evans

Anyone have experience fiberglassing their interior? I have a few ideas but would like to get input on people who already have tried? Any suggestions or hints? Anything that will help me finish the interior I want.

swifty

how is anyone gonna help you when you never told anyone what your doing, what your plans are or any of your ideas????

info,info,info!

evans

well I want to do all the interior panels to fiberglass, see how they turn out than eventually make a dash. I was thinking using the fiberglass blanket over the panels now and throwing some fiberglass on that and see how it goes?

swifty

all you need is some fleece (cheaper and everyone pretty much uses that) , some fibre glass matting and a big tub of resin also a second tube of resin catalyst hardener.

best is to strip down the panels, dont lay it right over the panel as it will be thicker and will eventually crap and seperate. also with laying it over the panel direct , it will be thicker and you can start having trouble shutting the door (panel will be pressing on the dash).

IMO best is to strip factory material down pick a layout you want and go to town.

evans

where can i get the fiberglass matting? and what kind of fleece?. By stripping the stock components do you mean right down to the plastic? or start right off the metal where it is going?

swifty

the matting you should be able to get at any automotive store,usually in the body work section. for fleece i'd say go to walmart in the fabric section and go in the bin of stuff thats pre-cut for sale at cheap price. and yes right down to the plastic, but make sure you take it down and before applying the fleece and resin that you hit it with a shot of 40 grit paper to make sure you get proper adhesion to the panel.

evans

so instead of going over the plastic.. do I use the matting as a base for my fiberglass?

swifty

use the fleece as your base, and the matting for strength on either speaker pods or anything that may need some strength.

evans

you wouldnt happen to have any pictures to show would you?

swifty

personally go thru the internet and browse at different pics and DIY's. even magazines have detailed things like that in them, there usually different every month tho.

the internet is your friend!

evans

alright, I will look around see what I can find, than attempt it i guess, not going to be easy though.

deckard

practice on a panel from a scrap yard before you do anything
fibreglassing is great if you do it right and remember it is messy and dusty when trimming and sanding
check out composites canada in mississauga for supplies

aznimport2nr

If you dont know what your doing I would suggest getting professional help... my friend ruined his interior trying to do this and it didnt even look good in the end...

evans

hey guys, thanks for the input, I realize that this is a bit harder to do, but you know what I love a challenge. That is why I am putting a H23A engine into my 91 Civic HB. If your not familiar with it, its a prelude engine, 2.3L replacing my 1.5L.
Anyways, thanks for the help but I just have one more question. I was watching a show on tv and they showed how to do it. Easy I think, but they narrowed the thickness of the fiberglass alot. Any ideas of what they added to do this?

smith21

another option for you that might have been a little easier and cheaper would to pump any of the spongey padding you had in your door, if you had any with resin, wait for it to harden, sand it smooth, and shoot the whole door with a high build primer making it nice and smooth, sand up to a high grit sand paper and then paint and clear. Have done a few interiors this way and it's come out really nice. You do need to do some work with body filler to fill in sections, if that's waht you please, but its rather easy.