Custom fiberglass audio instalation VW BUG prosses, custom fiberglass subwoofer box, door panels

[stylerwilson1]

Nice work, it looks great..

[MonsterMadden12]

real safe jointer you have their

[ecoots]

did i see that your MDF split on the speaker mount at about 1:00? Hate when that happens.

[Senhoridiota]

Seu fdp perdi 9 min da minha vida por sua causa babaca

[MoreLikeCappuccino]

7:59

did he just use an electric screw driver and screw through the fiberglass? to install the subs into his custom box? Can you do this to add screw holes? Or would it crack the fiberglass

[kowally]

very nice man,

[dlmj9003]

Hay man nice job I think I'll try on my 62 bug

[Dillon3654]

hey why people so dotish they see u using a white t shirt but they still asking!!

[supersoul8]

Did you use a t- shirt?

[OSO1383]

hey can i get all this material at home depot?

[arsan1972]

after the resin dries, does it matter if you mat the outter side or the enclosure side for the added strength?

[JohnnyType2]

@arsan1972 no it doesnt matter at all, actually its better to mat the inside as it seal air leaks better and makes it much easier to bondo and much much less sanding.

[tomp45]

Still waiting for you to show them in the car. :(

[OmegaSlayer117]

verry kool vid and nice ass speaker system

[WeAreTwoDoorsDown]

Lol some of the pictures are out of order. But good video!

[Agentunderscore20]

nice design

[1995quint]

fucking nice job dude!

[machetazo713]

i hate smart azzes that always got sum stupid sht to say fuck ya all ya belong to the hater race jaja let this dude do his sht how ever the fuck he wants do your sht how ever you want 

[RWCLOCO]

Is that a tall tee or regular ?

[tomp45]

Your taste in music is awesome, also. Nice project.

[cuzz120]

nice man nice but music was a bit repetitive

[MrZiggy1979]

man you gud as shit broo nice work man.. ima check aww your videos out

[MrZiggy1979]

hey bro how much does da fiber glass stuff cost to do something like dat. im new at this..

[barkingdog3107]

ur 2 fibre glass parts @5.25 havent come out identical...not tht good...but nice effort

[splsafari82]

@barkingdog3107 Actually, its how the panels are slanting off the truck bed. Observing>speaking

[pelonissafe]

why would you cut the back out of the door pods. only thing i dont get. other than that, your damn good with mdf

[ripgabby08]

dam nice work

[dittypop]

t shirt or not the work looks good

[cbarr0288]

Very nice work. Awesome results on the paint. When I fiberglassed, I didn't use bondo. So when I tried painting it, all the imperfections were brought out. Of course I was using spray paint... but I just ended up carpeting and it looked great! I loved the finished product. But man I remember how much of a pain it was to lay that fiberglass.. what a mess..

[huntercaravel]

lol you you used a shirt

ha heay what was it a hanes shirt.???

[RalliartRider]

nice build up everything looks great nice work

[OmenLW]

whaaaat?? i wanna see it installed in the vehicle too!!! Thats the most important part! Nice job on the fiberglassing though.

[alanv22]

what is the thing added at the 0:21 sec for?

[theunforgiven68]

@alanv22 its a vented box

[nirosh89]

very nice work!!

[bran2kay]

nice vid, but what type of wood did you use for the door panel speakers?? it looks alittle thin to be MDF

[Pringleman93]

How did you do that paint job on the door panels? Is it a spray gun?

[PeleGiannisGalpe]

i love watching vids with fyberglass !!!!!!!!

[Ericec4126]

you got down on that video and the other video with the memphis speaker too. Quick question what kinda fabric is that cause that don't look like fleece cause I'm bout to make a box with fiberglass?

[mmicrosysm]

My hat is off to you sir...awesome work there.

[evocre8r]

Wow very nice door panels. One question, how did you install the panels to the original panels? Srews, glue, etc?

Thanks

[blarg1027]

what tools do you use to get the wood circles at 3:58 ?

