Soooooo....I started this post, what, 9 months ago? Long before I had my stroke lol
Anyway, I've decided that it was time to finish a project or two (the first was repainting a bedroom, followed by redoing the closets in that bedroom and another, I was told they were projects anyway :? ) the next was to get the trunk of the Malibu a little farther along than it was. I started a post in general discussion titled Fun with fiberglass back in august that highlighted some of the speaker box build, although with school last semester I didn't have the time to finish it beyond getting the carpet and backing cut and glued together, the side panels made and carpeted and the fiberglass part of the box made. So this past week my wife was in Alaska, my son's with my ex, and I've been bored. So I decided to tackle finishing up the trunk. I started by laying the carpet down, mounting the side panels, putting the fiber glassed box in and making a bulkhead panel from masonite covered in carpet. I then took some cardboard and made some templates of what I wanted the trunk hinges to look like when I was done, then I used said templates to make masonite versions. I joined the two pieces for each side with a scrap of oak I had left over from a kitchen project some glue and my pneumatic brad nailer.
Front side of the driver side cover
Back side of the same cover
Both covers made and installed pre-carpet
So I carpeted the trunk hinge covers and then went to work covering up the nasty looking area that was between the speaker box and the side board. You know that area that's a few inches wide that is between the spare tire well and the drop off to the quarter. I had a lot of fiberglass mat left over, along with a pint or so of resin. So I put everything where it needed to be and then started taping. A little more "fun with fiberglass" and I had a rough panel to cover the area up.
After I had gotten done "glassing" the area, waiting for it to dry
Here's the panel after it was dry and then cut to fit how I wanted it
I then carpeted the panel I had just made as well as the speaker box itself. I actually fought about this in my head for a while, while the glass work was good enough it wouldn't have taken that much time to make the box paint worthy since I'm no longer a body shop guy I decided painting it would be more of a hassle than it was worth, so carpet it was. I didn't prep the box at all, just started in with the spray glue and carpet. After getting everything carpeted I started installing last night. It's all done except for the back panel that the tail lights bolt to. I think that I will probably end up taking everything out and just gluing carpeting right to that panel and then cleaning up the tail light fasteners, but that's for a future installment :lol:
Here's the pictures of the trunk after everything was put in and installed, but it's not been vacuumed yet
If there's any questions ask away....for some reason I've lost some pictures of the process #-o
Anyway, I've decided that it was time to finish a project or two (the first was repainting a bedroom, followed by redoing the closets in that bedroom and another, I was told they were projects anyway :? ) the next was to get the trunk of the Malibu a little farther along than it was. I started a post in general discussion titled Fun with fiberglass back in august that highlighted some of the speaker box build, although with school last semester I didn't have the time to finish it beyond getting the carpet and backing cut and glued together, the side panels made and carpeted and the fiberglass part of the box made. So this past week my wife was in Alaska, my son's with my ex, and I've been bored. So I decided to tackle finishing up the trunk. I started by laying the carpet down, mounting the side panels, putting the fiber glassed box in and making a bulkhead panel from masonite covered in carpet. I then took some cardboard and made some templates of what I wanted the trunk hinges to look like when I was done, then I used said templates to make masonite versions. I joined the two pieces for each side with a scrap of oak I had left over from a kitchen project some glue and my pneumatic brad nailer.
Front side of the driver side cover
Back side of the same cover
Both covers made and installed pre-carpet
So I carpeted the trunk hinge covers and then went to work covering up the nasty looking area that was between the speaker box and the side board. You know that area that's a few inches wide that is between the spare tire well and the drop off to the quarter. I had a lot of fiberglass mat left over, along with a pint or so of resin. So I put everything where it needed to be and then started taping. A little more "fun with fiberglass" and I had a rough panel to cover the area up.
After I had gotten done "glassing" the area, waiting for it to dry
Here's the panel after it was dry and then cut to fit how I wanted it
I then carpeted the panel I had just made as well as the speaker box itself. I actually fought about this in my head for a while, while the glass work was good enough it wouldn't have taken that much time to make the box paint worthy since I'm no longer a body shop guy I decided painting it would be more of a hassle than it was worth, so carpet it was. I didn't prep the box at all, just started in with the spray glue and carpet. After getting everything carpeted I started installing last night. It's all done except for the back panel that the tail lights bolt to. I think that I will probably end up taking everything out and just gluing carpeting right to that panel and then cleaning up the tail light fasteners, but that's for a future installment :lol:
Here's the pictures of the trunk after everything was put in and installed, but it's not been vacuumed yet
If there's any questions ask away....for some reason I've lost some pictures of the process #-o
