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John making some mounts out of 2x4’s





I think this looks like Wall-E



Just about ready for fleecing



Added and wired up my power supply







Arms for the trunk lid bars to go through and add structural support



Taping off the areas where we do not want the resin and glass to stick to





Taping off the bumper



Starting to stretch the fleece. Yes it is ladybug patterned with pink!!!! Lol it was what was on sale and it is better for us being bright colored so that we can see where the resin has soaked in and where it has not



Rough stretch



Time to staple







Openings are stapled off

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Let’s resin!









Took the piece out to add structural support with some good old bondo



Making repairs and adding layers



John had a disagreement with the razor blade while cutting the fleece lol. The fleece won!



Adding some glass to add structural support





Things are starting to take shape



Cutting more excess fleece off



More bondo



Lots of taking off and putting back in during this process





Test, fit, sand, test, fit, sand!

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Adding more layers to add more shapes



John sanding away



Almost there



Starting to see the final shape





Prepping for some fiberglassing work



Took the stock carpeted panel that is under the trunk deck where the light goes and glassed it into the front face window







Starting to adhere



Had some resin left over so we reinforced the side panels





Cured enough to start building up

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Now you get the idea? The slope will match both side panels and create a fluid line in the trunk



Building up the sides to match the side panels



Bondo matching the inner lip up top



Smoothing out





Testing



More building up





Getting there with the shape



More test fitting











Nice shape

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More test fitting





More bondo matching





That’s the shape we were looking for

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Fitting



Opened up



Working on the corners a little more to make the panels easier to wrap





Cut out measured for my PS3 to go in



We are going to paint and wrap everything behind the panels with black paint or black carpet









First coat of primer on







Primer dried and sanded







Got to use one of our Arc Audio molds for the face panel

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Mixed up some bondo and resin





Spread out the mixture to fill in the mold





Let the mixture cure and sanded off the excess







With a little coaxing the mold was ready to take off









Final coat of primer for the panels







Ready for glue and vinyl

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Starting to look good





Test fit on the box





Got a list going now lol





















Took all the panels out and started trimming off the spare tire hub

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Drilled out some holes for the fans to cool the compressor housings





Got these nifty little fans.











Added an Arc Audio XXD2080 Amplifier to power the PS3’s audio





Some ideas for the air ride equipment bay









Something like this?



Time to mount the compressors and laminate the housings

Painted the filter element housings of the compressors black



Triple black gloss laminate



All mocked up and ready to go



Drilling out some holes for lines, wire, and fans

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Gluing on the fans











All glued up



Test fit the compressors one final time





Clean and simple





X’s 2





With the trim panel over it





Getting more work done

Carbon fiber vinyl on the bottom floor





Mount for one of the tanks

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Making the raised box for the VU4 housing











Put together









Tank mounted





Test fit





Rear tank in







Making sure everything is level





Making of the trim panel



All wrapped up

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Frank helped me out with the polishing of the plexiglass for the bottom trim panel with window












Getting all the fitting tightened



Added water traps







Almost ready

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Got some spare polyfill so I used it all to fill in the rest of my trunk lid









Got this screen courtesy of Audiovox for our trunk lid build





For what we are doing this required some dismantling



Scott trying to pull a fast one



John making a trim ring for the monitor



It’s going to look something like this



Time to tape it all up



Let’s sling some glass



Trunk lid mold almost done





Popped the mold off and time to trim





Had to extend some wires to make the monitor work the way we wanted



John soldering away

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All soldered up and cleaned up



The dismantled remnants of the monitor and its guts







Framing up





Housing for the monitor and some of the motherboard





The screen should sit about here



Don’t you look at me in that tone of voice! – John lol



John ninja’d me one night and came up after hours and fleeced the piece without me there so this is what we had in the morning! Super progress





All trimmed up



Need more trimming

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More building up





Looking good right there















Making sure everything is level



John doing some bondo matching









Getting there