Door project almost complete...
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Door project almost complete...
Not 100% yet but basically this is what I did to loose the crappy bose system that rattled and overloaded and sounds like crap. Even after I replaced the speakers, the tweeters were way down in the cavity of the door and not making a direct shot to the ears. Worse yet the doors would rattle and buzz. The response was pretty peaky too when I put it on my RTA.
So I made custom mounts of MDF with "rings" that push out and angle the speakers. I also treated the doors by removing the side impact foam. All it did was squeek and I tried to glue it down to no avail. Then I used felt and dampened the friction fittings of the door. I also glued down the plastic black cage behind the grilles and the emblums of the grills. I also found out the system has the smoothest response with the tweeters in reverse polarity to the mids as verified by my real time analyzer. I put the door panels back on and after some EQing wow it sounds good!
I still have not treated the doors or the door skins as I ran out of time money and motivation and I wanted to see if there were any other rattles.
Pics of the rings are here, but I had moved the tweeters cause I didnt realize the L and R grilles were different sized. http://forums.corvetteforum.com/zerothread?id=620212
Next is to finish the bass :cheers:
So I made custom mounts of MDF with "rings" that push out and angle the speakers. I also treated the doors by removing the side impact foam. All it did was squeek and I tried to glue it down to no avail. Then I used felt and dampened the friction fittings of the door. I also glued down the plastic black cage behind the grilles and the emblums of the grills. I also found out the system has the smoothest response with the tweeters in reverse polarity to the mids as verified by my real time analyzer. I put the door panels back on and after some EQing wow it sounds good!
I still have not treated the doors or the door skins as I ran out of time money and motivation and I wanted to see if there were any other rattles.
Pics of the rings are here, but I had moved the tweeters cause I didnt realize the L and R grilles were different sized. http://forums.corvetteforum.com/zerothread?id=620212
Next is to finish the bass :cheers:
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Race Director
Joined: Dec 2002
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From: Baltimore suburbs Maryland
Re: Door project almost complete... (Conquer)
Yeah, if you take both the grills off the car, you'll find that one is slightly skinnier then the other. Thus, the way I had my tweeters angled, one of them wouldnt fit and I had to improvise.
