Does any one have a picture of a door panel and the piece to the rear of it, (the piece that is clipped to the dog leg?) Ideally I would like to dee the two together without a seat in the car, but I'll take what I can get.

I'm going to repaint the panels 2 tone and I need to figure out where the boundaries should be for each color.

Also, any new ideas for the chrome strips in the door panels? One of the posts I read said to use a 3/8" adhesive strip from an auto parts store. I was only able to locate 1/4 ", which is not wide enough.

Thanks.

Edited January 22, 201213 yr by tlorber

Which car/year?

For the chrome strip, try a hobby store for Monokote adhesive trim in chrome silver.

Pic isn't exactl what you want, but might help. Bottom-line, the chrome strips line-up if everything is properly assembled.

Oiluj, Nice seats. Where did you get the seat covers?

I basically copied interior I did years ago in my previous Z.

Seats are custom. Vinyl side panels with upholstery cloth center inserts. The center fabric is a dark grey/light tweed. I "think" name of the fabric was "Opal". I can look it up in my records if you like.

Carpet is a charcoal loop I got from from Home Depot. Used old carpet as patterns and finished with sewn vinyl edging.

Thanks for the replies, guys. I will be doing a pattern similar to Julios but with a burgundy vinyl in the insets. Eventually I will install 300 ZX seats once they are painted 2 tone to match.

I thought I'd post a follow up here. On a test panel, I tried 2 different silver rattle cans that I had at the shop. I also bought some chrome adhesive pinstriping, since I couldn't find any mylar at the hobby shop, and finally I bought some Duplicolor Instant Chrome.

The pinstriping was definitely the most chrome looking, but I couldn't get it to stick to the tight curve of the plastic bead, so I ended up using the Duplicolor. While it is by no means mistakeable for chrome (i.e you will not be spraying it on a flat surface and then using it for shaving in the morning) it has a much higher reflectivity than either of the silver paints. I would say it has 70%-80% of the reflection/brilliance of chrome.

The final door panel is shown below. Hope this helps someone else down the road.

I found some silver/aluminum duct sealing tape at Ace, applied and cut to size with an exacto knife.

Definitely not chrome, more of a polished aluminum look but it is consistent and doesn't look toooo shabby. Better than the chrome with blue gaps. So far has worn well, and the roll was about $5 with plenty left over in case a redo is necessary in the future.

I forgot to mention that I tried tape as well on the test panel. The problem I had with my tape is that the aluminum was so soft that when it got scraped (by fingernail) it left marks.

Edited February 16, 201213 yr by tlorber

Just thought I'd punctuate this thread with some final pics, (not meaning to respond to my own thread but I know we all love pictures;)

Looking nice. Can't wait to see the finished product!

Thats uber cool, never thought that red would look that good on Z! I love your carpets too...