[aydinburton93]

hey dude....nice work youve done there...im just wondering, for making a custom box like this...is just the shirt over the top to make the mould enough or should i put something else? also what kind of wood do you advise to use? im new to this and havent made one yet

cheers

[fordboy111591]

hha cool im tryin to build my durango a middle console that ill have a 8'' woofer and my nitrous switches and boost gauges built in it

[fordboy111591]

body by haynes haha n i swear i think ive seen more ppl use white t-shirts than actually matt

[hamacaman]

@fordboy111591 Actually the leading brand here in mexico is called "optima" ha ha ha By the way, i do use fiberglass math for stregth, the t-shirt is only to obtain the shape you want and have a base to worck with.

[jonwhunt]

Someone please tell me how to calculate the volume for custom shaped sub enclosures! I've just been doing boxes as a hobby but now I have people asking me to do custom REALLY weird shaped boxes and trying to tell them which sub would work best in the box volume created. If that makes sense lol. Would be great if there was a device that could figure it out somehow =(

[migelin004]

@jonwhunt fiberglassforums com

[lowdowncustomz1]

very nice mate, what fabric did you use

[CivicFiberglassDoor]

Im really hoping that on the first box shown that there was fiberglass mat added to it for strength.

[hamacaman]

Of course man, tons of mat added, but i only use it on the back side of the enclosure so the front is more linear and bump free. Makes it a lot easy to sand it down and obtain a nice smooth finish. :b

[pooh40]

@hamacaman

How did you appy the mat did you dip it and lay it onsidoe ir what?

[Bowtie41]

@hamacaman

Very nice looking.Wouldn't you want to add the mat to the back before the paint?Pics don't look like it was added yet.Also,how did you deal with the split wood at 1:00 that ecoots asked about?Guess you could just lay glass mat around the splits?I'm going to try pods like these soon for the 1st time,although I have done fiberglass bodywork before.Nice designs!

[CivicFiberglassDoor]

@CivicFiberglassDoor The thing that I do for that is put the glass on the inside of the box(or is that what you meant by back side?). What did you use to paint all of the pieces? an air gun?

[Tarin01]

Muy buena la instalacion, A cuanto quedo entonado ese cajon?

[powelld8621]

hey man looks good i do this all the time. and have lots of fun next time you do one try using hot glue on the sticks to hold your rings up it works great for me and they are easier to take out when done you can use in on your mold cloth as well instead of the staples

[hamacaman]

Yes i did, i always do on this kind of designs, doesn´t matter if its a subwoofer box, door panel or any other part.

[stl161]

hey man that looks good is it hard to fiberglass box like that?

[1914151516]

how did you get the speaker pods to stick to the door panel??

[hamacaman]

They are attached from the back panel to the MDF frame of the speaker´s door pods using 3/4" screws, than i sealed all seams from the back using silicon, no big deal here.

[MrMactitas]

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[hamacaman]

thanks man, glad you like my work.

[slokytheone]

very easy google the name of your woofer !!! on kicker site it give you the messures for the box depending on the size of the woofer ,tha way u know how many cubic feet you need

[Mandeologul]

Expert !!!

[ghunt1819]

so if i want to make a box like the one you made yourself, how can i ensure that i left enough air space?

[hamacaman]

It´s too long to explain over here, but i can tell you to take the base box cubic feet and leave a margin. For example, if you need 2 cubic feet for your subwoofer make a 1.8 box and then the extra curve shapped fiberglass will give you the extra .2 cubic feet. You can test the resul by filling the box with water (exact galons) and the convert the gallons to cubic feet. There are other ways, but very complex.

[ghunt1819]

hey great job with that it looks incredible, i just have a few questions. #1, if you make your subs come out that far from the original box will it effect teh sound? (i heard that for a certain sized sub you need a certain sized box in cubic inches or something? and #2is it possible to put a video or something with a detailed explination how i can do this? thanks alot for you time :) keep doing good wirk

[hamacaman]

Hi man, #1 the subwoofers still are inside the box, the shape is unregular, but still just one box. Yes, you do need to give the proper amount of "air space" to a subwoofer, it is measure in cubic feet, A simple formula for square or rectangular shapes is width x height x depth divided by 1728 and the result will be cubic feet. For example 12" x 12" x 24" ecuals 3456" / 1728= 2 cubic feet. Irregular shapes are much more dificult if you have no experience. Good luck man.

