Project: "Diamond in the Rough" SS

[nimrod8560]

The roof needs some love too. Nice project so far. You going to paint your ZQ8 rims next, like your dad, to match your new stripes?

[SSfan]

i never did like roof stripes i know they put them on x's but they didnt put them on the chevelles/camaros/novas and things like that on the chevy muscle cars and ive always liked the look without the roof stripes thats why i did it plus the sunroof makes it more work than its worth....i dont want to paint the wheels because i think it would be too much red with the stripes i like my dads wheels they look great, but i just had mine resurfaced and polished then clear coated, i like the shiny look on the grey rather than the red



Another update, i just took it to the 1st show since getting all this done friday and got a great response it trophied the 1st time out without being wet-sanded and buffed so im happy with that

Im putting a floor shifter from a blazer in it on wednesday, i gotta put red carpet on that console as well ill have pics up!

[old_skool_noma]

to get the shifter out for saturday, take out the 2 10 mm bolts in the cup holders, then pull the clip in the front of the shifter, then at the botom of the back of the shift boot take a flat head screw driver and pop the plastic clip out and the whole shift knob will lift off, then since we didnt bolt down the back of the console it should lift right out

then there are two plugs, one on each side of the shifter un hook those and then take the screw holding the broken shift cable off, then you can remove the nuts holding the shifter to the mounting plate and then take the shifter assembely out, then there are the 2 3/8" and one 7/16" self tapping screws holding down your mounting plate, take those out and youre ready to mount the old console

[SSfan]

i didnt see this till now!lol but i figured it out its pretty straight forward

the floor shift is in but the cable snapped when brandon(old skool noma) was helping me install it last wednesday so its not functional yet, i just got the new cable in friday so it should go in monday

[ByrdSS]

I am not a big fan of stripes but those look good. I like them! You done a great job on them.

[SSfan]

thanks

[Calvin51]

Lookin' good, but I'd paint the middle of the bowtie white and leave the red as is to go with the rest of the truck.

[old_skool_noma]

Quote: Originally Posted by Calvin51

Lookin' good, but I'd paint the middle of the bowtie white and leave the red as is to go with the rest of the truck.

agreed, id set the fog lights back a little more too

heres a chop of the bowtie

[nimrod8560]

Does your paint guy have enough of that custom red for the bowtie to match the stripes?

[SSfan]

Quote: Originally Posted by old_skool_noma

agreed, id set the fog lights back a little more too

heres a chop of the bowtie

The fogs wont go back any farther because of the frame horns, i want to keepthe ss bowtie black i like it better

[SSfan]

Quote: Originally Posted by nimrod8560

Does your paint guy have enough of that custom red for the bowtie to match the stripes?

The bowtie is a perfect match with prowler red which is a mopar color..at least they produced one good thing!lol...thats the red we used for the stripes then we added the gold pearl to make it pop...when you look at it in the sun the stripes are a perfect match with the bowtie then the gold pearl comes out he couldntve gotten the color any better at least in my opinion....even if i wanted to theres no way to paint the bowtie and make it look right i would have to take it apart and try to get it back together its not worth it

[SSfan]

I finally got pics of the floor shift conversion its all done....finally!lol...it was a bit of a pickle because the 94 colum shifter still has the 1st gen linkage so we had to swap that out...but its all done thanks to oldskoolnoma(brandon)'s help....heres some pics(i know it needs to be cleaned up!lol)

[leadsled2020]

lovin the console!
you ought to make that trac control a nitrous button.....lol

[SSfan]

Quote: Originally Posted by leadsled2020

lovin the console!
you ought to make that trac control a nitrous button.....lol

lol yeah i need to do something with it...it wasnt all that hard of a swap...at least not as hard as i thought but so far i love it

[PurplDodge]

Looks really good! I might have to do those fog lights!

[leadsled2020]

like the new sig

[SSfan]

thanks yeah mr blue came through once again!

im in the process of painting the armrest and power window delete panels red on the door panels to match the red trim nothing too over the top but enough to carry the red through it should be done tomorrow ill have pics then!

[leadsled2020]

Quote: Originally Posted by SSfan

thanks yeah mr blue came through once again!

im in the process of painting the armrest and power window delete panels red on the door panels to match the red trim nothing too over the top but enough to carry the red through it should be done tomorrow ill have pics then!

man our trucks are looking a lot alike.....

I almost bought some ZQ8's the other day but decided against... mostly because you have em...lol

[Mechnix]

Quote: Originally Posted by leadsled2020

I almost bought some ZQ8's the other day but decided against... mostly because you have em...lol

Unless you guys both live on the same street you shouldn't let that stop you from getting what you want.
Heck my son's Sonoma came with them and I'm not taking them off because I've seen other trucks with them...LOL

[SSfan]

lol i love zq8s ive wanted them since i bought the truck

mine wont have as much red as your ledsled, its not done but i did a trail on a junk door panel i have i also took the armrest off and painted it too heres the trial




i didnt do a bright red i did a darker red to match the carpet/headliner and such i think it looks alot better than the all grey door panel

[leadsled2020]

looks good! what did you use to paint the vinyl arm rest?

[90blueS10]

better pics, those have bad color

[SSfan]

yeah it was a cell phone pic thats why its bad, my cameras screwed up right now once i get it fixed ill get better pics of them, its all done now the real door panels are installed so once the camera gets fixed ill get some on here

ledsled to answer your question i used a duplicolor red but to prep them i cleaned them up real good then i sprayed some adhesion promoter on then i sprayed the color on

[SSfan]

Ok guys i finally got my camera fixed so heres some better pics of the door panels with the red armrest and power window delete panel

[90blueS10]

looks good

[sonomanator]

what a hack i would junk it.

[TRPLS10]

truck looks good.. really like the shifter!

[SSfan]

thanks i love it..its alot better than the column shift

[SSfan]

Quote: Originally Posted by sonomanator

what a hack i would junk it.

at least its not a noma