Interior swap

[el5y]

alright so I've been scrounging around for a while looking for interior parts and I'm still looking around but I got atleast 50% of my interior swap completed today after 8 hours of intense pushing and pulling (damn dash) not to mention I did this by myself. but pictures will be up later, on that note anyone need and brown interior parts? or know where I can find black s13 mats?

Eric

PS: I say atleast 50% because I haven't touched the rear passenger area yet nor the trunk space. but the dash, and carpeting seemed like the hardest parts to do so I did those today.

[el5y]

heres a link to a site I made with some before pictures and after:

http://www.people.virginia.edu....html

Eric

PS: 56k Beware

[BoyWonder]

Interesting contrast between the black and brown.. I kinda like it. And yeah, getting the carpet out ain't the most pleasent task.

Active speakers eh? First time I've seen a model with em.

[[Zero-S]]

I'm surprised the vert didn't come with them.

Car is looking good btw el5y.

[Checkered-Member]

for mats...try the dealer

[el5y]

for the mats I'd prefer not to go through the dealer....expensive there and all, as for the speakers, I thought all 91+ had active speakers...maybe just the ones I looked at...I just need to get the rest of the pieces and the swap will be pretty much complete, not sure if I want to replace the seats though because I will be reupholstering them anyways, any thoughts?

Eric

[[Zero-S]]

SE's had active speakers, and even then it was a select few.

[el5y]

Alright now that I've been driving around for a while with the half interior swap its time for the next step, I think I'm going to just keep the tweed in there for a while, but inorder to make the black/tweed match I need to change the door panel inserts, anyone know how to do this? thanks

Eric

[BoyWonder]

The inserts are attached to the door panels via little metal pin-like things which are very short. If you pry gently around the edge, it should come off.. just be careful. May have to glue it to reattach. Mine was treated a little rough by the previous owner, and is falling off, so that's how I know. I'm planning on trying to glue it back on, as it doesn't seem to want to attach back on the pins.

[rebelgtp]

my 91 SE has active speakers but they are blown oh well guess i'll just ahve to get new speakers sometime soon.

[Hijacker]

I'm surprised the vert didn't come with them.

The verts didn't come with a lot of things that SE's normally came with. We didn't get AC. We didn't get ABS (although we got the slightly larger ABS calipers). We didn't get active speakers, nor the factory amp. But we did get the beefed up sports package suspension. and for some reason the passenger door didn't get the Oh Sh1t handle next to the instrument bezel.

[el5y]

ohhh, the verts didn't have the passenger side handle? damn I should have gotten one of those door panels then.

Eric

[Hijacker]

vert doors aren't easy to come by, nor are they cheap...

[el5y]

I know, but it would have saved me the trouble of trying to figure out how to "paint" or stain my brown handle to black so I could use it in my new black interior. plus, you just can't beat $26 for both door panels, even if they weren't vert panels

Eric

[deCksy]

nice swap! i did the same thing... ugly ol' brown! i'm just not liking our 89-90 door panels, the fabric is ugly. other than that its nice! i still need to do my carpets

[Dattebayo]

I have the active speaker system stock and all they do is get in the way of my sound system. I dont think they are that great. Just some kind of frelled crossover for the upper mids and high ranges.

[el5y]

finally got the rest of my interior pieces thanks nismo4u2nv, excellent quality, I'll be doing the swap on sunday I hope, probably start taking the pieces off soon so it doesn't take as long

Eric

[Jookmasta]

hey i could use ur brown dash. any chance u might want to sell me for cheap? also could use ur brown mats. seems like i will b sticking with my brown interior for a [email protected]

[el5y]

the problem with selling it for cheap is that shipping will almost definately be atleast 100 bucks...so I couldn't possibly sell it for less than 175

Eric

[TrunkMonkey]

We didn't get AC.

ebony has AC.

-demetrius

[Altiman94]

my buddies 89 coupe had active speakers. Also, I would get rid of those seats..

[ramrat]

mine has ac as well

[el5y]

interior swap is complete, pictures will be up later

Eric

[el5y]

pictures of the swap from before as well a some shots of my car and pictures of the swap after

http://www.people.virginia.edu/~el5y/SWAP/

Eric