[andrew0901280]

so how sturdy is the t-shirt matirial like if it got hit or dropped would it collapse

[hamacaman]

Ok, here is the deal, the t-shirt cloth is like any other, it is used only to make the !shapes" of what you want to built, but you still need to put fiberglass cloth at least 2 layers if it is for speaker pods and 3 to 4 if it is for a subwoofer box. Now, what i do is this... On the front side, upper side, or whatever you whant to call it i use 4 or 5 layers or fiberglasss resin only (no cloth other than the t-shirt. Then i apply the fiberglass cloth and resin layers in the back side or inside.

[hamacaman]

By using only resin in the front side and the fiberglass resin and cloth on the inside/back side will give you a very hard structure and it will be very easy to sand and smooth down, and other nice thing by doing it this way is that when you sand it down it wount itch you, because you will be sandin resin only and maybe t-shirt cloth, and the fiberglass cloth and resin is what itches wen sanded. Try it out, trial and error, thats how i learned, is no big deal if you mess up a few times. I did!

[andrew0901280]

dude thats awsome.

right after seeing the vid this morning i ran acoss the street to lowes and picked up some mdf board and then went to doller general for the t-shirts and im workin on my own.

[hamacaman]

hahaha, i´m glad you found inspiration on this vid, it´s very easy to work with fiberglass, just take your time the first time and you will have good results.

[andrew0901280]

ya had a slite problem yesterday with it.

i has spreading the resin on and the cheap ass shirt from doller general ripped at one of the staples and lossend it all and when i tried to pull it tight and staple it agin it just ripped all the way up to the bass so ya that was a bich and i gotta start all over agin.

F MY L

[hamacaman]

Weird, that´s never happen to me, is it 100% cotton? I think the ones i use are 100% cotton. Maybe you can try not to pull it too tight, find the right amount of "stiffnes" because too little can cause some waves on the shapes. Good luck man.

[andrew0901280]

are those just t-shirts with resin spread on them or did i miss somthing.

by the the way very very nice job 10 outta 10

[hamacaman]

You are right on the money man, just a simple t-shirt works very well with the fiberglass resin ans is very cheap. Thanks for the comment bro.

[hamacaman]

oh, and check out my other vids pleae, i´m very proud of the new beetle install i did a few weeks ago.

[ExoSkelet0n]

This video was sooo helpful on building my own custom box, thanks for posting this. 5 Stars.

[luissftrigger]

maestro ! el de los amplificadores va en la cajuela?

[hamacaman]

Si, va adelante justo sobre el tanque de gasolina, se me acabo la bateria cuando lo filmaba en el otro video, tratare de subir otro donde si se ve como quedo el amp rack. gracias por tu comentario.

[Flemons18]

no you cant buy the rings pre cut but just rent a router if you dont have one they are super easy to make. Hamacaman, did you not lay any fiberglass? did you just do resin over the cloth and then bondo?

[hamacaman]

I did use fiberglass on the back side of every piece i made on this video, 3 layers and in some spots 4 layers. Bondo came after all was very hard and thick.

[Flemons18]

oh okay so you fiberglassed the inside? cuz when i did mine i fiberglassed overtop of the cloth after i soaked it in resin and it was hard to keep the shape right

[hamacaman]

yeah, i know, thats why i prefer to use the fiberglass on the inside only every time its posible, there are some times that is just imposible to do it this way, but when i can, its so much easier to sand and keep the shapes.

[HardBodyDriver]

you put on fleece and then soak it with resin, lay it dry, then put fiebrglass down and soak with resin, sand it good and repeat 2 or 3 times, sand that really good and then put on bondo and sand it out wit 50 grit 80 grit 120 grit 220 grit and then a fine fine fine grit to make sure it is smooth

[qinces]

What is betwen 2:29 and 2 :36 ?...what i need to get this ??

[ser00894]

nice sub, nice work)))

[guslingus]

Great technique to establish the form

[VENTRUE05]

is there a place you could just buy the wooden rings already pre-cut

[toyotacuraLOU]

buy a jasper circle jig for a router for the rings!!! Best money i ever spent!! you can make any size circle you want!

[LTCBOY628]

Great Video Man. This has helped alot!!!!