Making custom Panels

Hi I want to make custom door panels and custom dash with tv integegrated in it and speakers and tv in door panels. I have a lot of experience with fiberglass I just have never learned how to do that so If anyone knows how to do it, and if they can help me out I'd really appreciate it, Thank you. Basically, makeing a dash out of fiberglass, how to do that?

you are going to need some poly styrene expanding foam....and alot of it....if yo uwant to build completely from scratch...if you want to make a mold of you current door panel then intigrate everything into it....i am working on custom tweeter pods right now....waiting for some resin to cure.....i will be posting pics on here and on the audio form...so keep a look out...it is just a small version of what you would do with your WHOLE door and or dash board....

When you do make a mold of the front, then how do you attach it to the door itself. Is there anyway you can explain it briefly how you would be able to do it.

check out the car audio form, "bow before they mater, bitches" 3rd page. you can attach it with anything from epoxy to double sided stickey tape... in other words, any type of adgeasive that will hold the weight will do, screws can also be used...

Hi I was going to strip the vinyl out of the stock on and basically on bare plastic, build mdf rings for speakers and tvs and then cover the rings with streched material and fiberglass it would that work or no

Yes that works.

hi I tried that but fiberglass resin dont stick well to the plastic panels. WHat can I use to bond it. Also what would be the best way to make the panels out of fiberglass?

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you would make the MDF rings and all suspended off of the plastic using wooden dowels glued to the MDF and the plastic then take Fleece and strech ot over the whole thing, then tape it or glue it then glass the fleece.... so the resin wasnt eating away at the plastic???? :sly:

no it didnt eat the pastic but it would peel right off. IF you can please give the details about that or sumthing, I would appreciat it, thanks

Gotta give it a tooth, sand the plastic with 40 grit before doing it, once the glass is fairly thick it wont come off. The resin also will not melt the plastic.

so after I sand the plastic of with 40 grit, will the resin stck better. Or resin will not stick at all to plastic. Also, what about just basically sand all the scratches of the panels that came with the dash then smooth is out with 400 g and then spray a high build primer then smooth is out with that. Then paint it just like u would a car

After you sand with the 40 the fiberglass should stick pretty good once its fairly thick so it reinforces itself. After you fiberglass prep and paint as you would anything else.

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another thing is do I use the fiberglass mat on it or just resin,

All I have is AIM (TheSilentChamber). Yeah use mat, not just resin.

oh, you where just using resin? lol...you have to use something for the resin to bond to otherwise it just breaks REALLY easy....
anyway, sanding it with a rough grit just gives the glass pores/grooves to hold on to...

I tried it with mat too but I can basically like peel the mat off after it has dried.

you wont be "peeling" mat....even one layre of mat will be too stif to peal, you could maybe pop it off or chip it....
i still dont understand what you are trying to do... i thought yo uwhere going to use your doors as a mold to make a custom panel...

yea thats what am trying to do. But when I do mak a mold of the stock panel, how would it fit by the window