door panels?
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Forum Name: Fiberglass, Fabrication, and Interiors
Forum Discription: Fiberglass Kick Panels, Subwoofer Enclosures, Plexiglas, Fabrics, Materials, Finishes, etc.
URL: https://www.the12volt.com/installbay/forum_posts.asp?tid=37786
Printed Date: April 30, 2024 at 7:31 PM
Topic: door panels?
Posted By: jmartinez
Subject: door panels?
Date Posted: August 20, 2004 at 12:25 AM
Ok heres the deal... im a rookie fabricator... done some stuff to my S-10... pics posted.... right now i am currently on the doors.... as it is door panels for some reason are always tricky... my proplem is that i have no ideas.... im shot... basically if anyone has any shots of any wicked door panels that they like to share and some advice on doing doors please help me out.... here is my first try at something... my dash....
 and here are my crossover mounts for my 6.5's and tweeters that are in the doors....
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Posted By: jmartinez
Date Posted: August 20, 2004 at 12:36 AM
oh hey sorry but by the way... im not looking to steal anybody's ideas... or copy their stuff.... that would be the ultimate sin... I just need a little motivation to get my mind going..... -thanks
Posted By: Velocity Motors
Date Posted: August 20, 2004 at 7:45 AM
Go to Cardomain.com and go through all the audio set ups of other peoples vehicles. Endless ideas for you. You can integrate various different aspects from other peoples installs for your own.
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Jeff
Velocity Custom Home Theater
Mobile Audio/Video Specialist
Morden, Manitoba CANADA
Posted By: vdubmk4
Date Posted: August 20, 2004 at 11:08 AM
For ideas and mainly tips go and check out some of the factory cars by Alpine and JL Audio, they have pics that show the whole install process and have little paragraphs written up about each picture of what they are doing. Good luck.
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Fortune: You will continue to take chances, and be glad you did.
Posted By: jmartinez
Date Posted: August 21, 2004 at 1:24 AM
Hey Folks... Started my door panles today... never found any inspiration anywhere but just started cutting some boards and ended up goin with what you see here... not much to look at yet... early stages and all but hopefully itll work out nicely.... 
well that at the end of today... hopefully i can finish up the framing and get some glass on it tommorrow though.... -J
Posted By: defective
Date Posted: August 21, 2004 at 1:38 PM
like the nice plug work man.... also watch that window crank spacing, the crank might contact the panel near the tweet or mid, looks close from the pics. Also how are you gonna plug with near the handle? anyway looks sick. Post when you get more pics. -------------
Posted By: vdubmk4
Date Posted: August 21, 2004 at 2:37 PM
Wow, nice work, i can already see it commin together, mmmm.
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Fortune: You will continue to take chances, and be glad you did.
Posted By: jmartinez
Date Posted: August 21, 2004 at 11:42 PM
Heres todays work... i didnt get a whole lot done today.... its started raining on me out of now where... i managed to get resin on one door though... and half on the other.... its hard to tell whats goin on in the pic with the resin... but here they are non the less.... 
Thats today... well see how tomorrow goes.....
Posted By: r0yal
Date Posted: August 21, 2004 at 11:52 PM
OooO, Its good to see you have faith in yourself, just to rip your door panels apart... lol... whenever I do a project, I ALWAYS find some used ones, and work from there. haha... lookin good so far tho..
Posted By: jmartinez
Date Posted: August 22, 2004 at 12:31 AM
oh yeah..... its not that i didnt think to get spares... i was already at the junk yard pullin em off a wrecked s-10... but then i though to myself... na.... it just give me a way to back out of the project... so i walked empty handed... plus... i wasnt gonna do that much work to them... but i got "jigsaw happy" so to speak... -J
Posted By: r0yal
Date Posted: August 22, 2004 at 11:36 AM
HAHAHAHAHAHA funny, but true... well, good luck with them, and keep us posted with pics!! lol
Posted By: r0yal
Date Posted: August 24, 2004 at 5:19 PM
Comeon Boy! lol..wheres your UPDATE PICS!! haha just playin
Posted By: dangerranger96
Date Posted: August 25, 2004 at 5:08 PM
yeah wheres the pics, it was looking really good
Posted By: jmartinez
Date Posted: August 25, 2004 at 10:56 PM
sorry fellas... the rain really kicked my butt this weekend... yeah know that kinda off and on... sun opens up and spits out death rays... then closes up and rains.... it really got me... i managed to only get resin on the driver side since last time.... it sucked... when i was workin i had just mixed me up a batch of resin and no sooner then i got it all stirred up did it start to sprinkle on me... so i slapped on the goo and shut the door... it really really sucked because my truck now reaks a horrible stank... hopefully 2morrow is good though and i can get back to it at full swing... but I promise ill get updates up as soon as i get some work done.... cause i saw need sound back in my ride!!! -J
Posted By: bp_viper
Date Posted: August 28, 2004 at 10:53 PM
get her back together yet? lookin good. i have thought about doin my doors.....hesitant though, dont know where to start.
Posted By: jmartinez
Date Posted: August 30, 2004 at 2:08 PM
allright ppl i have a few things to say... "F" spray adhesive!!!! completely screwed me over and set me days back... and second... now that i have gotten going again... id like to say that i hate body work... ha... but thank god for orbital sanders... they are awesome... i would definetly have to say that if i were ever stranded on a deserted island as long as you left me with my sander id be happy... no anyways.. yeah some problems with some spray adhesive set me back a little and then the rain did not help me out at all... it has raind both of these past weekends so i havent been able to get much done. right now im gettin close to done i think... my driver side door is all bondo'ed glazed and ready for primer but i still have some work on the passenger side... it was affected by the spray more... on top of everything id also like to mention that my psu in my machine went out a couple days back... what luck... well non the less here is a pic of one of my doors as of last night... its comin along... slowly but still... well we'll see what happens today.... 
