How To Make Your Own Aluminum Door Panels

In this video i make some sick cheap diy door panels for the drift car.

How to make your own aluminum door panels.

Pretty easy to make and looks so much cleaner than bare door s. Lets get to work. This series of videos will walk you through building custom interior door panels. This is done by first mixing the resin with its activator hardener per the instructions on the label of the resin container.

Items you will need 2 pieces of 48 by 48 by 1 8 inch hardboard old door panel kraft paper if needed masking tape if needed utility knife 8 clamps drill drill bit jigsaw spray adhesive headliner foam fabric stapler. Mark simpson demonstrates on a 1962 oldsmobile door panel how to create custom car door panels using abs board and pre sewn top stitch panels from ez boy interiors. Apply it with a short hair inexpensive paint brush. Building a show quality interior to match the rest of your build can be a daunting task.

For most classic car restorers sewing together upholstery is an unlearned skill. I used some 3m trim adhesive make sure it won t eat foam from napa and a quart of rubber contact cement. I set up the full sheet of cardboard on top of a clean sheet of plywood on some sawhorses in the middle of the garage so i could work around it. Start by tracing the patterns onto the new cardboard that is your door panel.

Apply your first coat of resin after mixing it up. Get a bead roller. For each door panel i use 1 8 thick hdpe plastic and self. However with a little instruction and a broad selection of car interior upholstery parts the task is made easier than you might think.

This is part one of hagan street rods modular door panel system. Learn how to make a cowl panel from scratch with a few tools from eastwood.