Grey to Black Interior w/ Recaro (PICS/GALLERY) - Honda Prelude Forum

animeking · 03-27-2003, 09:13 AM

Hey guys,

Finally got my seat brackets and gutted my Prelude. I took picks along the way.

I finished my install. Here's the list:
Forbidden Short Shifter
Civic Type-R Shift Boot
Civic Type-R Shift Knob
OEM black honda carpet
OEM black honda rear armwrest pieces
Mantaray Motorsports 4G Prelude Recaro Brackets
Black Recaro SRD Seats with Red stitching
Tekniq Autosport Enduro Race Mats

I think that's it. I still have yet to refinish my back seats and cloth panels and door panels (they're in the mail I hope).

Here's a link to my photo gallery and 2 selected pictures from it:

http://homepage.mac.com/animeking/PhotoAlbum6.html

MidNKight-lude · 03-27-2003, 09:24 AM

looks nice. right now i have diamnod plate for floor, mats, what about the rear, what are back ther? black seats?

red92s · 03-27-2003, 09:44 AM

doors in the mail. . . . you get the last round of pics I sent?
OEM panels, lowers re-wrapped in black carpet, grills re-wrapped in black grill cloth. Nothing too fancy, just clean and simple.

Machine Head · 03-27-2003, 09:55 AM

boy do I have questions for you
1. did you buy the carpet from the dealer? if so how much?
2. where did you get your Recaro brackets ? I need a pair for my recaro SRD's bad and I don't want to pay the $250 from Recaro directley

animeking · 03-27-2003, 11:39 AM

Machine Head,

1. Yes, I bought it online from http://hondaautomotiveparts.com (with some other black for grey swaps). They list it at $452.15. If you look at my pics, I think it's well worth it. The OEM carpet took about a min to rip out (after everything removed of course) and about 30 min to lay in and get in position.

2. I bought my brackets from Mantaray Motorsports, http://www.mmrusa.com/seatbrackets.htm - they were $130 for the set and are actually pretty good quality. The only downside was they were not wrapped, just thrown in a box with styrafoam peanuts and they had to be blasted with air to get all of them off.

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I don't have anything in the back right now except the black armrest. I took the cusions and the door inserts to a upholstery shop to get them all done in the same black fabric. I was going to do red for the inserts but I decided after the seats and carpet were in, I like the more subdued look.

Red92s,
Yes, i did get the last round of pictures, thanks for posting them in this thread so people can see that part of my car too.

I'll probably have a bunch of questions for you when I get them. -- My auto down on the driver window doesn't work but the window does go down holding the button down, any ideas?

Thanks guys!

irishpilot · 03-27-2003, 11:54 AM

Holy crap that looks good, nice job!!!

ECHprelude · 03-27-2003, 01:19 PM

i can get you a set of black stock rear seats if you want from the junkyard. good condition. i also have a black armrest thing. i notice you didnt have one. pm me and let me know.
i am doing the same thing with my car. i had the ugly gray interior also. i was hoping not to have to spend the $500 on new carpet. guess i will. your shiot looks hot man. love those seats, whered you get em?

red92s · 03-27-2003, 01:46 PM

Looks so nice, I decided to post them in a larger format for 'ya. I think the shift knob and boot look really sweet. I dropped off the panels at UPS today, but I'm unsure if they will make it out this evening or get stuck on the truck tomorrow. Lets just say the box is rather large. They should be ready to install once you put the cloth inserts in them and vaccum all the peanut-dust off.

MR.CLIFFORD · 03-27-2003, 02:01 PM

WOW. Amazing work. Looks very good.

Did the carpet on the doors by the speaker gaurds have glue on the back? If so, did you strip it with anything? My carpet is grey and I think I might do something similar to what you just did.

All in all.... it looks great.

Andy

red92s · 03-27-2003, 02:20 PM

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Originally posted by MR.CLIFFORD
WOW. Amazing work. Looks very good.

Did the carpet on the doors by the speaker gaurds have glue on the back? If so, did you strip it with anything? My carpet is grey and I think I might do something similar to what you just did.

All in all.... it looks great.

Andy

The OEM carpet is glued to the lower portion of the door panels. It is fairly easy to remove the carpet once the lower part of the door panel has been removed, you can just pull it off. I lightly sanded to panels to remove old glue, and used 3M super-tack spray adhesive to adhere the new carpet. The grills were pretty much the same procedure. If you are going to do this, make sure to get UNBACKED carpet. The black carpet that automotive stores sells has a backing which makes it harder to conform to curves and contours. Unbacked carpet (sometimes called trunkliner) is the type used on speaker enclosures and is available in a rainbow of colors from www.partsexpress.com . -Tim

MR.CLIFFORD · 03-27-2003, 03:21 PM

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Originally posted by red92s

The OEM carpet is glued to the lower portion of the door panels. It is fairly easy to remove the carpet once the lower part of the door panel has been removed, you can just pull it off. I lightly sanded to panels to remove old glue, and used 3M super-tack spray adhesive to adhere the new carpet. The grills were pretty much the same procedure. If you are going to do this, make sure to get UNBACKED carpet. The black carpet that automotive stores sells has a backing which makes it harder to conform to curves and contours. Unbacked carpet (sometimes called trunkliner) is the type used on speaker enclosures and is available in a rainbow of colors from www.partsexpress.com . -Tim

Thanks Tim. I covered my tweeters and plan to use the same to match the component covers. I think I might do that this weekend.

ECHprelude · 03-27-2003, 03:39 PM

i like my s model door panels with no carpet. looks good with my new leather inserts.
again, whered you get those seats? i want some!

Imported204 · 03-27-2003, 05:06 PM

wow, your interior is looking real nice!

Red4WS · 03-27-2003, 05:16 PM

Just wondering but a while ago someone posted on changing their blue interior to black with a dye...Do you think you would have gotten the same results by dying the carpets?

red92s · 03-27-2003, 05:33 PM

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Originally posted by Red4WS
Just wondering but a while ago someone posted on changing their blue interior to black with a dye...Do you think you would have gotten the same results by dying the carpets?

I'd say that's doubtful:

OSOFAST10 · 03-27-2003, 06:10 PM

HOW DID YOU GET THE CTR SHIFT BOOT TO WORK? I HAVE ONE AND I CAN'T GET IT TO FIT AT ALL. I HAVE TRIED AND EVEN USED ZIP-TIES BUT NO LUCK.

vipastyle · 03-27-2003, 07:35 PM

wow, thats looks very nice man.

animeking · 03-27-2003, 11:01 PM

Thanks again for the compliments.

I got the seats from Options Auto Salon (or might be Autosalon). I don't remember the URL.

The sad thing is the Recarro US headquarters is 1 hr away from me and I had to pay for shipping from California.

I got the shift boot to work by carefully removing it from the metal frame and then wedging it between the two pieces that make up the frame on the stock boot. Then I used a 2x4 to set the rim on and used a staple gun to shoot staples into the edges (oh yeah, you have to take out the old staples before you have two pieces from the old boot) and then bend over the staple ends with a pair of plyers. It would probably be easier with an upholstry stapler or something like that.

There are two screws on the underside of the center console that hold the stock boot frame in place. Just slide it back and it's out.

animeking · 04-22-2003, 06:38 PM

Got the back seats and door inserts done!

Here's a new gallery link:

http://homepage.mac.com/animeking/PhotoAlbum8.html

And here are three small pics:

That's it. I decided on a new steering wheel too! Just haven't gotten it yet.

Momo Club 4.

MR.CLIFFORD · 04-22-2003, 06:43 PM

I can't get that link to work

And I really wanna see