Fiberglassing New Doors

[Mark_ab 5,000+ posts]

Anyone have any good links on some "how to's" to make fiberglass door pods? Please and thanks guys.

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[MikeofTulsa Moderator]

Anyone have any good links on some "how to's" to make fiberglass door pods? Please and thanks guys.

http://www.carsound.com 's fabrication message board....very helpfull people on there.....

 

[ramos 5,000+ posts]

Alpine has some pretty informative pictures of the RSX

http://www.alpine-usa.com/html/D2_n_1_n_n.html

 

[Mark_ab 5,000+ posts]

Alpine has some pretty informative pictures of the RSX
http://www.alpine-usa.com/html/D2_n_1_n_n.html

True, but I don't want to construct a new door...just half of one //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

Any tips/advice Ramos?

 

[ramos 5,000+ posts]

It works pretty much the same. Just make sure the pods don't interfere with the window cranks or anything. Make sure they don't stick out to far and interefere with your driving. When you go to attach the panels. I found that 2 part epoxy plastic adhesive works very well for attaching fiberglass to plastic. It keeps you from having to drill all the holes in the plastic to get the resin to hold to the soft plastic. Other than that, draw everything out on paper before hand. make yourself sure of what your doing before hand. And buy alot of sandpaper //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif A wise man once said "fail to plan , plan to fail. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[Mark_ab 5,000+ posts]

It works pretty much the same. Just make sure the pods don't interfere with the window cranks or anything. Make sure they don't stick out to far and interefere with your driving. When you go to attach the panels. I found that 2 part epoxy plastic adhesive works very well for attaching fiberglass to plastic. It keeps you from having to drill all the holes in the plastic to get the resin to hold to the soft plastic. Other than that, draw everything out on paper before hand. make yourself sure of what your doing before hand. And buy alot of sandpaper //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif A wise man once said "fail to plan , plan to fail. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

Oh, I have more sandpaper than I can shake a stick at. I've fiberglassed everything but a door, and since it's a demo car, I don't want to screw it up //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

I've seen some pictures where the person stapled fleece right to the door and built it up from there. What do you think?

 

[captainobvious! 10+ year member]

That will work as well

You could cut your baffles and secure them in place with screws to the door. Then stretch your fleece/fabric over the baffles and staple it to the door. Then start fiberglassin away. I'm actually going to bebuilding the doors in my truck soon as well. =P

Need to put some IDQ8dvc's in there, and my Diamond 3-way HEX's in the corners of the dash...now THATS going to be a fiberglassing project !!

Good Luck bro !

 

[ramos 5,000+ posts]

Yeah that way works. I'm just from the old school man. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif That and I build golf clubs for a few local pro shops on the side. So I have a lot of epoxy glue laying around //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif It comes in handy. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

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[ramos 5,000+ posts]

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I wanted mike's thunderbird something fierce man. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif