**Our Fiberglass Worklog** - 56K please beware (lots of pics)

[baseballer1100 5,000+ posts]

badass looks awesome.

 

[billabongcr 5,000+ posts]

6 layers of paint and 6 layers of clear?

cars only get 3 or 4 max of paint and 2-3 of clear. but nice.

after you cleared/wetsanded..did you buff them? //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[Goldtaz1 10+ year member]

the enclosures look great specially for a first time fiberglass'ers. shit even if you wheren't a first timer, it looks great.
just a bit of a pointer for the next time you glass, to make sanding easier and better looking, specially for large panels like those, is best to get a large flexible sanding block. where you can stick a large piece of sand paper or a couple small ones and use that large surface to sand the panel, that will provide you with a nice even sanding surface and the end result wont have any waves at all. rather then using the smaller pads for sanding.

obviously the more fiberglass work you do the faster you're going to do it and the better overall results you'll have.

again great job guys. keep it up.

Thank you very much for the tip. We did a lot of research on the net, but there's just no substitute for talking to people that have experience. Thank you for the kind compliments and the helpful tip.

 

[Goldtaz1 10+ year member]

Great job. The yellow looks too bright though, the silver looks fine matching the car but yellows soo bright. The box looks **** good, I like how it sits flush back in the trunk. What's the reason you guys flared out the subwoofer? Anyhow figured u guys were using same box, minus well go with same sub //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif Nice job.

Yellow matches the car dude //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/veryhappy.gif.fec4fed33b4a1279cf10bdd45a039dae.gif ??? The reason the woofer is flared out is just because we've never attempted something like this before and wanted to break out of our normal rectangle box building patterns.

 

[blackbonnie 5,000+ posts]

turned out great i see. paint is a match, i really like the trim pieces around the box

 

[Goldtaz1 10+ year member]

since no one has asked yet...who is louder??

Definitely not the point of this build, but as of right now the yellow one is louder. Hatchback generally > trunk car.

 

[jeeper07 5,000+ posts]

nice job for ur first time.. looks like u coulda done a BIT more sanding but with the way u surrounded them with carpet the job looks really good. it looks like in one of the pictures the edges on the back of the enclosure didnt meet up just the picture maybe?? very nice ive been there and done what u guys are doing i know its a pain. NICE

 

[billabongcr 5,000+ posts]

the enclosures look great specially for a first time fiberglass'ers. shit even if you wheren't a first timer, it looks great.
just a bit of a pointer for the next time you glass, to make sanding easier and better looking, specially for large panels like those, is best to get a large flexible sanding block. where you can stick a large piece of sand paper or a couple small ones and use that large surface to sand the panel, that will provide you with a nice even sanding surface and the end result wont have any waves at all. rather then using the smaller pads for sanding.

obviously the more fiberglass work you do the faster you're going to do it and the better overall results you'll have.

again great job guys. keep it up.

also, wetsanding over dry sanding. i like drysanding better, you see more of what it going on, but with wetsanding you can do like 6x more sanding on the same paper.

did you have any dirt nibbs in your clear? razor blade straight up and down rub that side to side across the dirt, itll take it out, leaving like a white scrape on the surface. sand those scratches out with 1000-1500 and they will buff out like no tomorrow. we do it after every car we paint cuz our booth filters are dirty..comes out better than a mirror

 

[Goldtaz1 10+ year member]

6 layers of paint and 6 layers of clear?
cars only get 3 or 4 max of paint and 2-3 of clear. but nice.

after you cleared/wetsanded..did you buff them? //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

Like I said in the original post, we do realize that the paint and clear was total overkill, but after you pay $25 for one 11.5 oz can of spray paint that matches the car we just simply said "What the hell!!!"

When we were finishing them up we rubbed them with a turtle wax buffing compound, buffed that off, used some 3M compound to shine, then waxed them with 2 layers of Zymol car wax.

 

[billabongcr 5,000+ posts]

Like I said in the original post, we do realize that the paint and clear was total overkill, but after you pay $25 for one 11.5 oz can of spray paint that matches the car we just simply said "What the hell!!!"

very true..i go to tech school for painting. i just mix up whatever color i want and however much clear i want, sign out a spray gun for the night and walk out the door.

 

[Rictamilk 10+ year member]

Absolutely amazing looking and great attention to detail. Those are boxes you would see in a movie or something keep it up!

 

[Decipha 10+ year member]

nice

 

[Calikid 5,000+ posts]

so whats the website for the paint??

 

[troy_audi0 10+ year member]

Very cool.. nice and eazy but looks killer..

Props X2

Peace Troy

 

[Goldtaz1 10+ year member]

so whats the website for the paint??

I have sent a message to my buddy to remind him to get the info for you. He should be updating this thread shortly.