Custom interior conversion

Well, the dash I went to look at didn't pass muster. For now at least. May give it a second chance. But the rest of the plastics went over well. I got my full black glove box and my rear top trays black now, as well as the aft vents.

Had a really fun (that's sarcastic BTW ) time pulling apart my interior again. Litterally had to pull every single panel aft of the forward kick panels in order to remove those side trays behind the roll bars. WOW is that tough. Spend all day on it, and then put it all back together all by myself.

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Then just before I reinstalled the seats, I found out that the passenger side seatbelt was twisted around the roll bar. :banghead: And I had to take it ALL APART AGAIN in order to fix it. :banghead:

But I guess the experience paid off. With the "training" I got when I first took it apart, and the second time doing it alone, I was able to get the required panels off, problem fixed, and reassembled within two hours.

And my material samples came in. So now all I need is a black dash and some black '02-'03 door panels.

I already have black DPs, but I don't have the tweeters in the black ones. So I need an upgrade.

As a supplementary item, I am also seriously considering getting a custom LED gauge cluster lighting kit. Qube Engineering makes em, and they're pretty cool. Color combos made to order.
Qube Engineering - Qube's LED Dash for the Honda S2000 AP1

Even though I'm trying to de-smurf the car, I'll probably go with a pail blue gauge color (like an Ice blue) to go with a black/blue theme in the car that will eventually be the end result.

That does look pretty awesome. I had a similar idea in mind (with blue accent stitching), however I thought the cost was too high to get it wrapped in real leather. I really really wish you had posted a link with those pics. I can't find the dash on GoTuning's website. I know some S2Ki people locally who have bought stuff from that place and have been very happy with the craftsmanship/quality.

While I like Alcantara, which is what I think that dash is wrapped in, I think that is too . . . . ,well, "pimped" for my taste. A true leather dash with accent stitching along the dash's character lines is what I had in mind, and then to carry on the accent stitching on the upper door panels. After rethinking the costs, I felt it would look only a little less cool and a whole lot cheaper if I just went with OEM replacement parts. But considering how I can't seem to find a dash in good enough shape (let alone other interior parts impeccably near perfect condition) I may go that route anyway. But before I drop several more thousands into the interior, I want my coilovers done. So the dash may not come until next year.

. . . I don't know. . . . we'll see what happens.

And if you have the link to that dash on Go Tuning's site, that'd be great!