Anyone modified a dash before?
Im looking to possibly cut a chunk out and mould in a iphone docking station
The flock the whole thing
Are they pretty easy to modify?
all depends on skill neil ive added a pod to mine but that just fibreglass
If you are handy with fibreglass and filler its not to complicated to do.
dunno about modifying it. But chrisJDM on here (and his missus i think) did the one on my car. I think it was the first one they\'d done and it was a very good job imo
edit: dash flocking that is
Any pics folks?
yup in banzai lol
Quote from: dthebuk;683241dunno about modifying it. But chrisJDM on here (and his missus i think) did the one on my car. I think it was the first one they\'d done and it was a very good job imo
edit: dash flocking that is
Did they have the proper equpiment or did they do a DIY job?
Can do DIY for about £30 or get it done professionally for £120
well i think its part of a business. TBH you\'d have to ask them
Quote from: dthebuk;683284well i think its part of a business. TBH you\'d have to ask them
they stopped doing the flocking now. not too sure what equip they used but know they used a compressor lol
i got my dash and centre console flocked by them also, fireman red :p
any pics of it?
not on hand, will have to wait til i next go home. its not teh whole dash, just the instrment cluster surround bit.
its 2mm flock, but imo 1mm looks better
hi mate are you still interested in the dash i have, i can do it for you for £35 delivered if your interested.
Possibly mate, dont know whether to buy yours and do it, just incase i .... it up, or take mine out and do it, .... it up and then buy yours as a replacement, lol
Ive ordered a carbon centre console from usa, so gonna do that, but quite fancy linking my iphone with the cd player, so cut a chunk out and add a dock, then flock the whole dash black, or black and red, or the dash black and the bits between the front seats red
Alo looking to take out all the inside of the car, carpets etc, but then mount 2 subs in the holes that are left where the rear seats go
Just so many ideas, lol
all sounds good mate, let me know soonish anyway as i think will be clearing the garage out pretty soon.
Quote from: NeilSR;683315Possibly mate, dont know whether to buy yours and do it, just incase i .... it up, or take mine out and do it, .... it up and then buy yours as a replacement, lol
Ive ordered a carbon centre console from usa, so gonna do that, but quite fancy linking my iphone with the cd player, so cut a chunk out and add a dock, then flock the whole dash black, or black and red, or the dash black and the bits between the front seats red
Alo looking to take out all the inside of the car, carpets etc, but then mount 2 subs in the holes that are left where the rear seats go
Just so many ideas, lol
as far as the docking station goes.. id say get the spare.. play about.. see what you can come up with. thats what i did when doing the carbon bits. and now wiht the new custom bits im doing.
I see you said your getting the carbon bits from the states like i did. They are sweet quality so im sure your gonna be happy. Make sure you offer the console up first and look into how to mount it. i used pretty obvious clips as i wanted it to be quick-release.. but im sure theres a way to get it done tideier for your show look. :yes Did you order any other bits?
Flocking wise.. im probably giving my dash to a local company to do once all my wirings been relocated. Im nearly finished with all the new wiring and quick-release system.. so once thats done i just need to order an aftermarket fuel gauge & speedo. (no idea where to start looking for those)
heres mine, couldnt be bothered to hunt the centre console bit to take a pic but heres the bit i had kicking around.
sorry bout the poor pic, dam camera phone. its quite red and bit tinsel-ey in the light.
(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4034/4495328948_f49e208623.jpg)
hey sorry managed to somehow miss this thread, me the the now ex started up a business doing flocking and managed to start donig quite well, flocked the dash in the norris designs green evo and also a few other high spec track cars, unfortunatly we split up and i was unable to carry it on as i work full time and the ex couldnt be bothered anymore, we sold the equipment to a company called FCM Motorsport in Bristol.
As we were not doing it as a one off we purchased the professional equipment which all together cost around £1000, and it does not require a compressor. There are ways of doing it without the equipment but to get the proper finish you have to use the correct equipment for the job, it works using electrostatic. You paint the epoxy glue onto the dash then put nylon fibres into the device and it electrostaticly (if thats a word lol) charges the fibres and sends them head on into the glue, giving the desired effect.
any questions let me know, or if you would like the number for FCM Motorsport to get a quote :Thumbsup!
hi chris me and my friend had you do our dashes (200sx and fd we came down in the 205)
However i do believe you possibly didn\'t clean the dashes properly or didnt use the correct adhesive as a couple of bits came off and generally didn\'t look that great.
There is a guy on the sxoc (i will try look it up) who flocks things and can do it to such a high standard that his wheels are done and they can withstand jet washing i would say that he is your man and the one to go for if you want anything flocking.
o right sorry to hear this, the adhesive we use is from a supplier of flocking materials and is designed specifically for flocking so it was definetly the correct stuff. As for cleaning the dash\'s we always spent ages cleaning them, the problem usually comes when someone has used alot of black to black or something similar on there dashboards as it is very hard to remove these products if they have been used alot over a long period of time, if you go to any flocking company they will warn you that there may be problems getting the adhesive to take to the dash properly if those types of products have been used.