Interior questions
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Interior questions
I looked and didn't know where the best place to post this would be so don't shoot me for posting it here if its wrong 
Ok after alot of debate I decided to stray away from the factory and go my own way on my '77, instead of replacing the interior with the stock orange faded red carpet and recover the red leather seats my wife and I both agree that all black interior would look ALOT better. Especially with the not so stock color red I decided to repaint it. 
My question is can some of the interior parts be dyed black and what parts? Of coarse i'm just gonna replace the carpet with new black carpet and possibly newer black leather seats but parts like the dash and so forth are in perfect shape so I'd hate to not use perfectly good parts. Either dye some peices or if anyone knows of or has any black interior pieces they have lyin around they don't need I'd be happy to make more room in your garage for you 
Ok after alot of debate I decided to stray away from the factory and go my own way on my '77, instead of replacing the interior with the stock orange faded red carpet and recover the red leather seats my wife and I both agree that all black interior would look ALOT better. Especially with the not so stock color red I decided to repaint it. My question is can some of the interior parts be dyed black and what parts? Of coarse i'm just gonna replace the carpet with new black carpet and possibly newer black leather seats but parts like the dash and so forth are in perfect shape so I'd hate to not use perfectly good parts. Either dye some peices or if anyone knows of or has any black interior pieces they have lyin around they don't need I'd be happy to make more room in your garage for you
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Parts preparation is the key. Anything to be dyed must be super squeaky clean.
Check with automotive paint suppliers for the SEM.
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Almost everything can be dyed, especially if you are going to black. SEM automotive interior dye will cover hard plastic, metal, leather, and vinyl.
Parts preparation is the key. Anything to be dyed must be super squeaky clean.
Check with automotive paint suppliers for the SEM.
Parts preparation is the key. Anything to be dyed must be super squeaky clean.
Check with automotive paint suppliers for the SEM.
there are many different quality interior dye products. cleanliness prep is definitely the key!
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Got it in the home stretch now. Tryin to decide on what to do with the seats. Gonna replace them eventually with newer corvette seats but for now I got to do something with them and going to finish column and wheel probably friday but lookin better so far
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