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mikeinaus wrote:

**EDIT: also, what do you do about the other stuff in the sides of the wheel well?

im not completely sure what you mean by that. if your talking about the washer fluid resevior i just left the floor panels free standing. there easy to put in and out but stay in place pretty well. my driver side well has a sub box in it... heres a pic of the dash


whered you get your seats steel? there pimpin...

yah thats what i was talkin about, just the other things that aren't in the wheel well. I like that interior aswell! I think this is a controversial subject to say the least but I think it's happening in mine!
and those seats were from another member, RS_OBD'oh_2, quite a bargain if i do say so

painting it was a huge pain in the a--. i ended up using almost 3 cans of paint and 2 different kinds of clear coat.

krylon fusion paint is made for plastic and says it wont chip. i really liked it and highly recommend it. basically sand them till there smooth put on thin coats about 15 min apart then clear coat. if you cant get the surface perfectly smooth i used a clear coat called krylon acrylic clear. dont use it as the final coat. it will make a white haze over the paint and youll have to start over (trust me). i just used it to make the surface perfectly smooth then painted on it then used a regular clear coat to finish it off.

Painting the dash is pretty simple. It's all about the prepwork. Krylon Fusion makes it so easy. I don't know why it took you 3 cans...

first can i had bubbles in the finish so i had to sand and repaint. 2nd can i got it perfect then put that acrylic clear coat on and ruined the color and i had to get a 3rd paint and do it once more.

did you shake the clear coat up first? i used to make custom game controllers. and that was a major problem in the trial and error stage and by the way nice floor had a similar idea for my infiniti but i was gonna use bamboo flooring. lol i know i was 16 at the time

That looks awesome man, I might do that with my car eventually!

I did it! I really like the new and improved look, makes it 1000x better
I'm still fiddling around with the left side (the one which you didn't have to deal with ) but it looks great.

cheers for the idea

yeah no worries man. post some pics so we can compare...

im just glad i was the first to think of it

well, one of the people to post it up anyways

I'm loving your hatch and ive been dying to clean mine up like that...question thou...where is your amp? mine is screwed to the back of the speaker box but that thing takes up so much space...

under my drivers seat... im probably gonna bolt it onto the back of the back seat in my new car somehow. my rca cables in the back of the amp get kicked whenever i have people sit in the back (very rarely) and after 8 months of being there the ends have broken off.