I got around to cutting the doors. I only did the driver door since I want to make sure everything works just fine and then I'll move to the passenger door. I accidentally messed up by cutting the size of the speaker instead of the cutout diameter. It's not too big of a deal, just need to make the baffle a little bigger and cut more of the door panel, maybe by half an inch each side.

With the door panel I placed the thin foam gasket that came with the mids where I would want the mid to be so that it would fit well in the area I need it to be.





Took the door panel off and marked with a Sharpie where I need to cut.





Did the actual cut with a jigsaw. It was very easy and I found it to cut in a circle by itself somehow. I was hardly turning the jigsaw itself I started using some sheet metal cutters at first but felt it would take too long and the jigsaw was a good idea. The little piece in the upper left corner sticking out has been removed, just not pictured.





Put the door panel back on to see if I needed to make any adjustments, but it seems it turned out quite well.





Got my Sharpie out again and traced where the door panel was so that I know how to cut my baffles without them touching the door panel itself.





Reason I did that is because I will be using 1" baffles which will more than likely work. If not, 1.25" baffles will definitely work. As you can see I have a little under 3/4" of space from the door to the door panel, so anything larger than that, the baffles will not allow the door to remain in place via the clips.



Tested to see how the mid would with the door panel on. I inverted it to see better and get a better idea since as I mentioned, if the baffles are in place, the door panel will be sticking out. Everything seems to be going well.





Tomorrow I will be cutting the door panel a little and start on the baffles. I plan to trace the stock speaker grill so I have a general idea what the maximum size and shape the baffle should be within.

 

Didn't do any baffle work today since I was waiting on a call for something, and won't be able to tomorrow. Might be able to on Thursday or Friday. I did check some things out though. My stock locations for the tweeters are up on the dash by the windshield. I was getting reflections off glass to the dash and it messed with the imaging so I got a dash mat. I am going to end up doing the tweeters in the A Pillars.

They were quite easy to take off (thank goodness). Here is a picture of it nearly taken off.



A shot of where the wires will come, which will be on the left side by the A Pillar. You can also see where the tweeters were originally mounted. I will either use my 2nd dash mat since it doesn't have the openings for tweeters or I will cover them with speaker grill cloth I just bought.



Reverse side of the A pillar panel and where the tweeter will be mounted.



I have plenty of room thanks to the short mounting depth of the Zapco tweeters. It doesn't look like there is in the pictures, but visible to the human eye there is plenty of room.









General location of where the tweeter will go.







As I just mentioned, I bought some speaker grill cloth. Part of it will be for the lower portion of the door panel and another part will be for the rear deck cover. The only holes that will remain uncovered will be the furthest left and right one on the top (or rear) and the two small ones in the center bottom (or front). Everything else will be covered.

 

Got the speaker grille cloth for the doors, a pillar and rear deck. The one on the right I got two of for the rear deck and the a pillars, the one on the right for the lower portion of the door panel and even the triangle piece on the door.



The light color is VERY similar to the stock color, good choice





The brown is a bit darker, but it still will look pretty good. You can see the triangle piece in this photo I mentioned earlier. I'll probably cover that so the door doesn't look awkward.





Didn't get to do much today since I was busy running errands and same for tomorrow. I did use a dremel to trim down the trim ring for the head unit, but I don't like the way it came out. It will suffice, but I'd like a closer fit to the unit. I plan to go to the junkyard and pick up some door panels possibly and even see if they have the center piece where the head unit goes. If they do and it's not too bad of a price, I'll buy it and try some fiberglassing.

 

Got done with one baffle, it should work. I decided that the easiest way to do it would be a square, only thing is there is a little hump as you can see.



I cut out a square, rectangle actually, 8" x 7.5" and cut off one of the corners



I was going to use another 1/2" baffle, but I figured I'll be safe and do 3/4". I used the cover for the gallon of spectrum I have, traced it, and cut it. Then I cut out a mounting hole using a previous baffle.



Test fits:









Fits fine in the door



Glued last night and its ready. Figured I wouldn't use screws so it won't split it and so I don't have to worry about some screws hitting others.



I'll do the other one this weekend.