-J
Posted By: jmartinez
Date Posted: August 30, 2004 at 2:09 PM
Posted By: r0yal
Date Posted: August 30, 2004 at 2:43 PM
Your just addin a component set of speakers in the doors, nothing crazy fancy like screens? lol jk. It looks wicked so far d00d. For those last 2 pics that didnt show up, you forgot to add .jpg to the end of em :) keep up the good work!
Posted By: phatx96xaccord
Date Posted: August 31, 2004 at 1:38 AM
hey. i am new to the fiberglassing also. currently i am fiberglassing my rear deck where my 6x9s go and also my door panels. i also want to do my head liner. i would also like to do the plastic trim on my dash. but i dont know how i will do it. i have a 96 accord that im doing this all to. i am almost done with all the glassing on the rear deck, hoping to do my final sand in the morning. my plans on the door panels was to strip all the vinyl off them, wrap them in fleece, resin, glass etc. i am adding 6 by9s to the front doors and 5 1/4s to the rear doors. also i am adding tweeters to the upper part of the front doors. i started an upper panel for a door tonight all ready had it fleeced. its going kinda ruff its not really setting up the way i would like. the edges are a pain in the butt. ive read a lot on glassing. ive read that fiberglass wont stick to plastic. i did a little test spot on a door panel. i was able to get fiberglass to stick to the plastic door panel.(the plastic which is the base of the door, under where all the vinyl goes) so what i might do is just try to glass over the plastic instead. i think it might work, it will make it cleaner looking also. lets see what happens. i had a question for you Jmartinez. How did you go about fiberglassing that part of your dash?
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would u like your chicken original or extra crispy?
Posted By: jmartinez
Date Posted: August 31, 2004 at 1:11 PM
hey looks like were on the same page... my headliner is next after my doors... and ive started on all my trim pieces to between bondo and paint drying... i want everything to be smooth... i dont want any of that textured plastic crap in my ride... but since you got me started on that... id like to ask a question now also... does anyone else know of a way to remove all the texturing from all plastic... Body filler? call me an idiot but i did start to use body filler and halfway through covering a piece i realized... IM AN IDOT... i forgot to sand.. so i just let it setup long enough so that i could peel it all off... question is though after sanding will the body filler stick to the plastic ok? as for my dash... after i did all the frame work... i just covered the whole thing in a fleece wraping it around the backside of the outside edges... then i just simply spread the resin over it all... i didnt actually have to use any fiberglass on it... after a real good first coat of resin it all setup pretty hard and i figured since its just a dash and it would be anything really taking any kind of bumps or anything of that nature i just hit again with a real heavy coat of resin and then some filler where it needed it and thats about all she wrote... hasnt fallen apart yet.... thats got to be good.. right? -J
Posted By: dangerranger96
Date Posted: August 31, 2004 at 2:48 PM
fiberglass resin will not stick to plastic, that is why i have been able to reuse the plastic cups that use to mix up my resin in, once it sets up, that stuff will come right off the plastic
Posted By: phatx96xaccord
Date Posted: August 31, 2004 at 10:21 PM
So far this fiberglass is sticking to the plastic door panels. as far as i know its plastic. i got pretty rought with the fiberglass to see how well its on there. its not budging, imm gonna go on ahead and mount the speaker rings and glass more of the door and see how it looks. currently on my rear deck, i did tons of sanding. still got more to do. there are several spots where i guess u would call it "pits". those things are driving me crazy. i was wandering if the high build primer will fill it in any. and also i was curious to know any places online to buy the high build primer, and also if u can get it in a spray can. i dont have a air compressor so that doesnt help. Mart. try to sand the plastic , maybe spray some primer on it and see how it holds. ------------- would u like your chicken original or extra crispy?
Posted By: nuentoter
Date Posted: September 07, 2004 at 9:59 AM
I don't know if you're done this project or not. but the pic you have of just your support pieces looks pretty cool. now for originality put a sheet of plexi glass on your door instead of flat and drop a neon light bar inside. Yes i am a computer case modder. but I think the idea would be great.
Posted By: jmartinez
Date Posted: September 14, 2004 at 12:52 PM
Hey folks i promise i didnt give up on the project... ive just been to busy to go and buy a PSU for my machine at home... back to college and all.... so yes i do have pics here they are... curves are suttle, but they are there.. really kinda what i was goin for seeing as i want the truck to look completely smooth on the inside. I also started my headliner this past weekend. i took a break from workin on friday though.. i wish i hadnt.. otherwise id be putting paint on it allready. but here are the pics of that so far. oh hey nuenoter.. i had kinda thought of put some neons in it somehow... but really didnt know how i wanted to incorporate them.. now afterwards thinkin about i realize what i should have done... too lat though.. DANG!. well anyways here are the pics.. ill try and get the finished headliner up as soon as it is ready... -J  
Fiberglass Resin 
Body Filler 
Bondo Sanded Down then Oval screwed down and edges bondo'd over. thats it.
Posted By: jmartinez
Date Posted: September 14, 2004 at 4:32 PM
Posted By: Alpine Guy
Date Posted: September 14, 2004 at 9:21 PM
your intense man! Without people like you we wouldn't have any cool stuff!
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2003 Chevy Avalanche,Eclipse CD7000,Morel Elate 5,Adire Extremis,Alpine PDX-4.150, 15" TC-3000, 2 Alpine PDX-1.1000, 470Amp HO Alt.
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