hey i just wanted to post questions on a different thread in case it gets stickied in the tutorials section. tryin to keep it clean. nice work by the way. i got lost with the whole flanging part and im under the impression that your dash mold will be two parts? correct? if so it would be more benificial to have them one piece so its easier to initially set up. why not flange after the initial lay ups of the fiberglass? im wanting to do my dash along with others and had the idea of wet laying it but now seeing a picture tutorial im willing to try a plug and mold method. im just a bit confused thats all. why lay up in sections rather than one whole sing dash mold. please help me out.
sorry I didn’t explain it that well. The reason for making multi part molds is due to the negative angles of the plug. I saw a thread on fiberglast that explained it the best. If you take a ball and lay fiberglass over more than half of the ball you will not be able to remove it but if you cut the ball down the center with a flange and layup one side then the other you can split the two halves apart and remove the ball.
This dash will be 4 parts total. 2 top halves left and right then 2 front halves left and right.
wont you get seams of where the 4 separate pieces match up? how do you get that sooo smooth to where you wont be able to see it without sanding down when its done? how do you connect the pieces together?
if you get it right when you lay the part most of the time the seams wont show and if they do, you just wetsand them smooth, they will be so small 5 seconds of wetsanding an area will get rid of them
If you are available on Sunday come on over and I’ll show you.
I know where dallasb is going with this and I think it’ll be better explained once Dan does his layup.
sunday sounds great. email me your phone number and ill give you a call and check it out. i really want to learn the mold building process. dallasb84@yahoo.com
No prob, I’ve been sick myself and didn’t get a chance to work on it. plus the eagles were playing at 1.
That dash is a 96-00 civic. I sold my s2k dash so I have to make another one although I rarely get time to work on my own projects. I keep selling my good parts and my trial pieces go on the car so it looks like crap right now. I also work in Pennsylvania where I have a 4 car garage with all my molds. Had to take a full time job down here so I do what I can with the garage I rent.
Sure, we can work on the side skirts. I’ll take you down to my supplier for materials. 5 minute trip from my house, how sweet is that?!?!
oh yeah, I’ll definitely be vacuum bagging this one the first time but plan to start infusing soon.
Robby,
I normally spray pva with a mini hvlp gun.
Ok cool… Sorry about cluttering up you other post with questions, didnt see this post…
just out of curiosity, how much did you get for your s2000 dash? I sold the 92-95 civic one for $900
$1200 plus trade for a stock dash.
nice! I just went to my local junk yard last week and got 8 dashs for $200. I am going to overlay all of them and sell them, half are already sold
I got 2 95-99 eclipse dashes
2 96-00 Civic dashes
1 s2000 dash
1 rx8 dash
1 rsx dash
1 94-01 integra dash
dude, that’s alot of work!
Nice price. That integra dash is $485 brand new.
yeah but to average a grand per dash, it is worth it
I wouldn’t say that high. The s2k yeah since it’s a higher priced car and attracts higher paid people but the most I could get for the 96 civic was $750. Do you plan to cover all your airbag holes or keep them operational?
i have both the civic 96-00 dashes sold for $900 and the rx8 and rsx ones sold for $1,100. So my average is $1,000 for them so far
i am keeping them operational, but I have a airbag cover they can buy seperate, but they must disengage their airbag, or they will be getting a face full of carbon in an accident!
I would protect yourself with some kind of warning notice.
Why is Evan being so quiet today?
oh I tell everyone that gets the airbag covers what is needed to be done and all my parts come with a writeup stating their off-road use and a full disclaimer