my build on my 04' monte carlo LS

upholster, i'm going to cover it in Vinyl, i'm almost ready to finish it up, I havn't had the weather. it's been nice today but I didn't really feel like working on it but it's going ot be even nicer tomorow so i'll try and finily finish it tommorow, i've lost allot of my modavation for this lol lost all of the momentum i had.

 

I've been held back by the weather, today was the first mildly acceptable day in a long time and i really didn't get anything done. i've begun preperations to vinyl it, but i'm having trouble figuring out how to do it.

but i'm done with the driver side, it just needs to be vinyl'd and it's done. I wasn't abble to finish bondoing out fills on the passenger side last time i was working on it, i goed snow'd out...i know snow -_- weathers crazy lately.

anyways...i mounted up the passenger side for the first time since I mocked it up with the ring. I have NO IDEA what happened but it happened in a good day, I know the one gentleman pointed out that if my air bag went off it would of hit pod, well apparently something happened..i have no idea, maybe when I was mocking it up i didn't have the trim piece all the way in and didn't realize it, but in the end they were exactly even and it worked out.

 

yeah now all i need to do is finish them lol i'm having some difficulty doing thus though as i'm pretty unexperienced or rather when it comes to wrapping these... completely unexperienced.

 

yeah, well i'm going to get a quote from a shop, gonna see what it's gonna run me i think i'm just gonna have to eat it and get it done, because this is how i want them to look and this is how I want vinyl, so yeah stiching is the only thing ive heard is the solution and ive seen some stich work from some of the really good guys and i must say...i don't think i have any kind of skill like them guys, not enough to get it looking the way I want it at least

i could fill it out on the passnger side like that but on the driver side if i filled it out like that' i would NEVER get the pods in lol if you look you can see my dash sits up a good 4-5 inches taller and tapers down towrds the corner.

 

ive come up with a solution thanks to some good guys over at diyma.com, one of the shop managers who frequent the site hooked me up with some info, he set me up with a link to a place to buy some synthetic suede flocking, spent 50$

 

progress!

i've come up with a solution, i've been informed of this method called "flocking" and i'll be doing a synthedic suede flocking, ive already ordered up the parts (for links you can PM me) I also cleaned up the ****ty paint attemp i made last weekend, and i'm in the middle of reaplying some patches with this glazing puddy i found in the bondo section works great for them small spot skim coats, and i even used a little to fill out some lows i missed but was to lazy to mix new batches of bondo for.

anyways, right now i'm on some dry time.

 

alright, well ive started over on the pods pretty much. switched drivers, the L4's wanted way to much air and i would of never been able to give them that much.








new circle jig to make the rings

my work place, working in the rain

















mocking up the driver side mids and tweets

pasenger side mock up with tweets and mids

about to wrap driver side

 

this is true, but i am probably still gonna flock em.

 

the sony? it's already sold. i sold it to a gentlman in jersy, i dont know what he did to **** it up though because he just called me a couple hours ago saying it died on him...so idk whats up with that. but i'm RMAing it through the vender i got it from for him but idk what happend.

 

was kind of a rush job, i'ma fill it in a bit more tomorrow and sand the **** out of it and get them finished by the end of tomorrow.

 

this is my final setup when everything said, of course i think I'm planning on changing rear's but, ive added this MINI DSP unit to retain rears and still have full control with the MS-8. the mini DSP unit will function as a cross over in this application. i won't use any of it's other functions but it's a rather robust and useful item. does many many many things. for rears i might go with a 2 way set, perhaps something passive, unsure yet, it's yet to be determined. might go with something like my old faverates the JBL c608gti mkii's i sitll have a set laying around, i could drop them into a custom baffle, or i could eve mount the tweeters up onto the corner panels and make this project really sparkle