Finally A Little Progress
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From: Summerland B.C. Canada
Finally A Little Progress
My budget bose upgrade is slowly but surely moving along. I built my speaker mounts so i can finally install something into the vette 
Heres a few pics of my progress
Heres a few pics of my progress
Last edited by AGENT 86; Feb 22, 2005 at 09:33 PM.
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From: Fort Knox
Looks like you're doing almost the exact thing I did today....But im squeezing in 8" subs in the door panels of my 86 
... Had to break out the shoehorn....I was about to put a pair of Lanzar DC 5's into my door panels, when I rememberd I had some Free Air 8" subs down in the basement id been saving for a rainy day.....Hmmmm, looks like i'll be having some serious midbass soon 
Good job tho, it looks like yer ahead of me today!
snoopdan
... Had to break out the shoehorn....I was about to put a pair of Lanzar DC 5's into my door panels, when I rememberd I had some Free Air 8" subs down in the basement id been saving for a rainy day.....Hmmmm, looks like i'll be having some serious midbass soon Good job tho, it looks like yer ahead of me today!
snoopdan
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I can see being able to get 8's in there 
My 6 1/2's are an easy fit. I test fitted the mounts last night. Looks like i wasn't paying too good attention when i made the front mounts. I see now that the inner door panel has a bend at one point. Back to the laboratory to belt sand 1/4'' to nothing over the top 1 3/4'' of the front mounts. This delay could set me back a week 
My 6 1/2's are an easy fit. I test fitted the mounts last night. Looks like i wasn't paying too good attention when i made the front mounts. I see now that the inner door panel has a bend at one point. Back to the laboratory to belt sand 1/4'' to nothing over the top 1 3/4'' of the front mounts.
This delay could set me back a week
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From: Summerland B.C. Canada
Originally Posted by snoopdan
oh, I have no doubt im putting them in there, there is no way the factory grilles are going over these boys.
snoopdan
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WOW!!!!
how did you make the holes so nice and round? What tool did you use..
Also the White pieces are those wood as well? I cannot tell fromt he pictures..
would you be willing to make a second set of the rears to sell?
how did you make the holes so nice and round? What tool did you use..
Also the White pieces are those wood as well? I cannot tell fromt he pictures..
would you be willing to make a second set of the rears to sell?
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From: Fort Knox
Originally Posted by -=Jeff=-
WOW!!!!
how did you make the holes so nice and round? What tool did you use..
Also the White pieces are those wood as well? I cannot tell fromt he pictures..
would you be willing to make a second set of the rears to sell?
how did you make the holes so nice and round? What tool did you use..
Also the White pieces are those wood as well? I cannot tell fromt he pictures..
would you be willing to make a second set of the rears to sell?
Heh, youd be amazed what a little bit of sanding and some paint will do.
I have a couple of crappy 8's right now to put in my door panels, they JUST fit between the top of the door arm molding, and down to where the bottom carpet comes to the bottom door railing, with like, VERY little margin for error. I figure, if i am going thu the effort of hacking up the door, I might as well go all the way. The door panels are already in my office. torn apart, ready to put in some cold cathodes and some LED replacements
snoopdan
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From: Summerland B.C. Canada
Originally Posted by -=Jeff=-
WOW!!!!
how did you make the holes so nice and round? What tool did you use..
Also the White pieces are those wood as well? I cannot tell fromt he pictures..
would you be willing to make a second set of the rears to sell?
how did you make the holes so nice and round? What tool did you use..
Also the White pieces are those wood as well? I cannot tell fromt he pictures..
would you be willing to make a second set of the rears to sell?
I'm too busy at this time to commit to any extra work. It is a simple job that i'm sure you could do with a simple jig saw.
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From: Fort Knox
This is what im tennatively planing for my door panel... Im just putting these UA8's in there temp as for just somthing to fit it with, then move up to maybe a Koda 8, or RE8.. Im also getting a grille for it from Parts Express, they have some clean looking micro waffle grilles that look stockish.
I hooked both door panels up in the house to some Altec Bookshelf speakers with the mids turned off, and put about 150 watts on them per side, actively crossed over, and they were stupid loud. Im sure they'll get over my exhaust at the very least. Im really just screwing around, if you read this post 6 months from now during a search, by all means dont do what I did. 
snoopdan
I hooked both door panels up in the house to some Altec Bookshelf speakers with the mids turned off, and put about 150 watts on them per side, actively crossed over, and they were stupid loud. Im sure they'll get over my exhaust at the very least.
Im really just screwing around, if you read this post 6 months from now during a search, by all means dont do what I did. snoopdan
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From: High Plains Drifter Fayetteville, AR
Originally Posted by snoopdan
I hooked both door panels up in the house to some Altec Bookshelf speakers with the mids turned off, and put about 150 watts on them per side, actively crossed over, and they were stupid loud. Im sure they'll get over my exhaust at the very least.
Im really just screwing around, if you read this post 6 months from now during a search, by all means dont do what I did. snoopdan
What are you going to do about the rattles
in the door? I can only imagine how badly that will rattle the door lock and door pull rods. 