Loud & Low 8th Gen Civic - Time to say good bye to her.

[scooter99]

I actually liked it alot! Lot of action and of course I'm a sucka for Dwayne Johnson! He's a little too big in this on though. But after Pain and Gain, I'm guessing he had to be big and this movie just shows the remnants of that. I have no facts to back that up, but I think they were both filmed at the same time or close to each other.

Anyway, it was good. Had a nice quiet night on my own. FUGGER!

[PaCiFiKbAllA]

Looks gewd man REAL good! How many layers of wood u got for the side walls? lol and don't be a pussy, it ain't gonna rain....go out there and finish that bitch up! lol

[scooter99]

Going double layered all the way around, triple baffle, and glassing the inside.

Not the rain I have to deal with really, it's the room I have to work on. Priorities.

[PaCiFiKbAllA]

Gotcha...those always seem to come up now and then. I was just in your neck uv da woods at Thai Chili....just found out one of my HIDs are blown dammit... oh well, gotta roll oem for now lol

[scooter99]

That sucks! I have some HID's but I can't remember what K rating they are. They were for my fog retro's I never did, so I'm guessing they're probably 3000k, which are yellow. I can check if you want.

Well guys, I had some great progress this evening. I have pics uploading. But I also ended the night in complete disappointment! I'm sure it's just a matter of stepping back and letting the solution come to me. But I'm very irritated right now. Not so much irritated, but just very disappointed!

I'll be back in a bit.

[OrangeJuiced]

Hey man, we build things. Everything can be fixed. It's not rocket science. Just gotta think about it, get some outside opinions and you'll get it figured out. Progress is looking great.

[scooter99]

Hey man, we build things. Everything can be fixed. It's not rocket science. Just gotta think about it, get some outside opinions and you'll get it figured out. Progress is looking great.

Thanks, you're absolutely right. I was just so excited about one last step and it didn't go at all as planned. So, I'll step back, re evaluate, and re engage on another day when i have some time.

Gonna post pics now. Stay tuned!

[scooter99]

Ok here we go, I'll save some chatter and get right to it!

First things first, after dealing with the last part, this table needed some beefing up!

Had some siding left over from the sunroom project. This will do just fine.

Bam! Ready to work!

Time for sheet 2 of 3/4" Birch for part 2! Part 1 took a sheet as well.

Part 2 A is cut and ready to assemble.

Assembled and ready to move forward!

All sides pre drilled, countersunk and screwed.

Other side of the box

Part 2 B is cut and ready to assemble

Look at those cuts. All this with a circular saw btw. No table saw here!

Time to put it all together.

Still need a back, but we have to put it together first.

How are we gonna do that.

Slid it over Part A and we're home!

Back side view

Pre drilled, counter sunk, and screwed.

Other side

Back side cut and on. This is what the rest of the sides will look like. I have to drill them all out.

[Leo1103]

damn someone was busy this weekend!

[scooter99]

The two parts meet for the first time! Aren't they the cutest couple...............Sorry got carried away! LMAO

and together........................oops! See a problem here? Damn. I must have miss measured. Good thing it's all a dry run.

So I apparently didn't think about these two levels. So I need to cut this one down. I actually did these pieces, you can see in the last picture, reverse of what they should've been. So I'll fix that now.

See the difference. The space calls for 3 9/16", and this piece is 5 9/16. The bottom piece was fine, for where it was at, but now that has to be remade to be able to attach correctly.

This is better. See the bottom now is longer than the top.

So we now have a good connection. I'll have to round over the bottom piece since it's inside the enclosure now, but I'll do that later. I actually also have some scrap that I can use that is the same angle as the front, maybe that would be ok as well. I can just glue that onto the back of the bottom piece there and it'll make a nice roll off instead of a squared off edge.

Then I put these little ears on the rear part, to kind of close in the corner area.

Like this. Now I'll see if I can cut some angled pieces to put in there, or maybe I'll just glass it in. I don't know at this point.

Other side

Holy Matrimony!!!!

front view, what you'd be looking at from the back seat.

rear angled view

So this is where things went haywire. Got the front part in and was going to test fit the rear part. WOULDN'T FIT! Epic fail on my part! It's too big by about an inch. Maybe less. At first I thought it was just hitting the latch for the trunk, but after taking it out, it gave me a bit more, but not enough. So I'm going to have to see about separating the two pieces of part 2, and maybe having to put them together in 3 different parts. I'm not sure yet. I'll cross that bridge when I step back and take some time to think about it.

So that's about it. After writing that about a half hour ago on facebook, I've been thinking about it. I have 2 different options of taking care of this. Either way they both have to come apart. Both meaning both parts of the rear piece. The outer shell has to come off of the inner shell. There are a few things to check:

1 - Will the inner shell fit in the trunk on it's own? I believe yes, but won't know until I take it apart and try.

2 - If the inner shell will fit in the trunk, with it slid all the way forward into place, will the outer shell fit in there or will the inner shell be in the way?

3 - If the outer shell fits, with the inner shell in place, how do I go about gluing the two together? They're pretty tight as it is, so whatever glue I try to put between them will just be spluged out when they slide together and I'm sure not much will be left for it to be stuck together.

4 - If the inner shell will not allow the outer shell to fit in one piece, then the outer shell will have to be broken down. There should be enough room to glue and screw it together piece by piece to the inner shell inside the trunk. This may be the best way to go about doing things.

5 - will the inner and outer shell slide in the trunk, without the back pieces? My thought is that if this will work, I'll make it so the back two pieces, inner and outer, are put together, and then if the inner and outer shell will slide in the trunk together, I can glue that as one piece, slide it in place, screw it to the front piece, and then putty the screw holes and sand and get it ready for glassing together. Then put the back piece(s) on the rear shells, and then glass that together from the front through the sub holes.

So as you guys can clearly see, I have some testing and work ahead of me. I also wanted to put some 45's in there on the back wall. I think if I just do the back wall it will be fine.

Ok guys, I'm listening! Let me know what you think!