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Liam
10-01-11, 07:08 PM
I'm in need of some advice and opinions. I'm on a tight budget and cannot afford carbon fibre rear door cards/panels so I was thinking about making my own. I was thinking about using plywood wrapped in leather effect material? What would be the best thickness plywood to use, i'm currently looking at 9mm? Also what's peoples opinions of this and does anyone have any pictures of something similar to what I want. Thanks in advance. :thumb:
mowgli
10-01-11, 07:13 PM
5-6mm hardboard is all you need.... 9mm is just to big & heavy.... why not get some carbon lookylikey wrap material & fit that to the hardboard?? if you have the original cards, it would be dead easy to strip & recover them.
Liam
10-01-11, 07:38 PM
5-6mm hardboard is all you need.... 9mm is just to big & heavy.... why not get some carbon lookylikey wrap material & fit that to the hardboard?? if you have the original cards, it would be dead easy to strip & recover them.

I've been looking around on the net and I think that I am going to go with 5mm hardboard and cover in black faux suede! I've got the original cards so it should be easy as p**s.
Iain
10-01-11, 07:40 PM
If you can find some, early Novas/vans came with flat panels in the back (no arm rests or shelf supports). Look ideal for retrimming/painting and very light.
Pistol Pete
10-01-11, 08:00 PM
As Mowgli says, hardboard will be fine. Having said that, if you have the old ones just recover those. Fixing them to the doors is easy then!
Bubba
10-01-11, 08:43 PM
i haz 1mm aluminium :d
brucer
10-01-11, 09:01 PM
look here in my WIP thread, have done exactly what you wanted in your first post. cost around 30-40quid for it all.

http://www.pngclub.com/forum/showthread.php?t=131012&page=25&highlight=brucers
Liam
10-01-11, 09:09 PM
look here in my WIP thread, have done exactly what you wanted in your first post. cost around 30-40quid for it all.

http://www.pngclub.com/forum/showthread.php?t=131012&page=25&highlight=brucers

Looks nice...:thumb: I may now be tempted to go back to leather.
Liam
15-01-11, 10:38 PM
Decided to go with suede so got some ordered and only managed to recover the drivers side door card today. What do people think:

http://i287.photobucket.com/albums/ll121/liampoulton/100_3364.jpg
http://i287.photobucket.com/albums/ll121/liampoulton/100_3368.jpg
http://i287.photobucket.com/albums/ll121/liampoulton/100_3369.jpg
http://i287.photobucket.com/albums/ll121/liampoulton/100_3370.jpg
http://i287.photobucket.com/albums/ll121/liampoulton/100_3382.jpg
http://i287.photobucket.com/albums/ll121/liampoulton/100_3380.jpg
http://i287.photobucket.com/albums/ll121/liampoulton/100_3377.jpg
mowgli
15-01-11, 10:40 PM
nice & tidy. good work
Liam
15-01-11, 11:44 PM
nice & tidy. good work

Cheers.