PICS of speaker pod and hatch area!

Hey all, just started working on my "interior beutification" project... Here's some pics of the start of my fiberglass speaker pod and some pics of the start of the floor for the back-seat/hatch area...

Picture of the sub-pod pieces after being cut from 3/4" MDF... The "peanut" shape will be the base of the pod:
http://files.automotiveforums.com/uploads/973860cutpieces.jpg

Pictures of the pieces being test-fit together. You can see the general shape of the pod taking place:
http://files.automotiveforums.com/uploads/653736testfit01.jpg
http://files.automotiveforums.com/uploads/751129testfit03.jpg

Pics of the pieces glued together from different angles:
http://files.automotiveforums.com/uploads/407277glued01.jpg
http://files.automotiveforums.com/uploads/831214glued02.jpg

Next step is to stretch the fleece and add resin. Then I'll re-inforce the inside with fiberglass matting, and reinforce the outside with fiberglass cloth, then sand/bondo. Then it'll be painted yellow to match the interior trim pieces. The subs (two 10" Kicker solobaric S10's) will be mounted inverted with the magnets outside the box...

Pictures of the hatch-are floor that I made. There is alot of clearance room underneath the rim/tire, and that's where I'm mounting my battery and 1 farad cap... Still in the process of making a template for another "floor" section where the back-seats used to be... that will be where the sub-pod will be mounted...
http://files.automotiveforums.com/uploads/785313hatch01.jpg
http://files.automotiveforums.com/uploads/332576hatch02.jpg

Hope you like. I'll post more pics as I progress...

P • E • A • C • E

Mike T.

Looking good, cant wait to see the completed project.

By the way, you are coming to the sep 14th klamath falls show, right?

YES! post your progress...! if it turns out good i might just have you make one for me :o)lol, i suck at fiberglass

Nice very nice :) Like Melt said... you coming on Sept 14th???

I hope I'll be there on the 14th... problem is, I want my girlfriend to come with me, but she has zero interest in my car (or anyone elses for that matter), so I know she won't have much fun if she does go (which means no fun for me either). If she stays home, then I'll probably end up feeling guilty for going without her...:bloated:

I'm going to do my best though... :sun:

Dont let her lay a guilt trip on you. Tell her this shit is important to you and if she expresses interest in coming, then let her and dont worry about it, and if she doesent wanna, dont trip about her staying home.

wow, that looks sweet...how did you outline your trunk so well? I did the same with mdf board but it doesnt sit aswell as I would like it to. :rolleyes:

In order to get the shape of the trunk, I bought a bunch of foam-board (It's like poster-board, but with a foam core, can be found at most craft-stores). Then, I kinda roughed out the basic shape and cut the foam-board pieces to match, then test-fitted and trimmed and test-fitted and trimmed, etc. Finally got the foam-board to match up, glued all the foam-board pieces together, and traced the outline to the MDF. Then just hacked away at it with my skill saw. The MDF fit almost perfectly the first time, just had to trim it up a little bit. Now, I'm trying to do the same thing for the back-seat area.

The floor will later be covered with grey vinyl.

my g/f is the same way. She never goes to car things with me. She has showed how shes not intrested in cars and she knows how much I am, so she doesnt stop me when I plan to go to shows and such ( I just need to stop taking pics of the models :) ), she wants me to be happy and have fun and thats all thats important to her, oh and that I hang out with her when I am not doing car stuff :D

Damn dood that's going to look tight.

It's about time I do sumthing like that. I have this sweet looking interior and a mess in the hatch of all my freekin audio equipment.

Oh i also blew my head unit. Does anyone have one to sell for cheap? I'm sick of having my treble cutting in and out.
The deck has to have a dedicated RCA sub output. Sounds much better that way :)

Thanks. I've been planning this project for a long long time, now I'm finally getting to work on it, and so far, all the planning has really paid off. (knock on wood)

Originally posted by 88CiViC_DX
my g/f is the same way. She never goes to car things with me. She has showed how shes not intrested in cars and she knows how much I am, so she doesnt stop me when I plan to go to shows and such ( I just need to stop taking pics of the models :) ), she wants me to be happy and have fun and thats all thats important to her, oh and that I hang out with her when I am not doing car stuff :D

