how to fiberglass? unique whips style?

taking what you saw on a 30 minute tv program (22 minutes without commercials)  then subtract 20 minutes of Stupid Will Castro yelling at his employess. your left with a quick 2 minute fast forward of a box build. not the best video for studiying! lol   screw unique    when the show first started they didnt even do any fiberglass!  and now with the popularity of the show reme had to step his game up!   if you really want to know how to efficiently build a strong fiberglass box there is a whole forum here for your browsing! 

anyways the thickness of your fiberglass is everything. the one layer of fleece that you first stretch on to your frame can be used as the final outside layer of the box if you want. just reinforce it from the back( by not siliconeing the back wood part of the box you can get to the inside of the fg easily.  you can just place strips of ur mat or kitty hair or whatever.  just make it thickif you want to  layer it on the outside of the box thats fine to. it will just take more sanding to make the box pretty.     heres a what not to do story

a week ago my buddy dropped of his 1970 impalla convertible (painted money green with airbrushed flames)  it alredy had a ghetto installed system of decent quality.  i pop the trunk and theres 2 MTX 9500 15s in a fiberglassed box.   i got a freind to help me pull it out and removed the subs.   i found the fiberglass box consisted of 2 35x35 boards spaced 2 inches apart to form a port.  then the frame of the wood had regular black box carpet stretched on it with 1 (one) layer of fiberglass painted on the outside of the box the inside of the carpet was still fuzzy!  2 gigantic subs in a flimsy ass box with a random size port under it all...  lame 

me and my freind folded the box up like a sandwich and tossed it in the trash.

I agree that watching a 30 minute show will not teach one how to install, however, there are a few tid-bit shots that you see Reme do, that make you go "hmmm, interesting."  One thing to keep in mind is that the guys at Unique have insanely tight schedules.  Things you'd see other shops taking 3 - 4 weeks on, these guys push out in 3 -4 days.  Insane.  When I first started watching those guys I was thinking, "man, you just can't turn out a quality product in that short of period."  But after I met the guys at the last two SEMA shows, I have a new found respect for the guys at Unique.  Besides, do you think the highest level of clientel let them get away with shoddy work?

I PRESENT TO THE JURY THE CASE OF: orlando browns f 550

google orlando brown unique whips and you see plenty of pics of their "quality" work.

believe me NO PERSON CAN DO A PROFESIONAL JOB IN THAT AMOUNT OF TIME!  unless of course their simply mounting rims to a car and adding a "unique" license plate then shinning the rims with whatever product paid for the advertising.  god i hate advertising.

i dont hate TV installers, we only see 1% of their work but i can gaurantee none of them are at a level above any other installer with 10+ years of expirience.  i have 8 yrs btw lol   im so sick of telling people what i do for a living and they reply "like pump my ride?"

lol i hear ya

im pretty sure the "judges" are product reps.  im sure they just list any installers names they can think of! lol

lilbenny wrote:

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so ive been watching unique whips on the speed channel.. and i was studying how they build their fiberglass boxes..

now watching remy (head installer) if you notice when he makes his boxes he gets the structure and covers it with fleece. then he resins the fleece. after that he applys body filler then sands it out..

is that the correct way? that would save so much time and money but is that layer efficient enough? III thought, once the fleece is resin'd you apply the fg mat/cloth THEN body filler over that..

any input?

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whiterob wrote:

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What I always do is take the fleece to get the shape. I use thin fleece because it is just for making the shape so there is no use in using a lot of resin. Then I add more and more layers of fiberglass mat. That is where you get your strength from. I would be surprised if unique whips didn't do this.

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About the list reme is on...you might be referring to the one on the show that they were showing off.  Not sure if it's just a promotional thing, but I'm pretty sure he's on the list of the country's Master Installers which is a fairly short list in itself.

layzboy wrote:

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About the list reme is on...you might be referring to the one on the show that they were showing off.  Not sure if it's just a promotional thing, but I'm pretty sure he's on the list of the country's Master Installers which is a fairly short list in itself.

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lilbenny wrote:

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so ive been watching unique whips on the speed channel.. and i was studying how they build their fiberglass boxes..

now watching remy (head installer) if you notice when he makes his boxes he gets the structure and covers it with fleece. then he resins the fleece. after that he applys body filler then sands it out..

is that the correct way? that would save so much time and money but is that layer efficient enough? III thought, once the fleece is resin'd you apply the fg mat/cloth THEN body filler over that..

any input?

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hottwhyrd wrote:

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I PRESENT TO THE JURY THE CASE OF: orlando browns f 550

google orlando brown unique whips and you see plenty of pics of their "quality" work.

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Did some digging and couldnt find anything...?

There's an episode, before Will has his painter, when he sends a box out to get painted.  When the painter has the box, he is explaining the process and one thing he mentions is that he has to sand the box down because of the fiberglass matting, then bondo over that and resand, blah, blah, blah.  So this episode shows quite clearly that Reme isn't a douche and uses the necessary fiberglass matting and at least more than one layer.

It all comes down to personal feelings for another shop.  I can speculate all day long what a crappy job my competition in town are doing, but until I have the concrete evidence to support it, then it's just hot air.  Everyone here bases their opinion on the very little information you see on TV.  Do you beleive what you see on TV?  Come on here folks.  Editing is the key.  If you think that the producers show a majority of the work involved then you can also make the judgement that Will never gets paid.  How many times have you seen a client hand over money for payment? NEVER. lol.  Free work is awesome.

I've met Reme, seen his work in real life, at Sema.  And if you think that you can plunk down two 12W7's in a fiberglass box made up of only fleece and resin, without destroying itself, you are a sad, sad little man...er. person.  You have my pity.

I'll look for the episode I was refering to, my boss has all the episodes on his DVR. 

rival904 wrote:

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hottwhyrd wrote:

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I PRESENT TO THE JURY THE CASE OF: orlando browns f 550

google orlando brown unique whips and you see plenty of pics of their "quality" work.

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Did some digging and couldnt find anything...?

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