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<blockquote data-quote="req" data-source="post: 890775" data-attributes="member: 555713"><p>go to your local hobbyshop- get some GREEN FLORAL FOAM.</p><p></p><p>*make a mould of the corner of EACH kick panel with fiberglass like everyone does.</p><p></p><p>*mount your MDF ring (1\2" wood will work fine) with wooden dowels or chopsticks.</p><p></p><p>*now get some pantyhose or somthing stretchy. T-shirt material will work too... and stretch it over and hot-glue it in place</p><p></p><p>*mix up your epoxy resin with the hardener, and soak up your stretched fabric with it. dont forget to pour a little inside around the seam where it was stretched around (after it dries and you cut the speakerhole out of course)</p><p></p><p>*get your piece of carbon fiber ready, paint a really thin layer of resin, (make sure the surface is smooth as possible) and do your best to stretch it over the surface of your kick - getting a uniform pattern. (that is the hard part)</p><p></p><p>*try to get some CLEAR epoxy\urathane resin and hardener from somewhere, and put a generous coat on the surface of the carbon fiber. do as many layers of CF as you need.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.ebay.com" target="_blank">http://www.ebay.com</a> is great for carbonfiber sheets and clear epoxy resin (expensive, but thats what you get when you look at carbon fiber)</p><p></p><p>the ONLY beifit (weight ratio; ect) you will get from CF versus fiberglass in THIS particular applicaion - is looks. PERIOD.</p><p></p><p>a fiberglass kick panel, or a carbonfiber kick panel, they will both weigh like 3lbs (at most). and its - honestly - retarded to do it in CF unless you know what you are doing, its the only thing that matches your interio, its a showcar, or all three combined.</p><p></p><p>just do it in fiberglass and carpet it liek normal. because from this thread - i can tell you do not fall into those catagories.</p><p></p><p>here is a tutorial.</p><p></p><p><a href="http:////vb/showthread.php?t=38665" target="_blank">http://www.caraudio.com/vb/showthread.php?t=38665</a></p><p></p><p>once you ge to this part</p><p></p><p> </p><p>skip anything that involves putting fiberglass matt over the fleece\fabric. its seriously un-nessicary. i did mine wit hjust fleece, and i bashed it with a 5lb sledge hammer, and it did NOT want to break. thats just from resin on the fleece. and if you are going to carpet it, just sand it down smooth - and skip the bodyfiller.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="req, post: 890775, member: 555713"] go to your local hobbyshop- get some GREEN FLORAL FOAM. *make a mould of the corner of EACH kick panel with fiberglass like everyone does. *mount your MDF ring (1\2" wood will work fine) with wooden dowels or chopsticks. *now get some pantyhose or somthing stretchy. T-shirt material will work too... and stretch it over and hot-glue it in place *mix up your epoxy resin with the hardener, and soak up your stretched fabric with it. dont forget to pour a little inside around the seam where it was stretched around (after it dries and you cut the speakerhole out of course) *get your piece of carbon fiber ready, paint a really thin layer of resin, (make sure the surface is smooth as possible) and do your best to stretch it over the surface of your kick - getting a uniform pattern. (that is the hard part) *try to get some CLEAR epoxy\urathane resin and hardener from somewhere, and put a generous coat on the surface of the carbon fiber. do as many layers of CF as you need. [URL="http://www.ebay.com"]http://www.ebay.com[/URL] is great for carbonfiber sheets and clear epoxy resin (expensive, but thats what you get when you look at carbon fiber) the ONLY beifit (weight ratio; ect) you will get from CF versus fiberglass in THIS particular applicaion - is looks. PERIOD. a fiberglass kick panel, or a carbonfiber kick panel, they will both weigh like 3lbs (at most). and its - honestly - retarded to do it in CF unless you know what you are doing, its the only thing that matches your interio, its a showcar, or all three combined. just do it in fiberglass and carpet it liek normal. because from this thread - i can tell you do not fall into those catagories. here is a tutorial. [URL="http:////vb/showthread.php?t=38665"]http://www.caraudio.com/vb/showthread.php?t=38665[/URL] once you ge to this part skip anything that involves putting fiberglass matt over the fleece\fabric. its seriously un-nessicary. i did mine wit hjust fleece, and i bashed it with a 5lb sledge hammer, and it did NOT want to break. thats just from resin on the fleece. and if you are going to carpet it, just sand it down smooth - and skip the bodyfiller. [/QUOTE]
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