My Honda Element Build

Installed a second battery and a power supply to run the vehicle at SEMA.



Started assembly.





You'll notice the rear seat belts are still in place. This is because I got impatient and wanted it assembled now to cruise. My other plans would have me tearing it all back down again anyway.

 

Thanks man! Oh yeah, I still build. And I have a lot of other vehicles I can post. After I finish up this one I'll start up another thread.

 

For business mainly, but I'm trying to build a shop here at home this summer so I can try to make it fun again. Lol!

 

Man it could vary from 400 in labor to 15k. It depends on how much of the car you want to change and how much time you're going to give to do it. When you're ready to do it, we'll just have to sit down sketch out some stuff and do some interior renderings. That install in the Element was done in one month. I would have gotta about 6k just in labor for that install (you haven't seen it all yet.) Not counting the stuff I did to the exterior.

Oh- I live in Oklahoma. Stillwater area.

 

I've done something like that before, fairly cheap too. I have thousands of photos to go through, I'll see if I can find it.

 

Lol! I don't have one in a BMW, but I once did a 10 cubic ft box with a 300 cubic inch port in a 2-door Toyota Corolla GTS coupe.

 

So this is where I removed the fiberglass shell, to do my rear fill pods and rear fill amps. This is also where I removed the rear seat belts and built filler panels for their holes.

Decided to put the amps in the rear side glass. Started with some steel tubing.





Trimmed the plastic for the tubing.



Decided to do a cross bar.







Removed the bar for finish welding.



Had to split the bar into two to make it removable from the vehicle. Welded a smaller diameter tube into one of the ends for a centering pin. Then drilled and tapped it for bolts to hold it all together.



Mounts for the amps and the speaker pods.



Sent it off for powdercoating, and made a buckle to hide the seam in the bar.



Installed.

 

So I wanted to build floating pods for the rear fill. That could swivel out the back of the vehicle at shows. We have a vac-form machine here so all I had to do was make tooling for the machine.

These just wood circles stacked on one another. Reducing in size to make a cone shape. And Duraglass to smooth it all out. The raised sections are just solid duraglass sculpted with rasps when the duraglass started to "green".





And this is the plastic vac-formed pieces.



The one on the left has the front face panel attached and some body work done. The other is the finished product.

 

Right after I painted them I decided I didn't like the way the colors flowed with the rest of the install. So I repainted them. I'm very picky. But these are my rear fill speakers.





And they swivel to fire out the back of the Element.