If you get a wild hair to do the fiberglass thing, make sure you go light on the resin for the first sheet. If you have never done glass work... I'd avoid this project. It's going to eat your plastic up if you soak it. If I was doing it, I'd pull the dash pod off and remove the vinyl cover. You may have to tape the cracks on the plastic to keep the pod from crumbling. Then I would drape a relatively thin sheet of glass cloth, like 3 oz. E-glass on it while wetting it with a light coat of resin. I'd mix hot, so that it would get hard quickly, say 15 minutes. Once I had it all covered and I was happy with the shape, Id hit it with another 3oz layer and soak it good. You could even go to 4oz or 6 oz for thickness. It should hold shape even if the plastic starts to fail. Get is smooth. Once it's hardened, you should be able to pop the old pod out and have a decent rough mold for the new one. Lay another 3oz sheet on the inside, but soak it good and make it as smooth as you can. Once it's hard, make some wood supports to hold shape and glass them to the outside of the new mold. Once you have a pretty good mold of the pod, sand the inside very smooth then shoot it with black gelcoat. Color sand the black, polish it up.. and wax it. Ready to build pods for all your friends. You could probably sell 50 of them to disgruntled SLM owners and with a good mold, they should come out nice. You could even tell Harvy you are making custom SLM dashes and to send you customers.
I know.. sounds like a pie in the sky, but it's what I'd do if I still had my 95 slm.
I know.. sounds like a pie in the sky, but it's what I'd do if I still had my 95 slm.
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