Quad Pod ( 60mm ) for the FD
 

Ok so I have been asked by some to make a tutorial on building a Quad Pod out of PVC. I made a 52mm which was harder because the PVC pieces were no long enough to accommodate the deep gauges. The 60mm however was a little easier to work with, but still took many many hours to build.

Here are some pics of the process

Placing them on a spare dash I acquired from a very good friend ( Thanks Gringo Grande )
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Laying them out and making sure the back of the gauges all line up. After I got them to where I wanted them i used PVC glue to stick them together.
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Glued in place and placing it on the dash to see how it looked
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Glued in place with the gauges in the pod
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Finally placed the original speaker grill on the dash without the metal mesh and fiber glassed the pod to the dash piece.
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Now comes the hard work. Sand paper and a big arm workout. Sand paper used was mostly 100-150 to take away the heavier urethane build up
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More of sanding and urethane body filler
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Moar sanding
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First coat of primer

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Fine sanding in between primer coats, The sand paper used here was 220 after the first coat and 320 after the second.

Second coat
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This is the last step after sanding the second coat of primer, painting the pod. I used flat black paint since I am not a fan of shiny interior pieces.

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I hope you guys enjoyed reading this and if you decide to tackle this I will be more than happy to assist any of you. The entire cost of supplies between PVC, glue, fiberglass, resin, and sand paper was close to $60 in case anyone wants to know :-)

Turned out really nice and a good DIY! Thanks for sharing that!

Dale

You are very welcome. I have some other things I have done that I have not created a DIY on, but I sure will.

Thanks :-)

dude, this is awesome! Maybe group buy?

Nice work. :nod:

LOL I am not sure about a group buy. There is not easy way of molding this out of Fiberglass to make a easier piece. It takes a lot of time and finess getting it done right.

I would not mind making some for you guys, but dont expect them to be done in a week. Also I need the dash speaker grill to attach it to the pod.

Thank you ;-)

wow great work. thanks for the DIY. not a huge fan of running gauges on the pillar so i'm interested in trying this

That came out very nice, good job :icon_tup:

No problem guys. Thanks for the likes :-) means a lot!

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hi!!! can u make it a two 60mm pod? instead of four!!!!cant find it anywhere for my 2 apexi 60mm gauges.let me know ?????

cool! thanks so much!

Awesome!!!!

[QUOTE=zombiemaniac;11351706]hi!!! can u make it a two 60mm pod? instead of four!!!!cant find it anywhere for my 2 apexi 60mm gauges.let me know ?????

I will give that a shot tonight. I will line the pods tonight and post some pics so you can see what it looks like and go from there. I need to you send me your 5th speaker grill though.

sounds cool!but rememeber I want them to be facing the driver a bit not straight!! for better reading when driving!!!





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[QUOTE=zombiemaniac;11352740]sounds cool!but rememeber I want them to be facing the driver a bit not straight!! for better reading when driving!!!





I got you man. Ill send pics of different angles. Which ever one you like ill build.

send pics to: kaneca19@gmail.com




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Really nice work!

Thanks Re-Amemiya. I havent been able to get anything yet. I got into replacing the twins on my car and I decided to go an rip out the rats nest and go non sequential.

As soon as I get that under control ill shoot you some pics.

The finished piece looks like a single molding... freaking outstanding work!

Nice work but what happened to the feed hood in the backround??????

^ I was wondering about that too, probably accident?