Pouring foam on side panels

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I got the top section near the beltline clearanced today, and plan to start laying up the fiberglass in the next day or so. I think I'm going to put two layers of 4 oz. glass cloth and 2 layers of 1.5 oz glass mat on it. It's weird, but the glass cloth is weighed per square yard and the mat per square foot, so the mat is actually thicker. This layup should get me somewhere close to 1/16" of overall thickness, which I think is plenty. I'll do the final clearancing of the sections as I go, to make sure the leather fits tight.

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Well I cut the foam down to 1/4" from the height I need it (1/16" fiberglass, 1/8" upholstery foam, and 1/16" leather). I found out I can only use one layer of 4 oz. cloth and one layer of 1.5 oz mat to get the thickness I need. I'm surprised that the resin adds that much but the mat seems to absorb a lot of it and it swells. It starts out about .020" thick and probably swells to double that. I used a lot of resin so I had something to sand away, and it turned out almost spot on. I only have the top sections of the front panels done so far but the spears fit really well. Getting the gaps right is time-consuming.

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Update

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Continued here:

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