As you can see, i've made a decent hinge.
The alloy plates that were supposed to mount on the sides of the tray ended up with the trash.
The ones you see on this pictures still need to be polished

Than i used a big piece of glass to create a large piece of carbon. Clearly it still needs some layers of varnish.

These have been cut into several pieces.
These parts will be mounted on the inside of the tray (visible when opened)

 

Afterward i made a cover for the bottom of the trunk.
A hell of a job.


The beautifull curves a not visible on the picture.

This piece is mounted using 5 screws, still 3 visible (for now...)




This is the front view, for this i still have a cool trick up my sleeve, but more details lateron.

Here it shows that my side pieces are too long, but i did that on purpose.
It als shows that the bottom needs some filling so that everything become nice and smooth.


On this pic i show you were i've stopped with the curver. the staight mdf piece will eventually become round. i really hate straight lines!

 

These 2 holes will be used to guide the speakerwires. I've made them big enough so that it doesn't create friction when the entire things moves up and down.

 

In the meanwhile i've reinforced the suspension of the cross over tray and spray painted it black


I've also modified the tray itself. As you can see, the alloy and plexi parts are no longer going all the way down.



I've also modified the curver here and there.






I created some nice curves on the side pannels so that they nicely fit te curver.

 

I'm speechless. Incredible craftsmanship.

 

Amazing to see all this fabrication and detail for a 323i!! looks better than the m3!

 

Fantastic build! You sir, are highly talented.

 

Amazing work, you have a great talant

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I've mounted a alloy bracket left and right xich will be used to hold the curver.


This is the minimum margin.




When opened, you see the small carbon border. I thing this is the nicest look.


Overall picture

The front piece of this set up will be mounted seperately. This will be a huge task!

 

Because i had to mill some parts, i've integrated my uppermill in wy workbench.



Once this was done, i was ready to start. The alu part on this picture will be mounted on the frontside of the crossovertray.
First is made a dummy out of cardboard. This was necesary to have a preview of the actual result.



Afterwards i made a drawing on a 8mm MDF board

Afterwards i used an electrical saw to cut everything out.
Then i mounted a smal piece of wood on top of it, so that it was easy to work with my copymill