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

[Goldtaz1 10+ year member]

What’s up guys, I just wanted to show you a project that myself and cosmiccharlie worked quite extensively on and I am rather proud of the final result because this is the first time either one of us has ever done Fiberglass. Because of the amount of builds that we have every weekend, it took us roughly 2 months from start to finish, but the result is so nice and the boxes absolutely sound incredible. A fellow member, Bamaboy, has heard my 12 and he can definitely vouch for how loud and clean my system plays with just 400 watts on the sub. The boxes are a total of 5 layers thick, approximately ¼” thick, with 1 layer of fleece and 4 layers of woven fiberglass mat. If you have any other questions that I haven’t answered please don’t hesitate to ask myself or cosmiccharlie. Without further ado here are the pics.

We started by laying the foundation.

Fleece in place.

All resined up!!

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[Goldtaz1 10+ year member]

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We actually skipped taking pictures where we put down layer after layer of woven mat and went straight to when they were first sanded.

Bondo is definitely a good friend to have.

 

[Goldtaz1 10+ year member]

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Finally time to get into primer after getting the surface as wrinkle free as possible.

YEEHAAW!! Time for some paint. Paint that was chosen is the color that matches the color code on our cars. There is a place online that you can send them your paint code from your door jam and they will actually put your paint color in an aerosol can. Bet you wouldn’t have guessed these were painted with an aerosol can. HAHAHA!!

After 6 layers of paint and 6 layers of clear, plus some good ole wet sanding. Gotta love a little overkill.

In the car finally.

 

[Goldtaz1 10+ year member]

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My buddy Charles had to rebuild his floor because the stock floor was not what we wanted to have with such a nice install

Charles’ Scuby

 

[Goldtaz1 10+ year member]

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All trimmed out. Loving it.

I hope you guys enjoyed our build log. Let us know what you think about everything.

 

[cosmiccharlie 10+ year member]

Someone put a nice paint job on the enclosures! //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/up2something.gif.dd110ecf3ae4b76050d87598f2f8de7c.gif

I am very proud of how these turned out! I can't wait to get my car back from the paint shop so I can actully listen to mine!

 

[Bloodstalker999 10+ year member]

Great job they came out really good, Great Job

 

[nismos14 5,000+ posts]

Awesome! What site did u use to get the paint?

 

[Pl8er 5,000+ posts]

Those look great. About how much did it cost to build that? Would you build another? //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif

 

[cosmiccharlie 10+ year member]

Awesome! What site did u use to get the paint?

Thanks! I'll post the paint site tonight when I get home.

 

[expo5.0 10+ year member]

doesn't it look pretty wavy?

 

[cosmiccharlie 10+ year member]

doesn't it look pretty wavy?

Well, it isn't perfect but for our first crack at fiberglass I think we did pretty good!

 

[dumple 5,000+ posts]

they both look awesome

 

[expo5.0 10+ year member]

yes- very good job if it was your first time

the wood frame was done beautifully! Looks like you didn't feel like sanding toward the end. those wide curves like that can be very tricky.

 

[woodplock7 10+ year member]

hey it looks good to me nice job!