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Here's a fairly ambitious installation of a Dayton 7" bass speaker and a Dayton 2" dome mid speaker mounted in place of the OEM Bose 10" door speaker. Tweeter goes in the stock 3.5" speaker location.
Last edited by Knob Jockey; May 31, 2021 at 04:45 AM.
Well ambitious is my middle name. I have my box/shelf roughed out. Don't laugh, they will look like part of the car when I get done. Those are not the woofers I'm using. They are trashed from some time back but they were awesome JBLs. Back in the day (25-30yrs) they were the best. Trying to decide what woofers will be the best and not subject to heat and sun rot as is what happened to the JBL's. I was looking at the Dayton 255s, 270s, and 265s. Any thought for my location?
Still thinking on the door solution 10" mid-range bass is pretty useless idea. Anyone sell those adaptor plates in your picture, or are those another homemade solution? Looks like their metal? Hard thin fiberboard probably works too.
There was a vendor on the Forum, RAAM Audio that sold adapter plates for the 10" Bose speaker cutout. You could get them pre-cut to accept a 6.5" speaker or blank so you could cut your own hole. Not sure if they are still in business.
They also sold a stiffener package for the door and Ensolite sound deadening materials.
I've seen some installs where the adapter plate was a piece of Plexi-glass. Doesn't have to be as thick as the fiber-board version to maintain the necessary rigidity.
Hi, I h1/4ad to go with the lesser cost Dayton Audio stuff. In my case I went with the 8: woofer, 2" dome midrange and 1" titanium dome tweeter. Got the doors and panels apart today to figure out what I could fit. Was pleased to see I could fit the 6.5" in the back side panels instead of the stock 5.2". Have spent way more than I originally thought in the sound build but it will be worth it.
Here's how my back build worked out. Those are Dayton woofers per your recommendation. All in all way less expensive than those fiberglass boxes, and I have a place to put amplifiers and stuff!!
Not a bad solution. I didn't want to lose my storage compartments and went with my own partition using 8" subs but they have the volume and space for 10's though I didn't feel the need to upgrade once I heard the finished result. I also disconnected the speakers in the sail panels and used just a front stage. The partition isolates the sound in front and makes it easy to hear with the top off. People scoff at the cheap Skar Audio components, but I have no complaints. Used 10" midbase in front with a 3.5" coax in the stock location. I'm also using an Audio Control DSP mounted on the front of the box and made my own interface box to run off the stock Nav unit - another choice I was advised against, but I like the way it came out. Oh, the gaps on the sides have been filled with a carpet filler so it looks more finished now.
Last edited by Long_AV8R; Jun 12, 2021 at 06:17 PM.
Hi, it took me a while of looking at this photo to understand what I was seeing. It looks like the user put some sort of thin foam adhesive sheet all over the door. I coudn't figure out why the 10" filler panel didn't have screws in it. Well it does, their just covered up by this thin foam stuff. Does anyone know what it is called and where I might buy some?
