93-96 to 97+ Dash Conversion Project Thread

[FireBirdGirl02]

I would love to see how get this project all done and see brian driving the camaro. I am proud of him for doing all this work.

[TSTONE]

coming along nicely - gotta be done in time for the M&G!!!

[JAdair]

Hmm very nice man

[meissen]

I'm thinking about offering it for sale (for cheap) but we'll see. Part of the dash was ... cut off so only parts will be for sale, not the whole thing. The main problem with it is that it's painted, so it won't be that much.

[BP_Z28]

oh ok gotcha

what did you do with your old dash

[meissen]

I wiped it down with a rag, then used adhesion promoter on it. It seems to have worked quite well, but I don't know if it really did anything. I painted the rest of the pieces with just the paint, no promoter. But yeah, no sanding or anything. I wanted it to look semi-stock.

[BP_Z28]

nice..you just painted? no sanding or nothing?

Those are plastic pieces right? I used Autopaint in my interior..stuck to the plastic perfectly fine..but I still have crap load of work to be done..thinking about just buying another dash set

but looks good B!

[meissen]

I'm really happy with the results of the black paint so far. I sprayed it on in light coats so it didn't just crap it all up. Plus I used vinyl/fabric paint so it should have more flex in it than regular paint. I also figured out how Kyle lowered his steering column, so now when I go to install it I can put the steering column on the driver's seat.

The dash is all finished painting, so next weekend I'll be lengthening the harness 6 inches and then I'll be installing the dash right after more than likely.

[SoulTerror]

Keep up the good work man.

[s.reef]

Looks good!

[meissen]

It wasn't sorting the technical threads correctly so it wasn't popping up to the top. Bumpin this up again. I'm really happy with the results so far... the paint was done in really light coats so the vents and everything aren't stuck into place like the previous job.

[MP81]

Looks good!

[meissen]

I decided that the color of the dash was too "charcoal" for the rest of my interior so I decided to paint it. I'm trying to make it look somewhat stock-ish. I bought gloss black instead of flat, though, because I thought flat would stick out more.

[Phantom409]

i've been wondering how hard it is to convert to newer dash and al what you have to do... cause i was considering doing it sometime... down the road. as far as taking all the old out and putting in new.. does it line up the same? is there any hard modification you have to do?

When I replaced mine I had no problems, everything was good.

No wif you want to do what Brian did the you woulld have a work out.

[BP_Z28]

we want more pics B

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