70 Camaro - Boise, Idaho

[Goosesdad]

I know all of this looks super rough but thought sending some of the process would be enjoyed. Not promising perfection but fine tuning is coming soon.

Everything that is currently wood (dash and lower dash panels) are just "plugs", I will make fiberglass molds of these plugs and then make proper fiberglass parts as the final piece.

Made a quick cardboard template of the glove-box-delete panel and intended to make a wood mold from that....the cardboard ended up straight and stout enough that I decided to skip the wood mold process for this very simple part.


Some radius work with filler.


A splash of filler primer for a final sanding.


2 layers of 1.5oz mat and 1 layer of cloth.


Fast forward quite a bit and have this panel mounted in place. Fair bit of work to get the flanges to hold this piece. Still lots of clean up to be done but making this panel easy to access and remove was important as I'm going to mount some electrical behind it..

And really paying attention to the panel gaps here to account for .090 for 2 layers of leather or alcantera - keep the interior guys from hating me later.

Taking every opportunity to keep ingress/egress for your feet at least reasonable without being a yoga instructor. Not much room with the door bars but compromise is always part of our lives!


Pulled the passenger side of the center console off it's mold so I could reinforce some of the sections.