Will do, might be a little while though, at $17 a can, and i need roughly 4 cans a coat, and im doing two coats to get a great colour.... :S
Plus have my 18th coming up soon hehe, we all know how money is spent then
Not putting miles on your built cars is like not having sex with your girlfriend so she'll be more desirable to her next boyfriend.
(my eg came with dirty stanky ass carpet, that had patches of gummy crap, clumpiness, holes and stains on it. for the last month or so of owning, i've been running it totally stripped due to its stankiness. so thought there wasn't much to lose in dying it black.)
this is what i used, 16.99/can @ autobarn, at first i thought it would be a paint given the extensive VHT paint range and the fact that the instructions on the can were identical/similar to those of their paints (lol copy and paste job)... but as the can says its a dye and sprays on thinly, much like the consistency of water/dye
this is about 3/4 of a can. as the instructions say, after spraying, i got a brush and ran it thru the fibres, then sprayed in the perpendicular direction
ended up using 3x cans, if i had better quality carpet i woulda ideally used 4-5 cans to give it more depth... concentrated more on the visible areas rather than under the seats
layed in the car... the blue showing thru is a tarp layer i put underneath coz some of the tougher/plastic-vinyl layer under the carpet had worn thru in spots and the carpet fibres were exposed in some places
put back some interior trim... haven't run with these since the 2nd day i got the car. i would've liked to have done a few more coats, but in RL the lighter areas aren't as obvious as in the photos.
wow i actually have an interior now, and it feels quite comfortable
overall, very happy with the results
have more shots at other angles, lemme know if anyone needs any
Last edited by dancoco808; 14-05-2010 at 08:17 AM.
Looks awesome good work! Hey if you wet it does it run at all? Try wetting a small patch and running some white paper across it - does it all stay or does it come out?
Also man, how did you clean the carpet first? I'm gonna be cleaning up the Integra I just bought last weekend this weekend! Might do this if I have time. Huge clean up project for me =] (the whole exterior is kinda banged up so I gotta get a whole respray but in the meantime I'm going to get the inside cleaned up).
Not the same thing, but I resprayed my old EG's dash before lol... I used vinyl spray and made the dash + door trims black. Now the door trims I took out, but with the dash I just masked off everything really well and sprayed it. Just spent half my life masking stuff though LOL
I think you should at least take out the lower trims that cover bits of your carpet as a minimum. Shouldn't take you long to mask everything in this case though so yeh... Taking the carpet out doesn't take very long though...
Looks awesome good work! Hey if you wet it does it run at all? Try wetting a small patch and running some white paper across it - does it all stay or does it come out?
Yeh I want that answer too =] I bought the dye and everything and took the seats out then it started pissing rain =( bad idea lol. I put the driver seat back in - Will do this on the weekend instead.
FYI - I bought the dye from Lincraft. They have two types, one is where you chuck it into your washing machine and let it run, the other you apply. I bought the one you apply. It's about $8 a box of approx. 300g. I bought two just in case.
I also did alot of research about dying the carpet red - If you're using dye like mine it's not going to work unless you are able to make the carpet white first. But those spray can ones work the same as a can of paint - It will go over the top but I have no idea if it'll run. Good luck guys
Reply With Quote
Originally Posted by androo
Bookmarks