Curious to know if there is a retrofit or kit where the dash and console can be changed. I have the Jet Black interior however would like to add some adrenaline red to interior. Probably not possible, but wanted to ask the question on the forum.

thank you.

 

Not sure if this is what you are looking for but this would add some red to the cabin.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/40372309716...wAAOSwHnpirFN~

https://www.ebay.com/itm/40406446847...wAAOSwTH5joXjV

https://www.ebay.com/itm/40410332313...oAAOSw24Bjv9-M

https://www.ebay.com/itm/40402811872...sAAOSwQVNjiW3s. They do have this in red. You can contact them directly.

I have purchased from them and their quality is top shelf. Contact Mila if you have any questions. She is great to deal with.

 

You can frequently purchase some of the dashboard piece parts on sites such as eBay, then pay your local dealer to do the install. I have the Jet Black interior on a Red Mist HTC and are in the process of introducing a few "touches" of red in the cabin. In my case, that takes the form of a red carbon fiber center stripe on the steering wheel, seatbelt pads with a bit of red in the design, and a small strip of red trim on the "row of buttons". I don't have any photos at the moment. I may take some later....Good luck.

 

There was a thread where an owner with two tone interior removed the "boomerangs" or whatever theyre called on the dash and replaced them with black. If you have the VIN for a two tone interior C8 in the color youre after you could use that to go to parts department and order said boomerangs to install. That thread where someone swapped them has very good pics and detailed account of the process too.

 

I would go to a place that does car interiors, I am sure they could figure it out.

 

Sure, just buy the parts from your dealer or an online parts seller and swap them out. The interiors are pretty much like Lego sets, remove one piece & add a new one.

 

If you can find the parts you want in the color you want, no reason why you couldn't change the color of those components on your car - kind of adding a custom touch to the interior.

 

thank you. I can’t seem to find these panels anywhere. Would you happen to know or point me in the right direction ?

 

Ask on here for someone with two tone interior in the color you want (adrenaline red, tension/twilight, sky cool grey) to PM you or post their VIN. Use that to order OEM parrs via your dealer parts dept. Ill see if I can locate the thread for you when I have time to try a few searches or you can give it a shot.

 

Spray paint?

 

Thank you for all of the replies and suggestions…much appreciated.

 

Most dealers (maybe not Chevy but any high end dealership) will have a leather shop they work with. Try calling one of those dealer's service department or better yet stop by and ask the service department. It might actually be less money and you can choose what you want.

 

Check out https://strickerauto.hollanderstores...r&sortdir=DESC . They purchased all the storm damaged 2022's from the Dec 21 Bowling Green storm. They have some red interior pieces available, including the center console.

 

This is the thread:

https://www.corvetteforum.com/forums...-part-one.html

 

OK here is our update…first, thanks HUGE to Richard454 on the DYMO product – got one right away and have been using it since. Life changer.



As for the car, I have been mired in the wiper system for some time now. I am removing the vacuum system (except for power brakes), which of course changes how the wiper door needs to be actuated. Plus, I am doing a complete custom wire job, so I haven’t been able to use any existing switching, relays, or circuits, so I have had to figure out how all of this nonsense fits together. While it isn’t really terrible, I guess I didn’t pay close enough attention in my electrical engineering classes as it has been a bit of an uphill battle. There is just a lot going on in this system from the wonky ground-combination-signals required to do Hi/Lo/Park on the wiper motor, to the logic of waiting on door open before wipers go and then wipers park before door close, kill switch, etc…



Anyhow, I got it all working today! Here is the story…First, I got the wiper bay all cleaned of debris and mouse leftovers. I removed the wiper arm assemblies and gave it a good bed liner coating…turned out pretty nice:




Then, I got to work figuring out how to wire this mess to get it all to work. What ended up being required was 8 relays, a handful of diodes, limit switch, linear actuator, and bell crank…that’s all! I ended up making (3D print) a mount that goes on the tunnel in front of the head unit to hold all of the growing electronics mess. Then on the mount go panels that each can hold whatever they need to. Here is a pic:



On the far-left panel is the control unit for the Restomod air unit that will be going in. Then the next two panels together hold the 8 relays for the whole wiper system. These relays interact with the three switches dangling on the side of the tunnel ([Wash Hi/Lo], [Wash], [Kill]) as well as the wiper motor, door safety switch, wipe park to orchestrate everything. Here is a screenshot of the electrical diagram of this part of the system…in this you can see the 8 relays and the 3 switches; there are three additional lighting switches that aren’t in the car yet but are here as everything in the diagram is relatively located to its actual position in the car (not to scale) and these three switches will be just to the left of the three wiper switches…all of the wire colors match actual wire colors…mostly...I think:


One thing to note: I could have sworn I had read (and was completely confident) that the kill switch interrupted the ignition 12V to the wiper motor. Everyone probably knew this but me and it is probably super easy to research, but my confidence got in the way and it took me absolutely forever to figure out, only after dumb luck trying it, that the kill switch actually interrupts the constant 12V to the wiper motor, NOT the ignition 12V. Live and learn.

For the door control, I ended up replacing the vacuum system with the linear actuator/bell crank seen in the image below. It all works…operator turns on wiper hi or low, linear actuator retracts, bell crank pushes pushrod in, door opens and wipers wait to start until door is open (although my door open safety switch had a loose connection that sometimes worked and other times didn’t, which made it fun to debug this system!). Anyhow, operator turns wiper off, wiper parks while door waits until park limit is closed (pic below) and then door closes. The 2 pics below show first the fully assembled wiper bay including the “wiper parked” limit switch (I put a piece of large heat shrink tube over the base of the wiper arm as the limit switch looked like it could eventually scratch through the paint of the wiper arm, so I thought this was a nice way of protecting the arm and giving the limit switch a nice rubber surface to roll against) and then after the door open/close actuator:





This all ended up taking a ton of time to figure out. I know there are kits available for this. I didn’t do it on my own to save money, but it the end, the parts for the wiper door actuator and park limit switch (which is comparable to what you get in the packages plus some relays) was probably $150 whereas the kits on the wiper door are I think close to $800. I will pretty mine up at some point, but just some intel for ya.

One other point is that you will see in the picture above the newly mounted wash fluid reservoir. This is next up as I not only moved away from the “baggie” reservoir (WTF????) but am also changing the spray nozzles. It is like they ran out of time or just said screw it on these things. The bag system, while I understand space constraints, is comical. And the spray nozzles on my car were literally hand bent tubes that just kinda stick out of the wiper arms….we can do better. Anyhow, there is now a legit reservoir. It is tucked waaaayyyyy inside the pax fender well, so I have to work out a better filler nozzle (watching me try to fill that thing is also somewhat comical). But the new wash system is going to be a ton better.

That’s all for now…had it out on the road testing a fix to the power steering that is all now sorted thanks to a 64 degree Indiana winter day and now she is back on the lifts! I once the washers are done I will turn back to the interior to get more dash and HVAC moving now that a bulk of the wiring madness will be behind me. I do think I will switch out the firewall pass through for through-panel connectors somewhere along the lines as well.