A few months back, a friend of mine let me drive his ZR1. I was not only impressed with the scary torque and horsepower but really liked his improved interior. I even toyed with the idea of getting a ZR1 to replace my '05 convertible, but I really love my Vert so I went a different direction.

After being inspired by what Studiovette had done to his interior, I first replaced the factory seat skins with these from Leatherseats.com. The leather is really topgrade, soft and well put together. I told Eric at Leatherseats that I was looking at recovering lots of other parts in leather and would probably use DSVettes, but he said they could do anything in leather so I gave them a shot. We ended up using the same Ecstasy leather on both door panels, radio bezel, console base & lid, Emer boot & handle, Shift boot & ****, cluster pods, that little porkchop piece on passenger side of radio bezel and both visors. Although it took quite a while longer than either Eric or I thought it would (several problems arose with waiting on leather, they lost their primary fabricator guy and a back log of other orders), I finally got all the pieces back (except visors, still waiting on) and installed. I'm really happy with the fit and finish of all the leather work and I saved a couple of thousand dollars after having DSVettes giving me a bid. As you can see below, I did order the DStyle steering wheel from DSV. Oh, and I replaced my old Lloyd's mats with some new ones. So here's the leather results











And since I had all the parts removed, what better time than to replace the factory Bose radio and NAV. So I called Dennis at DoubleD Mods and he put together a great package with a Kenwood 6980 Nav/radio, new speakers and a amplifer that went right behind the passenger seat. Love the new sound, I can finally listen to tunes with the top down!!!



Then once all the interior stuff was done, I had Stephen and Chris at East Texas Muscle Cars do a Stage 5 package for me which gave me a A&A Vortech, LG Motosport SS headers, a ported and polished throttle body and a great tune. I went from about 350 RWHP to 584 RWHP and a jump of over 100 on torque. This thing is SCARY fast now, I'm pretty sure my ZR1 friend won't be running away from me now. Looks like I'm going to have to get Pipedreams to do me a new alternator cover with the numbers changed.





Now that I've got all this extra HP, I've already started planning my next project which will give me more rubber to the road. I want to see how Smooth72's project finishes out but I really would like to do a SuperVettes ZR1 body panel swap so I can change the rear wheels out to 19X12 and of course add some sway bars and coilovers....but that may be next year.

Sorry the post was so long, but it took me nearly three months to get all of this done. A special thanks to Eric at Leatherseats.com, Dennis at DoubleD Mods and a real special Kudo to Stephen and Chris at ETMC, my new found performance guru.

 

sweet ride

 

Wow. Outstanding. The interior is the best I've seen.

 

 

Wow! That is really good looking. Thanks for the post and all the pix.

 

 

Dont be sorry. Looks fantastic!

 

looks wonderfully done.

 

Very nice! Love the smoker too!

Enjoy your ride, and drive it like you stole it as often as possible!

 

Wow. That is a handsome interior. Well done.

best, Ken .... 2008 Coupe

 

Your vette looks fantastic and has the power to back up its looks

 

I love the interior, that color combo would look great in my magnetic red.

 

Nicely done.

 

By far the best cashmere interior with LMB I've ever seen!
I really like the blue stitching!

 

Looks great.

 

Very good looking interior.

 

Very well done!! I like the LMB stitching. It subtle with just enough hint of close up contrast and brings it all together.

 

for all the great comments. Yep, the blue stitching really came out better than I had hoped for. I was really tired of the pretty much solid Cashmere interior and really liked the look of Studiovettes two tone interior, so I did pretty much the same scheme, but did a lot more parts & pieces.

The Kenwood is great, much better sound. Since I already had Borlas it was already pretty loud, but with the headers it sounds reall badazzz. Love the power, but gotta relearn how to drive it so I don't kill myself with all the extra power.

 

Nice, I like it a lot.

 

How much was the interior? I'm looking to go from an ebony to a two-tone interior and wondering if this would be in my budget. (I know DSV is out of my budget, but you said these guys saved you some money.)