Hell with pods, FG door time!

[Ryan from Ohio]

Here we go again.

Take a look at your door panel.

Notice the crease between the gray and the black. Well right theres the problem for vinyl. If you cut that edge and dont have a place to fold it, the seams exposed.

Then it peals.

Also trying to get the vinyl to form where the arm rest is will be a huge issue. I will need heat formable vinyl. Thats $56 a yard... An error with it can be costly. Thats even if it will work for this application.

[cherrington17]

whats the alternative? bodyfill, paint the glassed area, then dye the rest to match? whats the changes of that turning out well?

could just finish glassing the whole door...

[Ryan from Ohio]

!never!!!! hahahahahahahaha

Carpet the gray area!

Im pretty sure Im going that route. If it doesnt turn out well then I will try the Vinyl.

[PappaSmurf]

Ryan,
Could you not take off the black top part (of YOUR car) and then run the vinyl under that, then reattach the black piece? That way you would still have the crease and then it would also look original and like it was supposed to be there.
Dont take this as stupidity, I have no clue when it comes to FG'ing, I am just trying to throw out ideas.
-Smurf-

[Ryan from Ohio]

Thats all one piece molded.

[Ryan from Ohio]

One down!



Sex on sails? Yes its true!

[Afugy]

Nice dude!

Have fun sanding! (thats the only part I don't like doing)

[Ryan from Ohio]

Originally Posted by Afugy

Nice dude!

Have fun sanding! (thats the only part I don't like doing)

^ see thats the finished sail panel...

That other pic you seen was it roughed in. I rough them in and test, then I bondo and glazed it before paint.

Ya sanding sucks. I use a 1/4 sheet sander though so not to bad.

When I goto do these its light coat of Bondo... Theres only a few wrinkles which can be fixed easy with the Bondo.

How did you make those sails they are very sexy

[Ryan from Ohio]

The component set I had at the time (Rainbow Profi) had a few different tweeter cup mounts.

I chose the surface mount one. I used a marker and a dremel tool with drum sander to get the whole right.

Then I Epoxied it up.

Then Bondo- sand.

Then Glazed- sand.

Then paint.

Here what it looked like after being roughed in:


The trick is to remove as little material as necessary. Then to bondo in just a fillet. If you use to much the texture gets weird...

[cherrington17]

those tweets do look really good. how are they mounted in the back?

[Ryan from Ohio]

Single screw dead center.