70 Camaro - Boise, Idaho

[Goosesdad]

Thanks guys!!

Man, did life happen these past couple of months. SEMA, Round 2 of the "SEMA flu" aka Covid (Round 1 was Nov.2019...suspect many of you did as well), the normal flu, 30 year Anniversary, a scare with a lump in my wife's breast (benign), mother-in-law trip and fall - Hip, 2 weeks later 2nd fall - other hip! Did a little work on the Camaro but not enough! AJ (Camaro AJ) was kind enough to get me the wiring diagram for these 2015 power mirrors, bought new mirrors and a new switch, got the wiring looms/plugs from a junk yard. Wired it up, all works. I know these mirrors won't fit or look right as is, but I plan to heavily modify and see if I can make them work. I really like the idea of power mirrors and these seem like a good option. Will do all that later but needed to make sure I could get them to function before finding a home for the switch in the door panel. I will update some of the door panel pics tomorrow.

[waynieZ]

Hi John, first glad your wife is okay, that's a scary thing. Do they work through a body module or just power and wiring?

[camcojb]

Originally Posted by Goosesdad

[B]Thanks guys!!

Man, did life happen these past couple of months. SEMA, Round 2 of the "SEMA flu" aka Covid (Round 1 was Nov.2019...suspect many of you did as well), the normal flu, 30 year Anniversary, a scare with a lump in my wife's breast (benign), mother-in-law trip and fall - Hip, 2 weeks later 2nd fall - other hip!

Went through the same with my wife last year, except it was confirmed as cancer. Caught it very early and after treatment she's doing great. I'm very happy things turned out good John.

[Goosesdad]

Originally Posted by camcojb

Went through the same with my wife last year, except it was confirmed as cancer. Caught it very early and after treatment she's doing great. I'm very happy things turned out good John.

Thanks Wayne! Glad your wife won! Hope everyone here is encouraging the women in their lives to keep up on those tests. Seems we both have early detection to thank.

Thanks again everyone for the well wishes!

[Goosesdad]

I didn't go a great job of documenting the process here, frankly I changed my plans about a gazillion times so it wouldn't have made sense anyway. I will take better pics during the passenger side.

I think it came out pretty good and solved the problems at hand. Couldn't completely solve the problem of your feet clipping the panel (near the speaker) when you are getting out, getting over the door bar and pulling your leg in tight with the supports on the seat is just tough. Maybe I need to take some yoga and limber up!
I know it looks like a lot of body filler but the bulk of shape was created with florist foam and then a thin layer of fiberglass cloth, then a sweep of filler. Panel is actually fairly lightweight.


I will blend the upper plastic panel into the lower here, still to come.


Tried to carry the arm rest such that it followed the door bars, not really to hide them but just made sense to the eye. These two pieces are removable and actually pretty complicated hollow parts. I'll get some pics during construction on the pass side.


I don't like the way the arm rest cuts off the speaker but I couldn't get around this, made a couple of attempts but they just didn't look right. I am going to make a lower flange on the speaker grill right about the arm rest so it appears the cut off circle was purposeful. It's gonna mean some work on the press to reshape the speaker grill.


The door pull is bolted to the door so it not only is sturdy for closing the door but also serves to pull the door panel in tight.
There will be an separate insert panel here. Plan for now is leather on the entire door panel with the insert being either carbon or alcantara.

[Goosesdad]

This is the plug for the lower dash panel. I'll mold this when I do the molds for the dash and then make fiberglass parts. The headlight switch and the mirror control will go in this panel.

[dhutton]

Amazing things going on here!

Don

[Goosesdad]

Some filler primer so it's all in one color. Will make a few adjustments but this is close. The company that I got the door pulls stopped making them, only had blue ones left, they'll get re-anodized later once I choose interior colors.


Will blend the plastic upper panel into the lower next.

[214Chevy]

Looks really good. I like them!!

[two-piece]

Glad your wife is ok buddy.