I've had my 02 'vert for almost 3 years now. I thought I would be happy just to finally own one. Wrong. Within a few weeks I started the mods. I guess technically it started 5 days after we got her home when she winked at me. So I rebuilt both headlight motors with brass gears. Then painted the hood liner with fabric pens. I have a pic but can't access it right now- will post later because I'd like some opinions on it.

So I did a vararam and slp catback. Easy, fun nice to have a bit more power. But I want to overcome the shortfalls of the car and make it more enjoyable. So at Carlisle 2010 I started my shopping and now all this stuff has piled up. So a few weeks ago I put her up on stands to do winter maintenance (done) and got started here's the list followed by some I progress pics.

1. Decelarotors
2. MRR GT5 wheels with Michelins
3. Red calipers
4. Insulation kit from Madvette (took 3 Mos to get, but nice+ cheap)
5. Custom leather seats
6. Double Din bezel w/ Kenwood from Double D. (note here- Dennis at Double D is a busy guy. His work is great and prices fair. It took many many months to get this bezel done how I wanted and I'm still gonna mod it myself somemore. He just didn't seem to understand what I wanted even with a pic of exactly what I wanted. That said- he has been there every step and been very helpful. I will order from him again)

Bezel has custom iPod/iPhone dock, eliminated ashtray replaced with smoothed cubbyhole hole with USB and aux power under lid. (not done yet)

7. Backup camera, bluetooth,etc
8. Some underhood dressup- nothing too loud- still want to see that beautiful motor!

Lots of other stuff planned, but this is what I'm doing now. Heres some in progress photos:


This is how the bezel came from Dennis, but I molded the ashtray area into a cubby hole (no holes) and added a USB input for the Kenwood plus I recessed the iPhone mount hole. - more Pics to follow.


Before and after seats


Logos on the seat backs:


Insulation kit:



Here's the custom bezel changes before primer:


Leather wrapped door bezels:

 

Seats look awesome. Are you upgrade speakers? I'm tickled with my system with the top up but top down leaves alot to be desired.

 

Nah, not yet. I got the roem-vet1 adapter from Dennis. It's a 'vert so sound quality gets lost a bit. We mostly have the top down wheneve possible. Really wanted the in dash Nav because my garmin mounted to the windshield blocks too much view. Speakers/amps/crossovers etc maybe next winter.

 

Looking good and enjoy those new mods

Chuck

 

You've been one busy dude! Looks great

I too should start to mod my Vette!

Thanks,Matt

 

What do you think aboout the insulation package? Has it cut down on noise, warmth, cool, any over all improvement? I'm thinking of doing that next year with seat cover replacment. Looks good

 

I am with you Matt.

 

Everything you're doing is a good improvement.

 

I have the same kit from Madvette, however I have not installed it yet. How long did it take to pull everything out, install the kit and then reinstall?

 

Well..... when you gonna stop messing around and get a supercharger already....

 

The mods you've done are very nice.

 

Once you start the mods, it's all over. Looks great!

 

 

 

Looking good!!!

 

Cant really give a review yet as the car is still on stands right now. I can say for sure these 2 things:

1. The carpet feels nice and plush!
2. It CAN'T hurt!

This weekend I hope to get the stereo wired and more parts off to the painter. I'll take her off the stands and cruise around some. I want to have her ready to drive so my folks can take a ride while they're here next week. Their poor baby is still in storage for the winter in Syracuse- but here in VA we've been riding our dirtbikes!

 

It took a long time and a lot of emails and phone calls to get the kit from Madvette, about 2.5 months. But in the end, I got it, the price is nice and it seems like a good quality kit. It is worth having the pieces Pre cut. I used almost every piece of extra that was sent with the kit too. I've only got about 2 sf left over. I had to do very little trimming. But I went to town adding additional pieces to completely cover every square inch I could get at...and some I couldn't get at!

Overall, following Madvette's guide with pics it took me about 8 hours. I only had help for the last hour, my son helped handing menpieces of tape. I used 2 full rolls of tape. I had about 6" left!

So- I've never really done much interior work, much less stripping an entire interior out of a sports car, but I'd say it was pretty easy.

 

Someday...soon I hope!

I've got my new wheels in the garage and ordering my Michelins this week. Hopefully SLP long tubes with high flow cats by this fall with another ECS tune....enjoy for awhile, get anxious...supercharge!!!

That's the plan anyhoo. Just gotta convice that woman that lives with me!

 

This was the most discreet local that I think looks good, and points in the right direction!

 

Nice touch on the seats, look great.