so continueing on with body work and finishing ..

I took apart the rear seats and readied them for new covers .. and "buttoned" up the modifications to the supports and levers .
cut and welded .. and sandblasted , and zinc'd .. ready for some color





also tore apart the front bumper that took me a year to find..
got the supports and underside of the filler panel sandblasted and cleaned up .. ready for some POR-15 to seal .



and done



also cleaned up the inside of the bumper , and scuffed the chrome , and zinc'd







and polished and buffed , and waxed the front ...
almost ready to put it back together , just need some color on the topside of the filler



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Lookin sweet Slacker!!! Keep it up man, it's moving along nicely!

 

looks like new. nice!

 

new valance mould done today . waxed , and ready for a new piece tomorrow .. also .. bought my new sterio today



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popped the new valance out today ..
I like it ...



also POR-15's the fender/valance mounts , as well as a bunch of other stuff .. but here's those pieces



Teardown is continueing



time to remove the wire harness




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started working on the doors and inner trim panels .. got the inner of the doors cleaned up , and just about ready to prime .. also started on the trim panel

started with a flat sheet of fiberglass



marked it and trimed it to fit
I was going to have it 2 seperate pieces , like the stock panel , but my "mid speakers are to big ... there is a small "step" in the door panel anyway .. so cutting it and re glassing it will achieve a perfect fit with NO rattles .



starting the "mock up" for speaker location




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so .. waiting in the shop today (my day off) for a customer to show up for some pieces .. I decided to clean up the headlamp buckets and mounts ..

dissmantled them .. and did some sandblasting



and all the regular cleaning .. and such .. and some POR-15 on these as well .. also while I was at it , I polished up the headlamp rings and hardware






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not much to add ...
got the headlamp bucket and pots back together



and the power went out ..
ended my day early



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got a little work done on the door panels the last few days .. building the speaker enclosures has been the most time consuming , but should pay off in the long run .
Instead if just cutting a hold in the door and mounting the speaker on top , I wanted to "enclose" the speaker in it own "pod" so the sound coming out of it is just that much better .. so I was thinking on how to do this .. building custom moulds would take to long .. and i'm really wanting to press on !!!!

so I decided to start looking for a mould already build which I could utalize .. started pulling bowls out of the cupbords and measureing for size , looking at all kinds of things I could use , even went to wallmart and searched for aplicapble forms . I ended up going to the dollar store , and finding a perfect size plastic dog dish for $1.50 and a smaller cat dish for $1.25 .

started making my pieces ..
so I have 4 mids and tweeters going in .. 2 front 2 rear .
I needed 6 bigger pieces , and 4 smaller pieces ..



so after I figure the speaker placement .. started to fit it all together .. cut the door metal to fit the "pods" and glassed the rear portion into place





cut down and prepped the new set of moulded pieces to fit the speakers



and all mocked up





ready for some foam and leather to finish !!!

should rock


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wow thats awesome man, wish i could do fiberglass like u can..

 

pretty easy ...
I'm now in contract to do a "do it yourself" book .. should be really helpfull



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Its quite interesting to see how someone who obviously does lots of fiberglass, but not necessarily stereo work build a door panel.

I like the speaker baffles, but the majority of car audio speakers are not designed to be in a sealed enclosure. It doesn't mean they absolutely won't sound good, but it will significantly change the way that speaker sounds. In my experience they are usually harder to tune, and give you a "snappier" mid bass.

 

Tell me you're gonna sell them to all us 79-83 guys with beat up door panels! Looks like a killer upgrade. I would vent the speakers somewhere too, like trap said. Fully enclosed can make them sound boomy.

 

I was thinking venting the bottom personally so they still served a funtional purpose as a weather guard. I would try them sealed, and pull out the body saw if they don't sound right.

 

dude .. your right .. I'm NO sterio guy , I know nothing about doing it right .
this is why I asked a professional before I did anything ..

because of the size of the airspace behind the speaker .. I shoud be good with the sound + weatherproofed is always good


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did a little clean up on the wiper motor at lunch time today ..

pulled it apart and cleaned everything up



didnt have to paint anything .. except the alum. housing.. and the assy. screws.
acid diped and then bead blasted .. and then clearcoated



all back together ..





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little work on it today

I was able to start stripping everything out of the cab .. prepping to remove the cab for inner paint ..



Wire harness is also now out .. so I can finish with saldering the joints and loom/tape .



and a little look see of the pieces stripped from the truck




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so the rear tub has now been removed , so I can now finish the glass work .




Tub support also removed , and I was able to finish the welding on it some POR 15 and it'll be done and ready for reinstall



engine bay is almost stripped ..



cab is almost ready to come off


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so friday night TV .. no good shows and board so back at er'

a pic of the tub .. ready for the final cut outs and glassing..



also POR'd the rear frame support and other goodies



and started on the wire harness ..



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some work on the weekend I neglected to post ..



wire harness is comming along

also today , I got the tub trimmed up , and basically finished the topside ..




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