Help me with a custom dash please!!!
 

:hi2:Just to start of i'm new to this forum and i'm finding alot of stuff useful on here! But one thing that I can not find anything about how to make a fiberglass dash or make a dash out of something else that looks nice and is tough too! I have a great idea of how i want to make a dash in my truck but i dont know where to start and what to buy in order to make it happen. Give everyone a idea I have a 1982 chevy its in great condition and i will have to post some pictures later. So if anyone could point me in the right direction to get me started that would be way awesome!! Another thing is that I want to move the stereo where it is stock(I hate the location of it now right under the climate control) I want to move it to where it is easier for the passenger to use also. so like just above the ashtray would be awesome.

Re: Help me with a custom dash please!!!
 

welcome to the forums!!!
About the dash there is a couple of people on here that have custom dashes hopefully they will chime in,but some of them used the stock dash and just fiberglassed them and there is one person that got his dash rhino lined looked pretty cool! But yea hopefully one of them helps out!

Re: Help me with a custom dash please!!!
 

Welcome to your addiction!!
I put mine overhead in my suburban.
Check it out in my sig below.

Re: Help me with a custom dash please!!!
 

Here is a guy that is building his dash and some info on fiberglass.

http://www.the12volt.com/installbay/...ID~115287~PN~1

Re: Help me with a custom dash please!!!
 

if you want to make a new stock looking one out of fiberglass heres how to do so
take your original dash put vasiline all over the inside then use 2part expanding foam and basicly will make a mold of your original dash then pull the mold off the vasiline used in the begining will make it easy to get the mold off then go and put more vasiline on the mold after its dryed lay your fiber glass matting over the mold and use a paint brush to brush on the fiperglass resin and hardner mix let dry pull off do some sanding and bondo cover in vinel or what ever you wish to use
heres a site with some desent prices on fiber glass materials

2 part expanding foam http://www.shopmaninc.com/foam.html

fiberglass mat
http://www.shopmaninc.com/mat.html

fiberglass resin
http://www.shopmaninc.com/polyesters.html

Re: Help me with a custom dash please!!!
 

Instead of buying all this stuff online who would carry it in stores??

Re: Help me with a custom dash please!!!
 

lowes/home depot/autozone/checker
its just a little cheaper online also if you have an auto paint store or other hardware store near by theyed probably have the stuff