Custom interior work with resin

I was looking on cardomain.com and seen some interior work in progress. How did they get their whole dash so glossy? Did they just add a coat of resin or did they make a mold out of the resin?

By resin do you mean fiberglass? You don't just throw resing on something. Maybe it was just armor-all. Post a link so that we can see what you are talking about.

was it fiberglass? if so it probly had a clear coat on it

I dunno, fiberglass resin puts off quite the shine with a flat rattle can. I recently finished a box for some 10's and a sealed 12 in my trunk and covered/sealed it with fiberglass, then a plain coat of resin and painted it black with one of those $0.99 cans of flat black spray paint from wal-mart, and its pretty shiny.

and yeah, a link would be nice. and, I wouldn't suggest coating your dash with resin...bad bad idea. bad idea, just bad.

nice dash, saves weight too but it looks like keeping A/C would be a pain in the ass: vibrant performance (http://www.vibrantperformance.com/images/eproducts/pdfs/2003_Product_Guide_Page04.pdf)

I imagine those dashes could be pretty cool, provided the sun never comes out. Im not sure I like the tan though, looks like someone melted a barbie doll all over the dash.

bet they're better for customizing, you could probably even do some airbrush on those.

yea you could always have them painted the same color as your car

the picture seems to have disappeared. it was there 2 days ago. it looked like he just glued fabric on the dash then just started to apply fiberglass resin. it ended up looking pretty good i'm just not 100% sure how he had done that.

maby with alot of wet sanding and buffing you could but then you would need to paint them, for the effort i like the ones from vibrant performance.

If your dash is plastic, or door panels.. whatever..
You can remove it all, sand it down with kinda rough sandpaper, primer it, sand it w/finer sandpaper, primer.. then sand with Very fine, so its smooth as u want the finished product to be, it will be very smooth plastic, then paint it w/ Krylon preferably, what ever color, then with Clear Enamel to get even glossier look. With the Krylon, u can get the glossy colors too. But in the end if u do it right, it looks jus like fiberglass. ;)

hmm i might have to try that. el_loco_civic, where in ATL do you stay? im in decatur.

I wondered about that but i think my dash and door panels are more like vinyl than plastic. you think it might ruin? thanks for all the help.

there have been many a debates on here about painting the vinyl inside your car. I suggest using the search button about painting interior, interior paint, yada yada yada, whatever combo of words you can think of...read the old threads, then decide for yourself. check the interior section for Honda/Acura too.

for straight painting on vinyl there is a company and product by the name of SEMS, they make a line of paint specially made for painting vinyl interior, rugs etc. in your cars, you can get it at some auto stores and online, its great stuff. fiberglass is some serious stuff and its easy to ruin your interior pieces with, hope that might help some of you who just want to add a little color at least.

you might wanna check post dates next time, this thread is nearly a year old

hahah yea no shit...

If your dash is plastic, or door panels.. whatever..
You can remove it all, sand it down with kinda rough sandpaper, primer it, sand it w/finer sandpaper, primer.. then sand with Very fine, so its smooth as u want the finished product to be, it will be very smooth plastic, then paint it w/ Krylon preferably, what ever color, then with Clear Enamel to get even glossier look. With the Krylon, u can get the glossy colors too. But in the end if u do it right, it looks jus like fiberglass. ;)

That's what I did: http://images.cardomain.com/member_images/9/web/429000-429999/429931_4_full.jpg

Sanding is key, and getting the right grain sand paper at each interval is crucial. However I didn't use Krylon. I used a plastic adhesive primer and a very close matched Electron Blue metallic paint + clear coat. I'm happy with the way it turned out. Mind you, it took me about 4 tries before I got the process down with no flaws.

sorry, didn't realize how old this thread was...

damn, still posting on this. this shit's old. It's just best to buy the car with the interior color you want. Not worth painting interior parts that are going to be constantly touched and used (i.e. switches, handles). Unless it's a show car.