2000 Impala - (This is some Bulltish)

titanicmusic14 · 02-18-2008, 02:11 AM

I'm so mad at this fabrication stuff that my nerves have gone bad.
My car battery died during my frustrating process.
I've gotta finish this later...
I stupidly bought the wrong bondo. Not entirely wrong just not the one I needed first. After my third bezel attempt I realized it wasnt gonna work. I now have bondo hair and am still making my dash. Its the pic with the lcd in a plastic bag.

Slammed · 02-19-2008, 05:39 AM

if at first you dont succeed try try agian

just take your time man you will get it

titanicmusic14 · 02-19-2008, 09:47 AM

Ok so here is the update... I've got some good news and some bad news. MY SCREEN GOT SCRATCHED so I'm kinda *****in. I dont really wanna spend the fifty to get another plastic touch panel but its all good it's not deep and it wont be that noticeable while the screen is in use. whatever. I took it out of the mold last night. Please dont call me a dummy for having it in their in the first place. MORE BAD NEWS. As you can see I have the bondo-hair plastic mold in there and its hard as a rock which is good BUT it cracked on both sides as I was trying to remove the screen BUT the good news is that I will Epoxy glue it back into place, drill holes on throught the sides of the dash and put bondo-hair on both sides to create a paneled layer effect and that should definitely have that bad boy in there.

How the heck do I sand this thing down. I have all the sandpaper in the world but it takes forever to get anything going. How am I supposed to make it look all factory and thing if it takes 20 minutes to grind a corner? Other than that its going ok. I am in school so I cant devote enough time to finishing it as I would like. So I will try to give it like a half an hr a day. Once I get home tonite I will stop by home depot and get that epoxy glue to glue the piece back in and then bondo on top to clean it up. OH and I find it so much easier to use latex gloves and your finger to get the project going. Using Popsicle sticks just isn't cutting it. I've been back and forth to home depot. This project is getting on my nerves.

System:
I dont really have one. I have a screen, EBY701.
I have a laptop that I will be using for the project but it doesnt have a harddrive. I have another laptop that I use to get the setup started with roadrunner, Iguidance and soon to get the bluetooth phone stuff.

krnpimpsta · 02-19-2008, 10:03 AM

Bondo is pretty tough/hard/inflexible from what I hear. Have you tried something like Dynotron bumper repair kit? It hardens to the consistency of plastic and flexes like plastic so it is less likely to crack/etc.

titanicmusic14 · 02-19-2008, 08:59 PM

I am now content with bondo hair. I bought a drill today and some sanding attachments so once this drill charges up I will give it a go. Since it is a drill I would assume that it would sand way faster than my hand. I've wasted about 30 in sanding products. But its all good. Tommorow when I get off of work I'm gonna try to and one last (hopefully) layer of bondo to fill in the holes in my setup. I drilled holes in my last setup so lets see what happens tommorow.

titanicmusic14 · 05-26-2008, 10:32 PM

Should i quit and just pay somebody? my battery died . My wood assembly broke , i mean i like sat on it when I was with my lady friend in the back seat trying to see how roomy impalas are. Then i ran out of tools. my new jigsaw broke. so I am back at square one. Oh and my 2 and yes 2 laptops broke . So that motherboard you see is the new Compaq Evo that I will be building a box for to see in the corner of my trunk. Any suggestions? Tutor me!!! I screwed the screen back in without all that plastic crap. Its just wood and a screen and then hopefully i will mold all around and then I can get to constructing the wood case for the comp. I have hinges and stuff and Paint so it should come out pretty nice.

titanicmusic14 · 05-29-2008, 10:11 AM

i got my hands on my roommates digital camera.

titanicmusic14 · 05-29-2008, 10:32 AM

As you can see I have some wonderful plans for taking that board there and building a case. The case is going to made out of some wood I got from home depot. I am debating whether I am going to cut out the middle to put plexiglass and color fans and all that junk. I have yet to buy the m2-atx for my compaq evo motherboard. I dont even know if its compatible but i do know its a p4 and they say that works. Once i get that I will begin construction. Can someone please tell me what I can use to mold this dashboard closed so that I can have the screen mounted in shut. In the pictures you can see I pushed everything to where I would hopefully like to mount them. an IDE drive in the glove box would be nice. You see my rikaline gps reciever. I have been able to test all these things out and I will take pics of them. I like taking pictures obviously. I have questions , if you look in my pics you see me holding a rectangular box, this is the pxgm24 it allows me an auxillary port for my stock radio which is not so great. Once I start using that It will give me two auxillary hookups. It also functions as a acc wire for any peripherals that I might have at the touch of a button on my steering wheel but I am afraid that with that one touch of a button it will be cuttin of my stuff by accident too much. In one of the pics i hold a wire that has lots of wires on it. That is me pulling the rug back to expose the wires that lead to my lights in the back as well as the thing next to my thumb which is the power to my cd changer (that i dont have) Could this power my computer? who knows?
I will be mounting a keyhole camera once the ball gets rolling.
I would like to wire a switch to cut on my radar detector. In that area where you see my cigarrette lighter I would like to cut into that and extend it to where the overhead compas thing in the impala and put my radar there to be controlled by switch. where the cigarrete thing is I would like to build a little control panel. THat other switch you see me holding in the pictures is to that powered subwoofer you see back there. I would like to control that too. because that is a potentiometer not an on off . Impalas are funny about the acc power. it turns on as soon as i hit the alarm and it turns of 25 sec after I arm it. So it drains real nice. So valet switches for all my peripherals would be nice. And plus when I am in the hood . I dont need unnecessary lights. oh and how do you mount a cam in the keyhole and key the wires out of the way. Do you drill?

Bigseven74 · 05-29-2008, 11:38 AM

... dont cut anymore on the car until you know what look you want. you cant build a skyscraper by hacking at stuff and sticking things together. what i'm saying is you need more planning. learn more about different types of builds. look at other Impalas get ideals. info is what you need otherwise your looking at a better chance of double spending. you also need to clean the chevy up a pc need room to breathe. hope that helps, at least put you on the right track.