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Recently i did all the plastics for my mates 34,heres some pics for you guys that wanted to see what a black colour would look like.its called saturn black its also heat and chemical resistant. theres some befores and afters in there too.

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has anyone done this on a r34 with the popup screen? What extra steps are involved if anyone knows ???

Also does anyone know a good shadow silver/charcoal paint colour? I don't wanna do it up in black so as to leave a bit of contrast (like the original)

Oh and does anyone know if you can replace the led/light inside the radio/AC Unit ? my dash leds are blue and the radio/ac are green so I'd like to change these to blue as well when I take all of it out

Jack, any chance of taking a couple of piccies of your mates interior now with all of it back in place? Good work by the way, wish I had mates like you :P Cheers

Edited by Delta Force
has anyone done this on a r34 with the popup screen? What extra steps are involved if anyone knows ???

Also does anyone know a good shadow silver/charcoal paint colour? I don't wanna do it up in black so as to leave a bit of contrast (like the original)

Oh and does anyone know if you can replace the led/light inside the radio/AC Unit ? my dash leds are blue and the radio/ac are green so I'd like to change these to blue as well when I take all of it out

Jack, any chance of taking a couple of piccies of your mates interior now with all of it back in place? Good work by the way, wish I had mates like you :banana: Cheers

In my first post I've got a recommended colour for the plastic, go to supercheap and check it out, it's a good match :)

Recently i did all the plastics for my mates 34,heres some pics for you guys that wanted to see what a black colour would look like.its called saturn black its also heat and chemical resistant. theres some befores and afters in there too.

So you sprayed them all white as an undercoat, and then used the saturn black as a 2nd coat??

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What about those duplicolor brands.. are they any good? they have the pewter color that matches nissan sonic silver which the guy from autobarn showed me from the book.

Do you Guys spray clear coatings after applying the paint?

I used 3 coats of clear coat on the trim parts I painted. A bit overkill and when the sun was out the gauge cluster would reflect a bit onto the windshield

would probably need 2 coats max for the gauge cluster, put as many coats as you like on the rest :(

I posted these somewhere before but here's my effort:

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I used powerplus paints too

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hey guys, how do you take off the aircon surround??

hmm okay i had a look at it,

aircon is gonna be a tricky one to do with the red & blue temps around the dial which i want to keep.

ill do everything else tho.

see how i go

good to do over the xmas break :)

Edited by dori32

looks very nice .. I'm gonna do the same to mine but do the vents and aircon and perhaps the top lcd cover (I have that popup screen) in black. Then find some nice silver pedals and a silve bezel insert for the console and the car shouldn't look so 1998 anymore (maybe a bit more like 1999) :banana:

Speaking of which I'm going to go and rip out my (broken) lcd now ..wish me luck!

Edited by Delta Force

ok whatever you do don't use SEPTONE paint/primer .. this shit is just evil, I wasted 4-5 hours only to realize the paint itself is a POS. Will go looking for Powerplus paints tommorow.

i wanna do mine but the only thing that worries me is the AC controls. the blue and red thing around the knob did you guys just tape it up and spray painted the whole thing???

and can some one provide a step to step process and dismantling the ac unit???

the whole centre console (ac, stereo etc) slides out .. it's just 4 screws holding it in there. The blue/red on the AC is piss easy, just take them out as well as the clear plastic and spray the rest. Then glue them back in afterwards, it's no big deal trust me.

yeah it's all just clipped in ... the only thing you should be careful about is removing the vents - use a thin screwdriver from the left hand side and they'll pop out too. Make sure to protect the corners with masking tape to avoid accidental scratches when poping out vents and sliding out the console etc

To reveal the 4 screws holding it all in place, remve the gear shifter surround (pops out once you remove the screw behind the ashtray) and the vents - don't try removing any other fascias whilst the console is still in there. The vents will reveal the remaining 2 screws.

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