All my interior mods thus far...

wiggyx · Post by **wiggyx** » Wed Dec 23, 2009 2:24 pm

srtgtr34 wrote:No red turn signals??

I read your how to, and there is a way to make the red odometer visble during the day. If you sand the black tint off of the area and place cellophane over the odo display it is perfectly visble even with the sun glaring on it.

I found that the cellophane wasn't the best material to use so I used the vamp film. In addition the odo area should be masked off and retinted to give it a much cleaner look.

I thought about doing the signals. It wouldn't take any more effort, I just don't mind them being green. If they stayed on for any length of time then I would have done them too.

As far as the ODO goes, no. You're pretty much screwed there. Either make it red/pink and only see it at night, or just live with it being green

What do you mean when you say the ODO area should be masked and painted?

sidepipe87 wrote:
neonslg09 wrote:The insert areas where the HVAC knobs go into place, how did you remove those to get them painted?
Those aren't removable. Mask them off very carefully.

Masking, although, not so carefully. I removed the overlay first. Makes it way easier and comes out ten times cleaner than masking it.

srtgtr34 · Post by **srtgtr34** » Tue Dec 29, 2009 12:29 pm

wiggyx wrote:
I thought about doing the signals. It wouldn't take any more effort, I just don't mind them being green. If they stayed on for any length of time then I would have done them too.

As far as the ODO goes, no. You're pretty much screwed there. Either make id red/pink and only see it at night, or just live with it being green

What do you mean when you say the ODO area should be masked and painted?

When you sand off some of the odo film, the area is going to look all uneven some clear some still tinted. so you just mask off the rectangular area and ligtly tint it. You'll have a much cleaner look and people can't even tell that the red film is back there until the odo lights up.

I did this for my odo along with the vamp red film I had laying around and got an awesome result, thats red at night and still clearly visable during the day.

wiggyx · Post by **wiggyx** » Tue Dec 29, 2009 2:00 pm

I don't sand down the area with the ODO. Someone sent me a cluster that had that tint sanded down and it didn't look very good. I may try and play with that to see what I get

srtgtr34 · Post by **srtgtr34** » Tue Dec 29, 2009 3:40 pm

wiggyx wrote:I don't sand down the area with the ODO. Someone sent me a cluster that had that tint sanded down and it didn't look very good. I may try and play with that to see what I get

Oops I forgot about that..... After the odo arear gets tinted, rmove the tape and put down some spray can clear, upol 1 works perfect.

This pic was taken before I retinted the odo area.

Haganracing · Post by **Haganracing** » Tue Dec 29, 2009 4:19 pm

I like that setup, looks good!

wiggyx · Post by **wiggyx** » Tue Dec 29, 2009 5:56 pm

I may try this. I have that already sanded down face so I'll give it a go. It would be nice to see my trip/ODO during the day. Thanks!

TheRandom1 · Post by **TheRandom1** » Tue Dec 29, 2009 8:37 pm

Interesting idea...

neonslg09 · Post by **neonslg09** » Sun Jan 03, 2010 9:46 am

Your DTEC Controller holding, have you made it to where you can hold an iPod?

wiggyx · Post by **wiggyx** » Sun Jan 03, 2010 11:20 pm

^^^ I'm makin one for someone else as we speak. What iPod do you have? PM me and we can talk about it.

neonslg09 · Post by **neonslg09** » Sun Jan 03, 2010 11:25 pm

You has a PM

wiggyx · Post by **wiggyx** » Mon Jan 04, 2010 12:42 am

replied!

srtjesse · Post by **srtjesse** » Sun Jan 10, 2010 10:49 pm

i love your interior

neonpla · Post by **neonpla** » Mon Jan 11, 2010 6:14 am

whats going on with the shiftys?

wiggyx · Post by **wiggyx** » Mon Jan 11, 2010 8:59 am

srtjesse wrote:i love your interior

Thanks!

neonpla wrote:whats going on with the shiftys?

