Single and cheap!
Many dunks, washes, rides and still got some great tunes!

 

At haywire17,

Ok was wondering if you were worried about heat. I was in the air on what to do with my amp. It is enclosed behind front speakers. I left a space open next to that for a future amp for wakeboard speakers. The amp is digital and was told it would take the heat. Guess I will see. I did mount a fan at each end of the amp. Haven't had any problems with heat this winter but we will see when the dog days get here..Keep me posted if you do add an amp.

Anyone ready for a SILVER-SEVEN ?

 

no I did'nt worry about the heat, my console is open above,I plan to put a cover over the stereo,and speakers,amp will remain open,should be enough air flow between the space for roof and console.will keep you up to date.

 

A couple a pics from a top one of our group members makes. This one is pretty extreme (for a top) but he has done several variations.

 

Nice! I had that idea of the plexiglass under the amp.
Tonight I decided on building a few to sell...to help fund my rzr hobby. Wish me luck guys!

 

update on fiberglass here are some pics for first coat of glass and resin with black paint color, trimmed off bad edges had to use dremel tool too hard for razor knife and way to time consuming for sander, dremel is way to go.

 

Looks like its coming along great man! Let me know how that black sands.

 

Ok so I had some time to start sanding, went well, the resin is hard as nails, did not clog sandpaper, but surely wore it out. I kinda like the krinkle look it has after sanding, was debating whether to make it gloss finish, I figured it would show any imperfections and scratches really easy, so I mite go with the semi smooth finish.

 

nah don't wimp out . Coat that sucker with bondo and slick it up! Shiney is cool!

 

What grit are you using? If you use a little paint roller next time and rollout the resin it will knock that down

 

Starting with 60 grit next 120 then 220 do final with 600, then a good buff and shine

 

1st coat of all resin,starting to fill in all them voids looking real good,hopefully I can sand tomorrow,I laid a pretty good amount on tonight.
you can see how deep the color is getting compared to the glass coat.
I think the fiberglass is heavier than the form itself.I am going to weight it once done to get final weight I hope it falls between 10-12 lbs. minus stereo and such

 

That is mean!!!!! I want to do that so bad.... On the fence still :/

 

All of these look great. I am wondering if you use marine grade speakers?

My concern is that for any speakers that face towards the front at all the dust will get em or the water from splashing when we ride. Do you have to be concerned when you wash it with maring grade's??

Thanks and it looks awesome.

 

Thanks

 

Here's what I did... easy and cheap... sound decent..

 

Just started mine over the weekend hopefully finishing this week for a ride over the weekend.

 

How hard is it to do that fiberglass work? Expensive?

 

Honestly the fiberglass work was not that hard, watched many YouTube video's on it first, me and my girlfriend did it she really impressed me and was a lot of help with two people doing it. The cost of it I'm not sure. I got my resin, hardener, and fiberglass matt for free from a cousin. The fleece was really cheap though, used like 6 feet of it. This was my first time to try using fiberglass and it worked good. I did not spend a lot of time on sanding since i was using roll on bed liner which was a plus cause sanding is a pain.

 

Very nice I really like the way you incorporated the roof into your design,good way to cut the weight down, love all them speakers too. How much does it weigh with out speakers and stereo?
Amazing what we do to get good tunes out on the trails.

 

Had some time to work on my console but had to make a paint booth equipped with fan and temp control, built this in my sun room works great.
got some painting done Sunday got two coats of white lacquer done one more to go then 1 coat clear for protection (till design is done :shhh,man you got to love wet sanding.

 

Weight wise without speakers about 25lbs with them probably 30. Finised the roof yesterday now just have to bolt it down and get bigger bolts for the light bar.

 

Awesome looking, not to bad on weight.

 

So I've got a quick question to all of y'all that are fiberglassing your speaker enclosures the staples after it hardens do/ or can you pull them out or do you just cover them with bondo. I'm building a big speaker box for the bed with a place to put a cooler and a Jerry can and I'd like to cover everything with resin but I'm wondering if I just do the upper part and then do the bottom after the top hardens if 1 will they stick and
2 if the staples will be a weak point or
3 I can pull them out and cover them with resin or bondo





Thanks ahead of time this is my first time messing with fiberglass

 

Just put them on the bottom side where you cant see them thats how mine are

 

So I'm putting on the resin and I'm wondering if I'm going to have to put a second coat on the fleece before the bodo filler......really the question is will it be hard enough

 

I used two coats of resin, knocked own the high spots with 80 grit then coated with bondo. , sanded ,primed , touched up any imperfections with poly putty reprimed , sanded and painted.

 

Bruce that's what I thought but this is the first time messing with fiberglass for me. Btw where did you run the power wires for you LED'S ...from the light (through where ) to the battery.