What's up guys, I have searched for this topic specifically and couldn't find any answers but sorry if its been asked before. I'm taking my car to Bing @ Simplicity In Sound next Tuesday and in the process want to do some interior touch up before he reassembles car. The pieces I'm looking to get done are both arm rest covers (mine have peeled), both circular trim pieces inside door handle & rear strut bar. I know the arm rest covers & strut bar pop off easily but what about the circular trim inside the door handle? While he takes door panel off is it possible for him to get the that off the door w/o the handle so I can ship it? Probably going to go the hydrodipping route, I tried contacting Tony @ Carbon Fiber Element but no response :/

 

Tony doesn't do that anymore, believe me I've really pressed him for it. The barrels in the door are relatively easy to replace and not too expensive the arm rests just go evo-r they don't have the best fitment but they are cheap relative to any other alternative. Unless you paint them

 

Regardless of what year you have I recommend using the 03-05 barrels, yes they work for every other year.

 

Nice Bing did my A-pillars and Kick Panels , AMAZING WORK!

 

Care to share any pics? Currently in a dilemma between putting Morel Elates in either door pods or kicks but initially chose door pods to save foot space. Seeing how everybody recommends kicks SQ wise makes me ponder my decision but ultimately didn't want to lose my dead pedal. But seeing some close up pics could change my mind

 

if you check in my build thread, you will see the Kick Panels and A-pillars . Better Sound from Kick panels than pods , i have done both. Also you loss space either way , pods take space away from getting in and out of the car.

https://my350z.com/forum/media-share...ures-lots.html

 

I dropped my car off yesterday, excited to see end results. He was initially going to work on my G35, then I placed a deposit down, sold the car & impulse bought the nismo and feel the car needed the upgrade

He's going to do A-pillar tweets (which he highly recommended over sails) and stock mounted 6.5 comps with full sound deadening to the door. I asked if he thought the sound quality in the door location would result in excessive resonance and bad SQ and he said no. I understand pods are far more superior for SQ but I am super OCD and want to leave the door looking stock... I hate the look of both kicks & door pods no offense

And instead of hydrodipping rear strut cover I'm considering having a local body shop paint it to match the graphite on exterior trim and clear coat over it, then paint the logo black

Already placed the deposit for the hydrodipping and was thinking I should go through with it and have the driver/passenger handle trims hydrodipped CF as well as trim between door handle/vent

And then also have the body shop paint the trim around the A/C vent on door panel from grey to black