2012 Corolla build...No Longer (New Truck)

[KenC210]

So i have it ready to go here outside at first... till i moved it to the barn.

So here i have the first layer of resin and fiber glass. Since i have only about an hour or so a day to do this, i will have to wait till tomorrow to get the second layer on. I am on the night shift right now so that is why i only have an hour or so... I get home about 630am then i have to be at work by 530pm.

[Torres]

you can put the brush in some acetone and you can use em more often. but then you'll be spending money on acetone instead of brushes, and i don't know how much a jug of acetone is offhand. i buy a bunch of cheap brushes, like less than a dollar a piece

and you have the same shift i do pretty much. i don't get home as late except for saturdays, i get home at almost 8 am. usually it's 3 or 4 but i can't find time to get SHIT done at all. i hate it.

[KenC210]

Yeah it sucks at times at least i have a rotating schedule days a few weeks then nights a few weeks, but i work every other saturday.

So i just got a few more layers on this so far its coming along good. once it is completely dried after putting a few more layers i will remove the shell start mocking up some mdf to get this closer to being done.

[KenC210]

Alright so i did some more work on the enclosure. I test fit the enclosure and It fit in there like a glove and did not move at all. Although it fit fit i ran into clearance issues.... Here are some pics.

It fits in there nice and to me is looking pretty good.

So i go ahead and try to close the trunk and to my surprise it wont close... So i looked around and seen it was a wire.

I thought, easy fix just re-route the wire and call it done. Not a big deal i work at the toyota manufacturing plant and if i break a clip i could most likely get another.

So after re-routing the wire i thought i was good to go. Well another issue came up. There is a cross bar that forces the trunk to open when the latch is released, well its in the way now. So i thought well maybe i could take it off because the other side had the same latch and it could open it alone. Well it was attached with rivets and i didn't want to cut it off, so now i need to make adjustments to the box.

So now i will have to cut the a small portion out of the corner where the latch will be. I am glad i test fitted it before i re-enforced the back of the fleece and put the carpet on. So at least it is not that big of a deal.

More updates to come later.

[KenC210]

Alright got it cut and time to test fit it again, this time i got sub put in.

As you will see here i still need a little trimming to do. I will re-enforce the the fleece and close is up tomorrow.

[LUV bass]

Looks like a nice little project. I recently built a box for my 2008 corolla, and ran into clearance issues with the trunk hinges as well.

[punkrockprs]

nice

[shogen]

looks really nice man!

[KenC210]

Got this finished last night here come some photos until the vids finish loading

[bre2ts]

nce man i wish my wife would let me do that to her alfa