Ive decided

AustinKP

Originally posted by MacLeod
Austin makes a good point.

Hey, thanks! I mean...of course I did. What did you expect?

spwuinmk67

Well I wanted to see if I like them in that spot first. If so, then I'll cut the pocket out and do some fiberglassing. I'm still unsure of how I want to finish them when I'm done. If I wanna paint it, or maybe use something like the spray coating austin used, etc.

exalted512

almost all speakers will sound better in a sealed or ported enclosure as long as its built to specs. it will help your bass response 99.9% of the time
-Cody

MacLeod

Originally posted by exalted512
almost all speakers will sound better in a sealed or ported enclosure as long as its built to specs. it will help your bass response 99.9% of the time
-Cody

That is true but the enclosure required would be a good bit bigger than the space available and the midbass/bass response would be choked. If you dont have the room to build the proper enclosure then dont as these speakers are designed to work in IB theyll work fine.

AustinKP

Originally posted by spwuinmk67
Well I wanted to see if I like them in that spot first. If so, then I'll cut the pocket out and do some fiberglassing. I'm still unsure of how I want to finish them when I'm done. If I wanna paint it, or maybe use something like the spray coating austin used, etc.

That's going to be a tough one. I was lucky in that I could follow the line from the factory speaker grille, and thus use a different color/texture. You're going to have to do a lot of smoothing, etc. to blend in with the rest of the door panel since it looks like you don't have a line to follow. Looks like you'll have to either cover the whole door with what you choose to finish it with, or else do a heck of a job matching paint and texture to the door.

spwuinmk67

That's one thing I'm not looking foward to, matching it to the interior:rolleyes:

neomagus00

like austin said, you could match the interior to it, which, given the problems with texture- and color-matching, may end up looking better, if being more difficult.

spwuinmk67

Well they're in and running! I finished at....5am? I'll give thoughts and reviews when I get more listening time in, and pics will come later on today.

exalted512

let us know!!!
-Cody

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try this one more time...2

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exalted512

so how does it sound????
-Cody

spwuinmk67

So far, I love them. At first, they were very bright, like god aweful, my ears are gonna bleed bright, lol. Dropped the tweeter level on the crossover to -3, played around with some eq settings on my hu, and now, very detailed, crisp, and loud. There is some lacking midbass, its gotten better as I've played with the eq some, but I think the fact that the bottom of the mids is wide open, that im getting some cancelation. I'm thinking, and hoping, that once I break them in a little more, fiberglass them in, do some sound deadening, that all will improve. I love the detail though.

MacLeod

Once you break them in they will thicken up.

Not to mention, once you get them actually installed.

exalted512

yea, the way you have them installed now, youre def. getting some cancellation. once its fiberglassed it will also make the place where the speaker is mounted more rigid and will probably help a lot as well.
-Cody

spwuinmk67

Well I got around to 'glassing them in the other day, finally. The midbass improved drastically. While it's not the finished product, here are some pics from the driver's side door at least, didn't have time to take pics of the passenger side. It doesn't stick out as far, which is good. I still can use my e-brake, another plus. I think I'm going to hold off on "finishing" them though, at least untill I convert my manual windows and locks to power ones. This way, when I have a hole to cover up from the window crank, I can do it all at once. Plus....I still don't know how I wanna finish it.

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neomagus00

sweet!

MacLeod

Those look like they would be in the way pretty bad. They give you enough leg room?

spwuinmk67

When I cut part of the little pocket off, it gave me enough room to bring the speaker back a little, and clear up some leg room. It's not bad at all, I can reach the e-brake easily, which prior to glassing them, I had to be rather carefull. I gotta glass my tweeters in soon though, the hot glue only works so well...lol.

AustinKP

Originally posted by spwuinmk67
Well I got around to 'glassing them in the other day, finally. The midbass improved drastically.

I noticed the same thing. Makes an incredible difference from just having them freeair, or even from having them *almost* sealed.
-Austin

spwuinmk67

A while ago I read something about how the crossover has a light bulb inside that will absorb excess power going to the tweeter, as to not overload it. I completly forgot about this until tonight while I'm drivin around and behind my seats started flashin me...lol. Kinda freaked me out at first. Pretty neat though

MacLeod

LOL! Thats pretty cool.

I always read they had little light bulbs in there but have never seen them lit up like that.