 

I didn't get to work on anything over the weekend, not a big deal, but I did pick up a Dremel kit since the one I had bought was missing a couple pieces. I also found a dremel attachment to shave some wood which will make it easier when I trim the top and bottom portions of the circular baffle (this way I won't need to cut the door panels more than I need to.

I also will be adding a second Odyssey PC 2150 to my setup. Got it for a good deal. If anyone in the So Cal area needs one, there is still one more for sale, PM me and I'll get you details. The enclosure will probably be built, or start getting built either this or next weekend.

Today I will trim the top and bottom of the circle baffle and if I have the chance I'll cut the passenger door and work on the baffles for that side. More than likely that will have to wait till tomorrow.[/align]

 

I just decided that I’m not going to use the 18� 5200. I have to make a few calls and send out a few emails to figure out what I’ll get. Reason why I have the sudden change in mind is because one of the tinsel leads came off from the spider and a couple are loose. Also, this somehow happened to the coil.





The driver still works just fine and I’ve been playing it like this for quite some time. I noticed this several months back when I was building a new enclosure for it. I’m going to get it reconed, but I have to see if whoever does the recone can make it similar to what it is. Basically I’ll need something that is a QVC that is 1.4 ohms or higher, though 2 or 4 would be preferred since I’m running the PDX, must be able to be used in 3.5 cubes sealed. I’ll have them use different tinsel leads and maybe use a paper cone. Whatever I can do to make the sub more efficient and still work with what I need, I’ll do it.

In the mean time, I’ll probably take out my 18 for now and have some fun with 15� LMS 4000 that I was using for HT (5 cubes with 1k for HT is not near enough what the sub needs I guess). I’ll see how it does off 1,000w in my car. Worst comes to worst I’ll seal the 15� hole and see what three or four 8� eD EHQS subs will do.

 

I haven't finished the doors yet.I have beendoing other things. Partly the reason why I didn't finish is because one of the mids was making a popping sound. I took it to the shop and they played it for very short and said they really cant do be 100% sure unless they do a test with the mids installed. So made the other baffle and put it on the door without the door panels and it played fine. I guess it needed some break in, not sure.

I currently have the mids in and the tweeters in the stock locations just so that i have some decent sounding music. This week I plan to do the A pillars, but im trying to figure out how to mount them from the inside so they dont protrude past the pillar since I will be covering that up with the speaker grill cloth.

I'm also gonna take your advice Jimmy and do the baffle to the size of the speaker rather than what I had it...however, I will pre drill because I didnt do it last time and it split the wood. It looks like I'll have to cut some more of the door panel off though, just a tiny bit. I also might need to deaden the door a bit more, unless when the door panel is on it doesn't rattle because it does a tad right now at louder volumes.

I still need to figure out how to make a grill or something for the mids so that when I cover it with the speaker grill cloth it won't look ugly but still can provide protection to the mid...or at least partial protection.[/align][/align]Currently I'm running a pair 12" TC underhung subs (Audiomobile MASS 2012's) off one PDX and they sound very nice and get quite low as well. Hopefully I can get the enclosure started on this Saturday, I'll see how things go. Today after work I will be going to get a new suspension as well. I probably won't have much time to do anything else, but if I do I'll start on the A Pillars for the tweeters.[/align]

 

My shocks seemed to have been giving out, at least they made squeaking noises time to time. Plus I had the whole boat ride going on so I bought a Megan Racing coil over damper suspension kit. The strut bar is also from Megan Racing and they didn't have the gun metal but had red so I was gonna go with that, but it turned out it was broken so I get the gun metal in about a week. My alignment was a bit off before and i can tell a big difference now, but it's still drivable and will get fixed next week as well.

I dropped it about 2.5" and it rides nicely and handling has GREATLY improved. Anyhow, here are before and after pictures.

 

And here's a quick picture of the kit.

 

I plan to take the tail lights out and put something else on. I sorta don't like the one's I have anymore and they are looking a bit more "ricer" with the lowered car. I would like suggestions as to which of these two I should go with. I like the red, but then again, I will be getting tint so the black may match that along with the dark green of the car. Thoughts?





Or I can do these if the LED's will be too much. If I go with these, would them being blackced out look better?