Rubens Red VS berlina, Full Caprice interior

[jdaly13]

Hey guys this is my 1995 VS berlina 3.8L ecotec, I picked it up for four grand and so far its been a great first car. So for ive just been doing small things i can manage myself to it like the interior which i picked up for 400 dollars. Im hoping to get it lowered and get an exhaust system for it just waiting on funds as i am a student :S, but yeah please leave some comments and let me know what you's think for some ideas thanks

Colour
Rubens Red Mica
Kilometer
130000
Buy Price
$4000
Modifications
Interior

• VS caprice leather/Woodgrain door trims
• VS Caprice front electric seats
• VS Caprice rear leather seats
• VS caprice Leather/Woodgrain Center Condsole
• Pioneer AVH-P5105DVD head unit
• Blue Led dash light Conversion

Exterior

• VY SS 17 rims
• Debadged "Berlina"
• Chrome windscreen wipers

Engine

• CAI

Future

• Superlow springs all round
• Exhaust system
• Extractors

[smurfman]

Hey you got your own thread good I love the interior adds heaps of class soo much better than stock

[nathanVY]

Wow caprice interior looks really good!

[hwy747]

That interior really sets it off! Looks like it is in pretty good nic! Nice ride!

[vscalaishsv]

i guse lowered springs are next on the list???

[Jonnii]

wow you must be happy with that its all in such good condition as well. Just need the leather wrapped shifter

[jdaly13]

i guse lowered springs are next on the list???

Haha yeah thats the plan i swapped my old berlina seats for some rear superlows last night just hunting down some shocks and front springs now.

[jdaly13]

Wow caprice interior looks really good!

Thanks mate

[jdaly13]

Yeah a major improvement front stock im pretty happy with it

[Thomas1]

Nice car, best VS colour as well (I might be a bit bias though )

The wheels are VZ SS not VY SS

[Ice101]

As everyone else has said, that interior looks fricken sweet! I like.

[jdaly13]

Quick update

Did a blue LED dash conversion job on my VS looks pretty good i think there were cold spots around the 0 RPM area and the 220km/h area so i had to wire in 2 new LEDs... So now theres hot spots in those areas haha but it looks much better than the cold spots and you can notice as much irl. Overall i think it turned out pretty good. The LCD screens are pretty easy to do i made my own facias aswell as putting in blue globes I also did my gear display too i still have to sort out the 'R' tho.. Let us know what you think.

I also picked up some rear king superlows on the weekend some im just chasing the rear shocks and some front springs if any1 could help me out that would be greatly appreciated. Thanks guys

Also do you need new front shocks if you replace the stock springs with say superlows?


Heres some pics

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[nathanVY]

Nice, looks really good. how'd you go about making your own facias, doing the needles & the lcds?

[jdaly13]

Hey Nathan
For the facias i went down to office works and bought a writing book with a blue transparent cover on it lol it cost me about 2 bucks, then i took out the old green facias that were in there and cut the same sized peices out of my book cover. I used about four cut outs per LCD screen i think just because i wanted a dark blue. Then i put it all back together and the normall globes made my LCDs blue but it had kind of a wierd tinge to it because of the actual colour of the LCD.( If you look at your LCDs during the day or with your lights off its that coloul.. sort of a yellowy grey/green). It still looked pretty good tho but i wasnt happy with it so i bought some Blue globes off EBay to replace the standard ones behing the LCD's and it took away that tinge and now they look much better. all up it cost me about $15 for the globes and book haha. And for the blue needles i just rubbed off the orange with nail polish remover and put a thing layer of white nail polish over it so you can see it well during the day and it lights up blue at night because of the globes

[jdaly13]

car is now lowered

[some_guy]

put up some pics man.

This car is awesome!

[GIB38L]

Hey guys this is my 1995 VS berlina 3.8L ecotec, I picked it up for four grand and so far its been a great first car. So for ive just been doing small things i can manage myself to it like the interior which i picked up for 400 dollars. Im hoping to get it lowered and get an exhaust system for it just waiting on funds as i am a student :S, but yeah please leave some comments and let me know what you's think for some ideas thanks

Colour
Rubens Red Mica
Kilometer
130000
Buy Price
$4000
Modifications
Interior

• VS caprice leather/Woodgrain door trims
• VS Caprice front electric seats
• VS Caprice rear leather seats
• VS caprice Leather/Woodgrain Center Condsole
• Pioneer AVH-P5105DVD head unit
• Blue Led dash light Conversion

Exterior

• VY SS 17 rims
• Debadged "Berlina"
• Chrome windscreen wipers

Engine

• CAI

Future

• Superlow springs all round
• Exhaust system
• Extractors

hey man i have a vs acclaim n i wanna put caprice front seats in but i dont know how to do it.. how did you fit them in? can you use the manual rails with the caprice seats?
cheers GIB38L

[jdaly13]

Hey GIB38L sorry about the late reply. Na you cant use the manual rails with the caprice seats because they are electric, but if you get a hold of some caprice seats the electrics are fairly easy to wire up. another thing is that only 3/4 of the rail bolts line up when you put the electrics ones in, but i just drive around with 3 in and it doesn't rattle or rock :P. Good luck with it