fiberglassed door panels

[lester622]

I got one completely blocked today, just gotta prime & block it again then itll be ready for paint. Its not easy it took me a good 8 hours to just bondo and block 1 straight. The little contour areas are the most time consuming.

I used kinda thick fleece and its saturated (used a gallon and a half of resin on 2 door panels), i pulled it around the whole panel and hot glued and stapled it in alot of places, drilled a bunch of holes in the panels as well and resined the back side over the holes. I Put mat on the outer areas to strengthen it up so that when i pry them off they dont crack or break. They seem to be pretty strong i beat on one with a hammer to make sure it wouldnt crack and see how durable they are. Staples are just regular 1/4" staples seemed to be the only thing i could get to actually hold in the panel the bigger ones wouldnt hold for anything.

Ill add this to the list of things ill never do again .....

 

[lester622]

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ready to prime block one more time then paint.

 

[Half Assed]

looks great

 

[///RAGMC]

Nice! have you test fitted them?

 

[MTM1]

Man that looks awesome. I really have been thinking about doing mine. I want mine color matched but I would like to fiberglass them as well. Ready to see them in paint

 

[lester622]

Nice! have you test fitted them?

i test fitted that panel since its pretty much done, was a little work to get the switch plate to fit like factory but im satisfied with the fit. After i fiberglassed the panel i put it on the door and let it dry so that it held its shape and didnt distort.

 

[J-Dub]

Any more progress on these? I plan on doing mine too. I have fiberglass experience but I've never done full panels before!

 

[lester622]

I have some more progress pictures just havnt had time to post them yet.

Advice if u do urs use the thinest fleece possible alot easier to fit the plastic pieces back

 

[J-Dub]

Normally I use cotton. Any reason I can't use that on the doors?

 

[lester622]

I guess u could, idk much about fiberglass everything i read onpine before i tried the doorpanels said use fleece