Alright, here's the basic plan. Best I could do i MS Paint



I've been talking to Darkknight in pm, and he's been a great help! Darkknight Can you give me a quick sketch of what the structure should look like underneath? Want to make sure i didn't miss anything. Thanks!

I know a lot of you guys have fiberglassing experience, so any input for a large structure like this is very much appreciated!

I'm gonna start purchasing materials this week. Can't wait to get started

 

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damn... good luck with this!! Post plenty of pictures along the way man

 

I will... this will pretty much be a photo diary of my project.

 

Dude... I got your PM but for me to draw this out for you will take a long time... Make a strong wood frame, wrap it in fleece gluing it or staple it onto your wood frame, brush it with fiberglass risen, put a few layers of fiberglass on it one at a time letting it layer "flash" or mostly dry, Duraglass it to fill in the low spots, sand, sand, oh ya and sand..., Rage gold it to fill in the smaller spots and to smooth it off, then sand, sand, sand, spray it with 2 layers of high build primer sand, then wrap or paint.

Good luck

 

Take the spare out. Youll have to make a fiberglass piece with a bulge it in, and there is NO way a beginner will be able to do a curved surface.

 

I'm going to be very impressed to see this done.

 

what... no one afraid of their tires popping...

darkknight all i was talking about was a quick MS Paint sketch

 

there are a few things i know of that does not get covered in fiberglass tutorials too much.

- when applying resin to the fleece, go with the grain of the fleece for a smoother surface. this way when you apply your first layer of fiberglass, you will have less resin pockets underneath.

- the use of a fiberglass roller. a roller can help a lot with getting rid of bubbles in between layers.

- shorter brush. it would be a good idea to cut your brushes to about 1.5"-2" in length to help with laying resin to the fiberglass. this way, fiberglass doesnt stick to the brushes as much.

- if you get a lot of resonance, try sound deadening the back of the fiberglass panels with a double layer of dynamat xtreme. a new technique i read about, but never tried yet, is to get some non-drying modeling clay and mold it to the back of the fiberglass.

 

Ok here you go, you need to make a a skeleton backbone like this:










Ok so you need to make the skeleton then once you have the shape you staple or glue the mold fabric in place. Then continue with the build.

As for keeping the spare... with your build you should take it out because you'll have no place to put the flat. It's made to go in the tool well. So once you have this build complete you really will have a very hard time getting to the spare and then ever if you do you ave no place to put the flat...well no... this is not impossible but the type of setup your talking about will kinda look 'off' if your leave all that extra stuff.