'95 4 Door Tahoe Fiberglassed Amprack (Pics)

[DOHCrazy 10+ year member]

Monday I started work on my amprack. Its under the rear seats, and will hold a nine.1, nine.4, and two distrobution blocks.

This was my first fiberglass project ever. I had never even watched anyone in real life do it, only the GMC.com videos. I learned alot, and could probably do a better job if I redid it, but it works, and will look nice once carpeted. Since it was only an amp rack, the few mishaps I had are only cosmetical and will be covered up anyways.

There are T-Nuts glued in on the underside of the plywood for the amps and distro blocks. I plan on doing alot of installing and uninstalling whiel doing my wiring so this was a good choice.

Im going to be doing my kickpanels before school starts, and think they will come out nicely because of the past two days experience.

Getting to the pics, resized, as Im not as incompetant as most picture posters. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/tongue.gif.6130eb82179565f6db8d26d6001dcd24.gif

The work area:

Masking:

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[DOHCrazy 10+ year member]

Matte on (This was my first mistake, I should have worked peice by peice):

Resin:

Mold Out:

First Trim:

Final Trim:

Mounting Plane:

Dowel Rods:

 

[DOHCrazy 10+ year member]

Top Mounted:

Test Fit:

Gromets:

Fleecing:

Redid fleece, Resin:

Matte Applied:

Trimed and tested:

Under amp holes cut and inside reinforced. Hole for seat bolt:

Carpet will be here on friday, I will update with pictures.

 

[mattmcss 10+ year member]

looks good ,

 

[nauc 10+ year member]

is your car hanging from the ceiling or somethin, sh!ts all sideways

 

[BeanII 10+ year member]

was glassing necessary? I don't think so, but good work

 

[chinny 5,000+ posts]

good lookin

 

[jujumantb 10+ year member]

was glassing necessary? I don't think so, but good work

Thats what I was thinking, but to get it flush to the floor it is kinda needed, not to mention its good practice for bigger fiberglass projects he might want to do sometime.

 

[DOHCrazy 10+ year member]

Thats what I was thinking, but to get it flush to the floor it is kinda needed, not to mention its good practice for bigger fiberglass projects he might want to do sometime.

The reason I glassed was so it fit snug, didnt move, and I could use the factory seat bolts to secure them rack.

Also for practice //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[Starky 10+ year member]

I change my Amps Way to often to make a Rack like even though I have like the same layout in my car as you(thats where I put my amps to)

 

[AVSTANG02]

Now that's CLEAN can't wait to see the finished pics.

 

[JAZN 5,000+ posts]

looks good. nice and clean //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

should be good practice so you can do something nice with your doors //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif

and stop taking sideways pics

 

[DOHCrazy 10+ year member]

Thanks for the positive comments.

Parts express said the carpet will be here on friday.

 

[cappy72 10+ year member]

very nice ....

 

[nametaken 10+ year member]

Good work.

Is it gonan be inside the enclosre? Will it have like plexi covering up the holes?