My car roof is done

I promised to come back with some pictures of my car and the roof. Here they are, and I'm very pleased over the result. When I chose the color of the fabric I didn't think of the white color of all the fitings.

As you can see, everything got very smooth and nice. It's not like X-Zibit's Pimp my ride, but now I'm not embarrased to give my friends a ride anymore. I will say the project was successful.
I understand that there was a reason why the roof earlier was white and not black. It has got quite a bit more hot inside now. It's not a big problem, cause it's rarely too hot in Norway anyway. As you can see at this picture, I used the same fabric on everything. I hate when it looks like a puzzle of random colors. I have already started on a new project. I will try to make a mid woofer in the front middle compartment. It will be a vented little box of about 9 litres. The woofer will be a P.Audio TS-6. Pictures will come

The roof project.

Here are some pictures of my project... It took me some more time than I had expected. So it's still not finished, but I am pleased of it so far. After cleaning the pressed paperboard for sponge, at least the sponge that was possible to remove, I gave everything a treatment with polyester. I thought it may make the roof a bit stiffer and also give the new glue some resonable chance to get a grip. I hope it also will prevent the "good" sponge to roten. But it made some difficulties too. Everything got very hard, and I have to do some work to make everything smooth and nice before I attach the new carpet. I want this to look nice. I want it to be professional. As you can see, there are some sponge left. I have to sander a bit to make it smooth, or use some kind of filler. I go for the sander first, and then we see... I also repair some damages. You can see at the top.


I use a special kind of glue to attach the new carpet. I have used it once before and was very pleased of the the quality of it. So Comet glue on spray are highly recomanded. It have been prevously used to glue rubber finish onto some home made speakers. Yes rubber finnish. You may ask why, but the quality of rubber is great. For sound it makes some great work against resonance in the cabinet, wich was the main reason of the use. It also add some rough look of the speakers. Too bad i didn't do the preparing work too well. The speaker are now in my basement striped of rubber. I tell you, cleaning the rubber for glue was a painful timeconsupted prosess I hope to avoid in the future. I rather buy new rubber next time.