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

[bmxrideranton]

Thanks, I'll let you know if I have a question. I really need to start my build log!

[Bump4life]

love the creativity onb battery placement!! im tuned in for rest!!

[scooter99]

Ok this is what i got done yesterday and tonight. Probably doesn't look like much, but last night was about a half hour to 45 minutes, and tonight was about an hours worth. LIttle bits at a time. Tomorrow night an hour or so more. This is my life! LOL But it's all I have to work with. If I can sustain it, then there should be pretty good progress every other day at least. We'll see.

Ok on with the pics!! First up, last nights work.

Driver side vent out, and pulling some deadener back.

Passenger side vent out and pulling foam and deander.

Cleaned up, line drawn, and ready to cut.

Driver side cut. Wasn't as close to straight down as I wanted it to be. I just cant' go in any further or I'm cutting into the well and that wouldn't be good. So I'll have to figure out how to make this work.

Passenger side cut. Pretty much the same thing on this side. I'll have to figure out how to make it work. I can still get another quarter inch out of this one if I need to. But only time will tell. Time to get down to business now.

Now today's work.

Got a couple of tools today for the curves and contours.

These things are pretty cool. They just bend and are soft. These will help get close to the contours of the trunk. They're not actually meant for this. They're actually meant to like hold extension cords in a coil, or hold ropes, or whatever else. But because of their pliability I thought they'd be perfect for this.

Kind of like this.

Better view. Bend it until you get your shape. Takes some work. But you get the idea.

Got the amp rack in for the first time since it was glassed!

Remember that the back wall was terribly out of shape and not straight. Got that fixed! Grace in the back ground grazing on weeds! LOL

[scooter99]

Now it's time to get busy. Started with the cubbies because I knew those would be the toughest to do. Driver side. Bending it up until i think it's real close. This isn't going to be perfect, but it gets me close enough and after that some trimming and it'll be good.

Take the stick and put it on some construction board

Traced it with a sharpie

A little love with the scissors and we have a template started.

Not too bad. Did some trimming, a little too much on the left side there where you see the blue tape. The tape puts it back to where it needs to be.

You can see how close it is here. I didn't have to trim that part. Oh yeah!

Continuing on, I grabbed my other contour measuring tool and found this radius. See how this works?

Now the driver side template is done.

Made it so it goes right up to the amp rack, I'll probably rabbet out a bit of the base board, so it actually sits above the amp rack to keep it in place. I'm planning to add an inch all the way around the amp rack for overlay.

Now time for the passenger side.

Same thing, started with the stick in the cubby

Moved around taping and cutting

Then got the top part cut. Now it's all one piece.

Just another view. Next up, I need to get it out of there, and get it cut into pieces of 1/4" MDF. From there, I'll transfer it to 3/4" Birch. Also need to get a rivnut kit so I can attach it to the trunk floor as well.

Also got a couple things today. Only one can I show you though. The others are at work and I had left early so I'll have to get pics tomorrow. BUT IT WILL BE WELLLLLL WORTH THE WAIT I PROMISE!!!

Got this from amazon today! Hmmmmm wonder what this could be for!! For those that already know, SHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! Not a huge deal but a pretty cool little additional project I think!

So that's all for today.

Tomorrow, I'll plan on getting the MDF pieces cut out with the Jig Saw, and ready for the birch and router. I know, an extra step, but I think it'll be ok. I have the MDF and I'm ok with that. I do have to figure out, if I want to go across the amp rack with the base board. It would go along the back wall, shown below, and come out about an inch. I'll decide that when I get started tomorrow. The purpose would be to link the two sides together, as well as, possibly to put led's under it.

The other thing is I wish I could figure out where the enclosure was going. Then I could make the board 3 separate pieces. I'll see if I can't figure that out tomorrow too. Maybe I won't get all the way to cutting tomorrow. I might just have to wait and do some more measuring and marking. I'm just rambling.

That's it tonight. Thanks for checking in!

As always your comments and suggestions are welcome. Like my facebook page, linked in my signature, for quicker up to date statuses and pictures. Still looking for that 100 likes so I can give some things away.

[dog24fret]

You and your fancy tools

show off lol

[Leo1103]

Nice work with that orange cable holder! That would have saved me a bunch of time Doin trim panels for my car lol. Keep up the good work man!

[bmxrideranton]

New tools look great! wish i had a trunk available to do this sweet integration...

Don't know if i missed it, but what ended up happening with your old wheels after the one cracked?

[Twostrokeking]

Long time no talk! Ive been busy as hell but im still watchin and learnin! Hope all is well

[Crandis16]

LINKS TO THE BENDY WIRE

[IBleedMusick]

Oh shit actual progress I must say I am very impressed...More please.