Well as I was working on my car I pulled the door panels off only to find that someone had taken a screwdriver or something and punched holes through them towards the front on the bottom, looks like they used to have speakers there for some stupid *** reason. So as you can imagine it pretty much made the door panels junk. So....... I made new ones using the old ones as sort of a template and I thought I would add a little extra to it, so without further adieu
Lemme know whatcha think, its actually only temporary right now. I just want to get it put back together so when I get my motor and tranny in it I can drive it.
it is really quite easy, just find some type of wood of your preference, I used some stuff I found at lowes can't remember the name of it but it was 10 bux for a 4 x 8 ft sheet. traced the original door panels as best as I could then drew out the design for the flames on cardboard. cut that out as a template. traced it out on the material I used for the door panel itself. Then you decide what type of adhesive you want to use for everything, etc etc. There are more steps thats just a quick run through.
Was it actually wood, or something closer to cardboard? This is almost an idea for me so I don't have to shell out the $160 for my door panels quite yet.
http://www.decpanels.com/Signature_S2S.html That is the exact stuff I bought. But I can't find it on the lowes website. It is actually a wall panel but it is pretty flexible. I used a jigsaw to cut mine out but you could probably use a razor knife if you wanted to take the time. Just go to lowes back by the trim and all that and it should be back there. I used the 1/8 " cause anything any thicker won't work all that great. I used the factory push clips that go inside the doors too!!! If anyone wants to do this and needs any help with it I still have one door panel left to do so I can take lots of pictures and make kind of like a tutorial.
I've never been able to get the cover material to contour to under lying shapes, like your flames.
How'd you get it to contour so well, without folds or wrinkles?
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17"x9" ROH Snypers (with the correct 3rd gen backspacing, no spacers needed), 275 front/285 rear, no rear seats, 4th gen front seats, OEM 2001 TA rear wing, OEM 1997 TA side mirrors
it is really quite easy, just find some type of wood of your preference, I used some stuff I found at lowes can't remember the name of it but it was 10 bux for a 4 x 8 ft sheet. traced the original door panels as best as I could then drew out the design for the flames on cardboard. cut that out as a template. traced it out on the material I used for the door panel itself. Then you decide what type of adhesive you want to use for everything, etc etc. There are more steps thats just a quick run through.
so you glue the cardboard to the wood and put the material over it, and thats how u get the design?
I've never been able to get the cover material to contour to under lying shapes, like your flames.
How'd you get it to contour so well, without folds or wrinkles?
Its tedious work, but I use spray adhesive mostly and a hot glue gun, just have to take it slowly, kind of roll the material over as you need it, same with the adhesive, use it as you need it. Spray it and let it set for about 20 sec or so then lay your material over it.
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so you glue the cardboard to the wood and put the material over it, and thats how u get the design?
NOOOO. lol I found out a long time ago using cardboard as the pattern underneath the fabric doesn't work to well. It lets go after a while. I just use the cardboard as a template so that way both sides are exact.
so you use your base peice of wood, and then another peice of wood for the design, glue the two peices of wood together, and then put on the fabric???
Yeppers thats the basic process. When I start on the drivers side door panel I will take some pictures and do a tutorial for it so if anyone else wants to do it they will have that to go by. I already have the panel and design traced out but its not hard to get to that point. So my tutorial will start from there.
I've never been able to get the cover material to contour to under lying shapes, like your flames.
How'd you get it to contour so well, without folds or wrinkles? Care to share HOW?
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17"x9" ROH Snypers (with the correct 3rd gen backspacing, no spacers needed), 275 front/285 rear, no rear seats, 4th gen front seats, OEM 2001 TA rear wing, OEM 1997 TA side mirrors
I got no Reply Notice, and when the others came in after his, I didn't scroll up and read more.
I will say this though....It's not nearly as easy as he made it sound. Short of using Spandex to stretch over the multiple contours, it always comes out looking like....well....you know!
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17"x9" ROH Snypers (with the correct 3rd gen backspacing, no spacers needed), 275 front/285 rear, no rear seats, 4th gen front seats, OEM 2001 TA rear wing, OEM 1997 TA side mirrors
I got no Reply Notice, and when the others came in after his, I didn't scroll up and read more.
I will say this though....It's not nearly as easy as he made it sound. Short of using Spandex to stretch over the multiple contours, it always comes out looking like....well....you know!
I agree, its not near that easy. Me and a buddy of mine attempted to recover the top material on mine and could barely get it to come out ok, I cant imagine someting lying under it and having to make it raise without getting wrinkls all over. Tried to get it to contour to the factory slit thingswith no luck.
On another note those things look great, seriously.
