adjuster is tomorrow.

Nice, are you wet sanding as well? Thats the same blue as your engine compartment color right?

looking good.

what type of paint did you use? I used duplicolors aqritic inamel i think thats how you spell it anyway it comes out shiney and it has a killer look to it. It looks good man keep it up

aqritic inamel?? huh?? you mean acrylic enamel? like what kind? when i did mine (long ago) i used krylon fusion (plastikote or something or other). it sucked. scratched super easy. ended up having a body shop do it again, with garnet mica (metallic red) and clear coat. turned out awesome and matched my red leather interior so much better!mike, are you using a clear coat with that? if not, i highly recommend it!

Looks nice... eventually I'll do something like that with my interior as well.

*it is the same as the engine parts.*its dupli-color "metal-cast" and its the high heat metallic paint. (works wonders! looks clean and shiney)I was too cheap to go buy the other "car matching blue colors" and i just clear coated it like 3 times... cam out smooth.Thanks for the comments too... its a cheap and rather easy task.

*Whew, thats a little much for my tastes but to each his own..

It actually doesnt look bad in the car.. ill put up a pic in a lil bit... but its looks good to me.But like you said.. to each his own!

yeah good point I am sure it looks better mounted

Looks good, do mine!

This is how my bros car turned out. Not bad for our first time.Sry about the picture quality on the last pic it was a loaner carmera haha

wow now that looks really cool!! SSW now im going to have to get that done to mine mike.

It looks way better on! and its a easy lil $12-15 project, primer, paint, clear coat.The last one was a nice lil lambo!

What's with that "Nissan"

and color is too weird for me. maybe just my age

So when you coming down to paint mine? How long did it take? Looks like yours came out a lot better than I could do!

I just cleaned it and primered over the pieces. 2x primer. then i coated the pieces twice with the metalcast paint. then 3 coats or so of clear... then let it set in the sun to dry and set in. i came out really smooth too! there were a few very tiny imperfections... but you cant really tell.If you send them to me i can do it! Just set aside like half a day and do it... includes drying time!

can you do mine?!?! i wanted to blacken out my inside

Looks like we need to have a socal paint party!

Looks great! To get the door panel plate did you have to remove the door panel itself?

its just clipped on... so take a flathead and slide it under and "CAREFULLY" pop it out... i only broke one clip... still works fine though. and the dash piece was a PITA to get the a/c buttons out cuz its awkward. but a piece of cake to put back in.Im happy with it overall. and if i sell my car i can always just buy some parts off ebay or a junk yard.

could you blacken out mine?

you would need to get a specific paint youd like... and then i would need some more primer. i have plenty of clear coat.So yeah i could... are you willing to ship pieces or come out here one day for about half a day?

do you know the prices?

depending on the paint... like 5.50 max.primer is like 4 bucks.... and i already have clear coat.*I cant garuntee they will come out perfect... just my lil disclaimer. mine look great from far, but i have about one or two spots on mine.

did you sand the parts before doing this?

No... i figured it was a test to see if it worked, and, well it looks good.I did have one part blotch when primering... so i had to sand the excess primer. but other than that i didnt.

well ok then im goging to see if i can find someone to help me out around my area then see what happens next

Its not hard man just experiment on beat up cars like me lol we painted the interior of a corsica that was laying around on my friends drive way. They used it like ....... well....... never hahaha it worked fine, but now it looks cool lol Its easy steps 1. take off the parts you want painted.2. wash them so that you get off the dirt and any other residue thats on it. but use soap also and make sure you dry them very well.3. you can sand it down or just go right ahead and put primer let it set for a few minutes and spray another coat.4. get paint you chose spray on evenly from side to side or from top to bottom.5. Wet sand it just a little, but evenly around the peice. You can find the light sand paper at your local hard ware store. Or Home depot haha6. respray the color of choice, repeat number 5 as many times you want. I say at least 3 times to get a good look.7. Then spray the clear coat but I didnt use clear coat on my bros car. Just go ahead and try it on an old piece of plastic hope it works out for you my bros came out awesome!! Good Luck

looks good Mrzzle.. i moight even think about dong mine... but said to my self the car colorsext - silver ( overlays & stuff)under hood - some blue, some silverint- Carbon fiberhmm i think carbon fiber is hard to paint ... lol... ill just get overlays later