Interior beautification opinions needed.
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Interior beautification opinions needed.
My car is a daily driver and some time track car. I'm not interested in putting 20K miles a year on a car with a stripped interior. Sorry but adding lightness is out for me.
I've been seeing at CR and Mnet some nice looking interior leather stuff from Redlinegoods. Leather wraps for the gauge pod, center console, etc. What do people think of the look of this stuff? Classy, goofy, etc. I'm thinking it might be nice to have a little more luxurious interior with all the time and miles I put on the car.
I have a 94 black and tan. I'm thinking black leather with tan stitching on the gauge hood, radio surround and console. Black perforated leather for the shift and ebrake boots.
Ghey or suhweeet! Too much or just right?
I've been seeing at CR and Mnet some nice looking interior leather stuff from Redlinegoods. Leather wraps for the gauge pod, center console, etc. What do people think of the look of this stuff? Classy, goofy, etc. I'm thinking it might be nice to have a little more luxurious interior with all the time and miles I put on the car.
I have a 94 black and tan. I'm thinking black leather with tan stitching on the gauge hood, radio surround and console. Black perforated leather for the shift and ebrake boots.
Ghey or suhweeet! Too much or just right?
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I think the black and tan stitching looks a little like doo doo. If the stitching matched the curves and were done straight it wouldn't be as bad, but like that it looks very home made and weird to me. I think nice comes with tasteful restraint and subtle mods. I kind of was on the right start with mine but got side tracked and lost my way and it kind of didn't turn out like I had planned it. When its actually clean I think it still looks better than most. Everything stock except leather seats and door panels. I wanted a shorty center console but my hack job and poor fiberglass and paint skills ruined it.
Only semi clean pictures I have are during the build, which sadly was more than a year ago. It's clear I use my $1000 camera often lol. Small shitty pictures, sorry.
I also at one point had planned to leave the center console completely off and cover the tunnel with diamond stitched leather and leave the round rubber shift boot sticking out and do some kind of custom surround to make it look finished, then polish the shift lever. Would have looked good but I never got around to it.
I also agree with the NB interior. Much cleaner looking and to me needs no modification to look good.
Only semi clean pictures I have are during the build, which sadly was more than a year ago. It's clear I use my $1000 camera often lol. Small shitty pictures, sorry.
I also at one point had planned to leave the center console completely off and cover the tunnel with diamond stitched leather and leave the round rubber shift boot sticking out and do some kind of custom surround to make it look finished, then polish the shift lever. Would have looked good but I never got around to it.
I also agree with the NB interior. Much cleaner looking and to me needs no modification to look good.
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I was in fear of flaming myself when I posted for opinions!
As far as cost goes for the leather gauge hood cover, radio surround, center console, shift and ebrake boot it's a total of $240. From that you can pick from about 15 leathers and 15-20 different matching or contrasting color stitching. That seems fairly reasonable to me. You can also do two toned, striped or other patterns but that's not my style.
Here's a couple other pics of thier stuff.
For NA6c here is a guy at CR that did the Diamond pattern over the center tunnel but used redlines stuff in addition to it.
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I actually think that's pretty slick lookin'.
Certainly better than any of our faded flat black plastic, or the three tones of tan my car used to have.
Would be a good way to get away with a wooden wheel. Either wood or something with brushed aluminum spokes to continue the upscale look.
I feel like I've seen something similar in a recent supercar, probably the Carrera GT. I know Porsche is big on wrapping EVERYTHING in leather on the more high end cars.
Certainly better than any of our faded flat black plastic, or the three tones of tan my car used to have.
Would be a good way to get away with a wooden wheel. Either wood or something with brushed aluminum spokes to continue the upscale look.
I feel like I've seen something similar in a recent supercar, probably the Carrera GT. I know Porsche is big on wrapping EVERYTHING in leather on the more high end cars.
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That redline stuff just looks out of place in a Miata to me. If the panels are faded, just repaint them to match. To me stock panels look better than anything else I have seen. I regret chopping mine up, but I only did that because the center was cracked. I have tried on many cars, but somehow to me stock always ends up being the best looking. Only thing in the Miata I prefer over stock is leather seats, or replaced seats with after market seats. Something about stock cloth I just hate, in the NA anyway. I like the NB seats in leather the best of all factory seats.
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Nice signature by the way! Pretty sure you have a post in every for sale ad on this site.
Casey, no offense but your current interior would look much better if it were cleaned. I also worry that this stuff would go to waste if you didn't keep it clean. If it were me I'd clean the current interior and buy black carpet. If however you're planning on turning a new stone and keeping your interior clean or only keep it dirty because you don't care much about it now, I think this leather stuff looks pretty good. I especially like the gauge cluster wrap. You could get away with that, but if you want to do more you need to do the center console, radio surround, and shifter boot. If you just do one or two of those it'll look incomplete. I forget, do you have a stock wheel? Replace that too with a nice momo one while you're in there.
By the way guys, this is the only person I know that leaves change in the cup holders during his track days.
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Zonda interior is Or all of the Zonda, not just the interior.