Mercedes Benz C 63 AMG sail panels for Focal Utopia M tweeter by LBaudio

Started to work on Sails for Merc C AMG... Those will be two part sails where one part will be wrapped in leather, and the center piece - insert will be painted in cars paint. Here are pics of fabrication. Ill post finished pics after the customer receive them.


so started with original part - I applyed a layer of fiberglass over the entire sail panel after it was sanded down and drilled a bounch of holes


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trimmed and sanded down
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Made a duplicate of sail fascia out of fiberglass that will serve as base for insert
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trimmed
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next step was positioning of tweeter cups (Thanks to Peter Steinbacher/PSsound for providing them), paint was removed from cups, everything was taped off with ALU tape. Tweeter cups were glued to the base with hot mixed filler
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transition from tweeter cup to base was smoothed out, started to work on shape design
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next step was to smooth transition to the original sail panel with gap between the two pieces.
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guiding coat applyed
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primer applyed and sanded down up to 2000 grit water sandpaper
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in meanwhile outer part of sails was wrapped in leather

test fit
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everything fits like a glow,... center pieces are getting second layer of primer and then they will be ready for paint.

heres pictures of painted inserts and assembled.
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Dude! That's freaking awesome!

Thanks man!