white91formula

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been working on them on and off for about a week now, here is some pics, finally at the stage of using filler to fill in all the crevices and make the smooth enough to paint. who ever said that useing fiberglass is hard was wrong, i am also in the middle of my fiberglass sub box, i will have more pics as the stuff gets more finished hope you enjoy

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and to stay in the rules

Boomin Boy

you're just putting a 6.5 in there...no tweeter?

looks nice so far, i dont have patience for fibreglass work, but sooner or later it has to be done i suppose

white91formula

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yeah i had a set of 6.5 components laying around the garage so i figured i would put them to some use, they arn't anything special just some pioneers, eventually it will be all infinity


like you said it takes alot of patience, really isn't that hard, just alot of paitence


anyone got any ideas for getting the fiberglass to stick better to the plastic ?? i sanded the plastic with 60 grit before i glassed, but it is starting seperating along the edges but the kitty hair seems to be holding it on ther better.

9177

either scuff it up good or drill holes in the plastic and make a sort of riviet with the glass going through the holes and mushroming out on the other side

85TransAm406

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When i wrapped the fiberglass cloth around mine i stapled it to the back side, still holding after 2 years. i don't know about the speakers pointing straight back towards the driver's seat though, that's not gonna exactly do wonders for your soundstage, but it might be ok, and looks kinda like it'll take a bunch of room from your foot. here's a pic of mine,

84 1LE

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Nice Job,but i hope your carpet doesnt always look like that"

85TransAm406

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Yeah, yeah, i know, i had a heater core leak recently that i just fixed. But i'm goin to black interior/carpet, so i didn't bother to change it yet. And the motor's out of it right now, so i haven't bother to clean it either.

Red87SC

what did you use to start building it? i want some kick panels, but i dont know where to start, i think im just gonna build some so i can put 4"s in there, because blaupunkt makes some and all the other speakers in the car are blaupunkt. please do me a favor and make kind of an instruction list as to what you did, doesnt have to be detailed, i just want to know where to start, and where to go from there. thanx in advance

KBeez

Yeah I really wanna make some kickpanels, although I have never worked with fiberglass...
I just got a fairly nice set of Pioneer 6.5" 4-way speakers for 6$ for the pair from a freshly brought in Prelude at the local scrapyard, and thought they'd compliment nicely with the front 4x6's and the rear 6x9's.
I wanna build kickpanels that will fit a 6.5", and I'll put a little hole in for a tweeter too, that way I can use the 4-ways for now, then later scrap all the speakers for a focal 3-way component set, and I'll already have the kick panels done! woot!

85TransAm406

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Mine have a 4" mid and a 1" tweeter. It's not too difficult.
As mine is a teardrop shape, i'll use that as an example, but you can adapt it to a round shape.

1) I made a teardrop shape out of MDF, with the holes for the mid and tweet. then i installed the mid into the pieces that i made, to make sure i had clearance.
2) then i held the piece of wood against the kickpanel (installed in the car) to figure out the angle i wanted. (I used a laser pointer to aim the tweeter, to be sure it was aimed under the dash and over the center console, not neccesary, but i'm a stickler for soundstage placement, as i used to work in a stereo shop and compete)
3) with the angle figured, i used another piece of wood to support the teardrop. with that done, i removed the kick, and duplicated the angle on the other side.
4)I then used a strip of posterboard 1" wide to go around the teardrop, and stapled it to the sides. then i wrapped the entire thing with speaker cloth, and coated it with resin, after it dried, i cut out the teardrop opening with a dremel. Then it's just sanding, applying filler (or fiberglass mat and resin) shaping more, and going back and forth like that until the desired shape is how you want it.
5) You might notice that my grilles are inset, that's just because i haven't made spacers that go behind them, then they would sit flush. The spacers are to keep the mids from rubbing on the grille.

I did my door pods pretty much the same way (see pic)

Red87SC

thats a really nice setup 85, did you use the stock doorpanel and tear off all the stock stuff of did u build your own and uphoster it? i wanted to do somethin like that in my 84, so i was just wondering how u did it. thanx

85TransAm406

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it's a new panel made from 1/8" treated plywood, with the stock upper plastic piece screwed to it. I used the stock panel as a template, and the new panel is attatched only by the armrest, and by the screws that attach the door pod, which is made from an MDF base, and the pod is made in the same manner as the kicks. The boston pro 6.5" speakers are pretty deep, so i had to cut some of the doorskin behind it, and it barely clears the power window motor. The door is internally dampened with spray-on sound deadener and then has dynamat extreme behind the panel. This makes for a pretty heavy setup, however, so make sure your door hinges are in reasonable shape however, the door is rattle free with 350 RMS watts of midbass through the mids.

85TransAm406

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I can get clearer pics this weekend with my new digital camera, if you want to see it better. These were made with my dad's cam that I didn't have the right software for. If you're not in a hurry, i'll take some pics when i take the door panels and kicks out to sell them. You can get a pretty good look when i take it apart and have the speakers out.

white91formula

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i started off with a set of stock kick panels, cut the speaker ring out of mdf and then cut out a few brakets, and then screwed them and the ring to the kick panel how i wanted it to be. Then i covered the entire thing in a old tshirt which i stretched out, and covered it wtih fiberglass, once that was dry it gave a good base for 2 layers of more resin glass and matt, i only used 3 layers should be more then engouh. sanded that all down and cleaned off the speaker ring, and then used bondo-glass and regular bondo to finish teh speaker as you would do to make it so i can paint it. I plan on finishing it with truck bedliner tho so it is more durable.

i have some pics of the rings attached before i did the glass i will look for them and post them later