Want to fiberglass just the front of the enclosure

[bcarpenterfhl 10+ year member]

i wanted to fiberglass just the front of my enclosure, then carpet the rest. i was just wondering how much it would all cost. i wanted to paint it, so i guess i'll need body filler too.

also, i saw a guy on here who did this for his W7, but i forgot who. he has a sound domain page? does anyone know who this was?

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[Gauntlet 5,000+ posts]

That doesn't make any sense. You want to fiberglass the front, carpet it, and paint it?

 

[DBfan187 5,000+ posts]

That doesn't make any sense. You want to fiberglass the front, carpet it, and paint it?

I think he wants to glass the front baffle and carpet the rest of the box?

 

[bcarpenterfhl 10+ year member]

I think he wants to glass the front baffle and carpet the rest of the box?

exactly, sorry for the lack of clarity

 

[BiaBia 10+ year member]

Wow that might look gay //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/frown.gif.a3531fa0534503350665a1e957861287.gif

 

[bcarpenterfhl 10+ year member]

it wont, the one i saw for the w7 looks bad ***. it's also going in a VW bug, so gayness really isnt an issue. Doesnt really get any gayer than that, besides a mazda miata of course.

speaking of gay nice sig.

 

[BiaBia 10+ year member]

No, you're gay

 

[joeldirt 10+ year member]

Wow that might look gay //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/frown.gif.a3531fa0534503350665a1e957861287.gif

I think it would look tight. you havent really said a single inteligent thing this entire thread, but its cool. any way in reply of this thread I think if you had access to a pocket hole jig you could make that look really smooth. If you make your front baffle square with the box, you could then mount your ring, stretch the fabric over it, fiber glass it, sand and body fill it, and then paint it..... mean while pocket holes drilled arround the perimeter of the fornt of the box where the baffle mounts, you could then mount the baffle with the glue and screws and carpet the rest of the box. I am sure that would turn out really sharp and extreamly clean. are you porting it or leaving it seled? (pocket hole jigs are about 25 bucks. handy tool if you build boxes often.) or you could just spend 1200 bucks and get a pneumatic stand one. I never thought about trying fiberglas and carpet all in the same aplication, but if I were to try it, thats how I would go about it. the fiberglass would probably be built up high enough so that when you mount the baffle, it would have a small lip which would meet flush wiht the carpet. maybe I only make sense in my own head. I dont know.

 

[joeldirt 10+ year member]

oh yeah I wasnt trying to tell you how to do it, I was just brainstorming I guess. How did you plan on doing it?

 

[bcarpenterfhl 10+ year member]

its going to be ported. i'd make the box first, as if i werent glassing. then i'd stack 3-4 MDF rings on top of one another. I would cut 3/4 wooden dowels in half (making a semi circle) and place them around the edge of the box and port for so there arent really any flat spots when i put on the fleece. Then i'd glass, bodyfill, prime, and spray paint (do i need a clear coat after?), then carpet the rest of the box. how does that sound?

oh yea, price range for the resin, fiberglass, and bodyfiller?

 

[jtomsic 5,000+ posts]

limitkid7, had something like this but it was done with fermica(sp?)

 

[chevy6998 10+ year member]

its going to be ported. i'd make the box first, as if i werent glassing. then i'd stack 3-4 MDF rings on top of one another. I would cut 3/4 wooden dowels in half (making a semi circle) and place them around the edge of the box and port for so there arent really any flat spots when i put on the fleece. Then i'd glass, bodyfill, prime, and spray paint (do i need a clear coat after?), then carpet the rest of the box. how does that sound?
oh yea, price range for the resin, fiberglass, and bodyfiller?

the resin, half gal, 15$

body filler, quart size, 8$

fiberglass facric, 10$

paint, 10$

sand paper, 10$

 

[req 5,000+ posts]

how about this. build the box without a baffle. figure you will gain a few tenths of a cube when you glass, so lets say you build a 1.0 cubic foot box with no baffle. you will want your port made for ~1.2 cubes. so figure that in when you make the port... also - extend the port PAST the front of the box so that its flush with the baffle for the sub... and then round the edges of the box there too (look on the corners of the port and stuff in the picture). heres a picture of what i mean-

i think that has potential to look really sharp, specailly with a paintjob. and you can even do the same thing on the top, but keep the top piece of MDF on there, and make a removeable amprack - maybe cut the same top piece as the box from 1\2" MDF, and make an amp rack up there, and just set it on top of the box?

this is similar to what im going to be doing with my tempest.

 

[req 5,000+ posts]

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[Acidburn 5,000+ posts]

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