a lil fiberglass fun

[YokotaS13]

dont have any pictures of me doing it last night, i framed it and layed the fleece last night and glassed it this morning after going to wal-mart and hten lowes for more staples.


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i have another layer of glas to go and then im going to blend in the edges, the guy that im doing it for is gonna sande it etc, but it will look good when its done, he wanted to relocate the head unit for guage purposes in his 280z. I love his car lol

Hit me up if you need a box, console etc

[topsecret2JZ]

so where is that piece goin?

[YokotaS13]

its actually the glovebox from a datsun 280z, its upside down in that pic, but he moved the Headuint over for his boost, egt, and oil temp guages. he just asked me to do that for him.

[topsecret2JZ]

cool cool, could you make a box for a 12 in the trunk of a supra?

[YokotaS13]

of course
But it also depends on how elaborate you want it
TO make a simple one i can build either a shared, or individual airspace box, and instead of a flat face, glass it out and then you can trim the sides on teh box even to whatever. It really depends on what you want.

[THEONE]

a little sanding and some bondo and some more sanding then primer and some more sanding then paint and that should look pretty good.

[topsecret2JZ]

dunno ill pm you if i decide on what i want or something

[YokotaS13]

yeah im not doin all that shit lol. I actually had to go buy the jigsaw to do that.

I have all my fiberglass and woodworking tools at home
I have a dremel, dewalt drill, and a Nice black and decker jigsaw (im a fan of their jigsaws lol) Thats all it took to do that, and a bunch of staples and 4 screws

the guys going to do the finihs work, im jsut doing that, saved him around 200 bucks.

[YokotaS13]

just put the second coat on thick to try and smoothe it out a bit on teh edges nad blend to plastic. It should be done in a bit and ill mount the cage nad stereo in it and take some pics

[YokotaS13]

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some rough sanding, done with glass, and its outta my hands now, dropped it off to the owner.

[ProjectWidow]

looks nice! cant wait to see the final product.

[YokotaS13]

i wont even see it, he has to finish putting his engine back together, balance it, put in the turbo wiring harness, paint the engine bay, finish the head, run piping for turbo and instlal engine, tape up new harness etc etc. 6 months befor ehe finishes at least. Its his other play car. He wants to do the finishing work on it, thats as far as you will see it go on my part. but im gonna do a box for my girls 4dr Civic soon.

[SwiftGTiRacer]

Grant, i didn't know you could fiberglass like that. Nice work man! I might have to hit you up some time for my next car.

Swifty

[YokotaS13]

lol i told you when you were doing yours i could. I did the box in my jeep and had a lil assistance on my box in the sol because i didnt know hos to inset the speaker so the glass would come up around it.

[Directech]

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmk

[Spyder]

thats your version of finished? wow.. ok :)

[Pher]

Nice black and decker jigsaw (im a fan of their jigsaws lol)
You should have gotten a Bosch. I was a trim carpenter for about 2 years and that thing was my best friend!

[YokotaS13]

ive used a few from craftsman to dewalt etc, i just liek the erginmocs and ability to do tight work with my black n decker, ive never used a bosch though

[YokotaS13]

thats your version of finished? wow.. ok :)
guess you didnt read hte rest of the thread...wow.

[Spyder]

guess you didnt read hte rest of the thread...wow.

yea i did i read every word of it, that is why i surprised it was left in that condition.. but whatever works, as long as the customer was happy :)

[YokotaS13]

he didnt pay for it, i did it as a favor, and he said not to worry about finish sanding and painting, he wanted to do it. I thought said that somewhere

[YokotaS13]

i counted 3 times i said he is going to do the finishing work, so i gues syou didnt read it that well

[B16a2 Civic]

no, he was saying the part you finished for him...i would have to agree with him, but if that guys likes it, go for it

[Spyder]

i counted 3 times i said he is going to do the finishing work, so i gues syou didnt read it that well

we just had a different version of "finishing work" thats cool.. no problem :)

[YokotaS13]

finishing work is normally defined as sanding, bondo and primer and paint