Nothing at the moment. I've got all this lighting stuff that I'm working on at the moment. However, my New Year's resolution was to make serious headway on bringing them back this year. It's gonna take a lot of work and a moderate amount of money (which is tight right now with the wife in grad school). I'll keep you guys posted for sure.

heydockyle · Post by **heydockyle** » Mon Jan 11, 2010 9:04 am

neonpla wrote:whats going on with the shiftys?

That's whats going on yo

wiggyx · Post by **wiggyx** » Mon Jan 11, 2010 9:44 am

LilSparkPlug · Post by **LilSparkPlug** » Mon Jan 11, 2010 11:05 am

Can has Shifty

neonslg09 · Post by **neonslg09** » Mon Jan 11, 2010 11:21 am

Shifty's are awesome. I like yours Crystal and Kyle.

wiggyx · Post by **wiggyx** » Mon Jan 11, 2010 11:22 am

Crystal was my first customer actually! Also, the only person that has the kitty cat style. After that, everyone wanted theirs to look pissed off

TheRandom1 · Post by **TheRandom1** » Mon Jan 11, 2010 11:24 am

I love mine.

LilSparkPlug · Post by **LilSparkPlug** » Mon Jan 11, 2010 11:44 am

First Shifty, first tinted set of HVAC inserts. I am a Wiggy modification pioneer! lol! I thought mine was adorable, I didn't want it to be angry. I think we need a post your Shifty picture thread.

srtjesse · Post by **srtjesse** » Mon Jan 11, 2010 11:48 am

no you are his guinea pig lol jk

and your shifty looks like its amazed at all the pink in your car lol

LilSparkPlug · Post by **LilSparkPlug** » Mon Jan 11, 2010 11:51 am

I wanted it to have the O_O face.

srtjesse · Post by **srtjesse** » Mon Jan 11, 2010 12:02 pm

i know i was just messing with you it looks cool

Chris04sxt · Post by **Chris04sxt** » Mon Jan 11, 2010 12:03 pm

wiggyx wrote:^^^ I'm makin one for someone else as we speak. What iPod do you have? PM me and we can talk about it.

PM'd about this also.

heydockyle · Post by **heydockyle** » Mon Jan 11, 2010 2:44 pm

Once you get back into the shifties I want a custom color one.

Jenni · Post by **Jenni** » Mon Jan 11, 2010 5:17 pm

i wanna have a blue or black shifty!!
you need to make them again!!!!!!

wiggyx · Post by **wiggyx** » Mon Jan 11, 2010 5:23 pm

LilSparkPlug wrote: First Shifty, first tinted set of HVAC inserts. I am a Wiggy modification pioneer! lol! I thought mine was adorable, I didn't want it to be angry. I think we need a post your Shifty picture thread.

Hells yeah! My first one, the very first one, was the same style. Let me dig up a pic...

and here's the 2nd one I ever made. (Notice how it's less "gay" in order to appeal to the excessively homophobic SRT crowd

)

srtjesse wrote:no you are his guinea pig lol jk

and your shifty looks like its amazed at all the pink in your car lol

I'm my own guinea pig

You should see my studio space at home. It's full of projects. Some are full of win, some are full of fail.

Chris04sxt wrote: PM'd about this also.

Got it

I'll get back to you later today. I'm actually not feeling too well, and am trying to get some of my more pressing freelance work wrapped up today that I couldn't over the weekend (I'm posting while a 15mb attachment is uploading).

heydockyle wrote:Once you get back into the shifties I want a custom color one.

I may not be doing the custom stuff when they come back. Part of why I stopped was because it's simply too much work to make them by hand

I ended up having to take a couple of personal days about a year ago to catch up with orders that had piled up. I want them to work more like Dunnies or other similar toys when they come back (i.e. different "series" with unique designs and colors for each line, with a new series to arrive every few months).

These are what Dunnies are just in case you're not familiar. They're little bunny-like figures with different graphics applied (often by famous designers).

FAC3L3SS · Post by **FAC3L3SS** » Mon Jan 11, 2010 5:25 pm

Dunnies are so win.

wiggyx · Post by **wiggyx** » Mon Jan 11, 2010 5:28 pm

Yes. Yes they are.