RE: Speaker Install

[Benjamin Harder <vwtype53@yahoo.com>]

Thanks Neal!
  I was at Cincy last year and watched you and Jody do the
install...I just couldn't remember WHO's car it was that they
were going into!  Thanks for the help.
BTW, I'll definitely be there again this year!!

Ben


--- Neal Tovsen <ntovsen@piper.hamline.edu> wrote:
> 
> Benjamin,
> 
> I took some pics of my 5.25" door panel install at Cincinnati last
> spring. Jody was supposed to do a how-to for scirocco.org, but I think
> if
> I don't hear from him soon, I'll be doing it without him (WHERE ARE YOU
> JODY??).
> 
> Anyway, you can see the pics in raw form
> <http://www.hamline.edu/~ntovsen/stereo> (is that how to do it
> Tosha???). Specifically, check out door_cutout.jpg, which is the only
> cutting I needed to do. cut the top and bottom edges, then grab it with
> a
> pliers and twist it off. When we did it originally, we screwed the
> speaker
> into the back of the stock location in the plastic. I just recently had
> some help from a guy at a local shop, and re-did
> the job by mounting a thin piece of MDF into the area you see in the
> picture, and cut a hole for the speaker, mounting it to the MDF in the  
> steel door instead of the plastic. Sealing the whole area with a couple
> layers of duct tape created a poor-man's sealed enclosure, which
> improved
> bass a LOT.
> 
> I have Rockford Fanatic X components, and they have a huge magnet, which
> fit with no trouble. The door panel has no visible modifications.
> Stealth,
> baby!
> 
> It's a lot simpler than my long-winded dissertation might suggest. Check
> the pics, and come to Cincinnati to see it for real!
> 
> Neal
> 
> 

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