yellow kevlar plus wood = funky yellow green doors

So the wood color and the kevlar just don't get along - it ended up somewhere between yellow and green, and not very attractive...

Talking to a neighbor today, I decided to tint the skim coat black.  I thought It'd be cool to see the weave of the kevlar, but that color just has to go.  Oh smell.

New door panels

Insanity or genius?  Long ago, I bought a set of those laser cut plywood panels from Aardvarc.  They're really nice!  I thought I'd clad them in thin aluminum sheet, but when the sheet got thick enough to feel like you wouldn't dent it, it was really heavy.  So, why not kevlar?

My current plan is to kevlar the inside, give it a nice skim coat, epoxy seal the outside, and leave them like that.  I'll take the tops to the powdercoater and give them the same silver color as the roll bar since they'll be exposed.  Hopefully, it'll be a cool look.  If not, it'll be one hell of a door card to paint or cover with new material!

30 year old vinyl is ugly.

Light sand for prep.

Bulletproof!

First coat of system 3 epoxy.  Each door got about 200 mL.

Not the greatest lighting, but some pics of the exterior...

Finished instrument cluster!

I may never use it, but it makes me very happy that I could remove the whole cluster in 30 seconds by disconnecting one (crazy sexy) connector.  Maybe I'm late to the party, but I found these Deutsch connectors on Ebay and now must use them for everything.  Wonder how to get one into the dining room table...