boot install finished after 3 months

[richard cash]

really cracked on with it this week ready for japfest II. Finally got it done after countless hours of fibreglassing, sanding, shaping, reshaping, fitting, refitting and finally painting yesterday.

[interloper393]

Oooo nice m8, looks smart as fook lol.. have you any pics of the process up to it? i.e the building of it love doing stuff like this.. realy rewarding.. thumbs up..

[D2BBA]

Looking great fella!

Pat on the back for you.  One of the best installs yet, and home made too!

Chris:)

[shaunwil]

Awesome build, Done a little bit of fibreglassing on door pods and its a huge process to get something remotely near that quality !!!

Shaun

[pete sparrow]

Now thats impressive!!!:yes

[LRP]

wow im in progress and fibre glassing takes ages!!!!

[mikeyh]

very very nice set up m8

mines next is it??

lol

[richard cash]

hey mikey, i dont mind helping folks out but your, the other end of the world to me, lol. Im down in sunny, although not at the moment, Devon.

Anyway, heres some more details including some progress pics:

The install took me several months, as mentioned. Cost about £60 in total to make the surround so its not expensive but it is a long process. Id estimate that things needed doing on average about 5-8times to get a decent fit for everything. the most difficult part was getting the black mould around the wiper mechanism on the bootlid to clear the fibreglass, this took literally 10 or so hours just to get this right so it would shut. In total id say about 100hours went into this but i kept changing the style slightly as the install was progressing. heres some pics:

firstly i used expending foam to get a shape

[mikeyh]

very nice m8
does look like hard work think ill stick to simple installs

[Iain C]

very nice....top job

[interloper393]

did you do the whole thing in the boot? lol.. or did you just refit afterwards bud.. was wondering how they got the bloody shapes when the do things like this lol expanding foam!! bloody great idear lol.. i tryed using carboard.. didnt go to well lol.. but iv got meters n meters of the fiber glass cloth material so im gunna try your way and make something wonderfull

cheers bud, any tips of the trade that a help me ?

[prince_of_tokyo]

serious stuff m8

[shaunwil]

Wow, ive always expanded fabric over risers and then covered it in fibreglass resin to start the shape off.

Good place to readup on is http://www.talkaudio.co.uk/ in the forums.

Very interesting.

Shaun

[shafster]

nice one mate. saw yours at japfest today, looked tidy

[gadj]

That is an awsome looking install - rest of the inside from what I can see looks pretty smart as well. Colour works really well. Great job.