At least you guys have g/f's, Im just a loner:(

i dont have a girlfriend either.......:mad:



i have a fionce...:D :D :finger: :D :D

yeah well my gf may not have liked car stuff but now she is starting to and she goes to shwos with me and enjoys them... and did i mention her dad is the coolest? he let me drive hsi harley truck and one day my gf drove her mom's audi tt and well i got to drive that to and it's so freaking sweet did i mention she baked me cookies and bought be gone in 60 seconds today b/c i just started hell week for football... 3 practices a day startign at 7:30 and ending at 5:30... :(

Originally posted by Melt


At least you guys have g/f's, Im just a loner:(

i used to be too, all through High school and even a year after.So I know the feeling.

ok i must know what size speakers/subs are going into that and where is that going? b/c it just doesn't work out in my mind

It will be two 10" Kicker Solobaric subs, and it will be going where my back-seat used to be.

anyways, I stretched the fleece on the pod today, and I took some pics, but they didn't come out well at all because I used a black colored fleece material... Here's one of the pics anyways:

http://files.automotiveforums.com/uploads/921336fleeced.jpg

Aha! I adjusted the brightness/contrast for a better picture:

http://files.automotiveforums.com/uploads/833017fleeced2.jpg

dude that looks sweet, wish i could do fiberglass work......


gunnmen01

what all do i need to fiberglass and where can i get it? i wanna give it a shot.... :-D

I took my car to some local car stereo shops to see if they would do my fiberglass for me, and they all wanted about $2000 for it. For about 1/4 that price, I can buy all the tools and materials, and I can do it my own damn self. So far, I've got everything I'll need, and I've only spent about $400 (mainly on the power-tools). So far, it's been pretty easy to do, but I've spent ALOT of time planning ahead and mapping things out...

All the fiberglass-specific materials can be bought at a local boating-supply store, everything else can be found at hardware stores and grocery stores. Shop around for prices though.

Basically, all you need is:

Fiberglass Resin
Fiberglass Hardener
Fiberglass cloth/matting
Mold release
Wood
Paint-brushes
Rubber Gloves
Mixing Pails
Masking Tape
Tin Foil
Power-tools (router, jigsaw, drill, Dremel tool, etc).
Hot glue gun
plastic squeegees
Acetone (to remove un-hardened resin from stuff)
Lycra or Fleece material (actually, I'm kinda wishing that I had used Lycra)
Sandpaper (lots of it)
Bondo (or other fairing filler)

That's about it... No everything here is an absolute necessity, but the more equipped you are, the easier the process is...

Here are links to all the web-sites that I've found on the subject:
http://www.diymobilesound.com/tutorials/fiberglass_kickpanels.htm
http://www.rtol.net/scornell/2002NI.htm
http://members.iinet.net.au/~nismo/subs.html
http://www.diysubwoofers.org/audiolinks.htm

Not alot of resources, but good enough for me.

how is it coming man... MORE PICS :D :apoke: just giving you a notice that living vicariously(sp) thought you is tough if i dont know what i am working on :p

Originally posted by ci5ic
I took my car to some local car stereo shops to see if they would do my fiberglass for me, and they all wanted about $2000 for it. For about 1/4 that price, I can buy all the tools and materials, and I can do it my own damn self. So far, I've got everything I'll need, and I've only spent about $400 (mainly on the power-tools). So far, it's been pretty easy to do, but I've spent ALOT of time planning ahead and mapping things out...

All the fiberglass-specific materials can be bought at a local boating-supply store, everything else can be found at hardware stores and grocery stores. Shop around for prices though.

Basically, all you need is:

Fiberglass Resin
Fiberglass Hardener
Fiberglass cloth/matting
Mold release
Wood
Paint-brushes
Rubber Gloves
Mixing Pails
Masking Tape
Tin Foil
Power-tools (router, jigsaw, drill, Dremel tool, etc).
Hot glue gun
plastic squeegees
Acetone (to remove un-hardened resin from stuff)
Lycra or Fleece material (actually, I'm kinda wishing that I had used Lycra)
Sandpaper (lots of it)
Bondo (or other fairing filler)

That's about it... No everything here is an absolute necessity, but the more equipped you are, the easier the process is...

Here are links to all the web-sites that I've found on the subject:
http://www.diymobilesound.com/tutorials/fiberglass_kickpanels.htm
http://www.rtol.net/scornell/2002NI.htm
http://members.iinet.net.au/~nismo/subs.html
http://www.diysubwoofers.org/audiolinks.htm

Not alot of resources, but good enough for me.

another great place for this stuff is http://www.tapplastics.com

Got some new pics, gonna start a new thread.