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2016 Volkswagen Golf R Rebuild - Audiofrog, Brax, Helix, Illusion Audio
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<blockquote data-quote="SkizeR" data-source="post: 8598998" data-attributes="member: 633600"><p>Helix Director before with a reverse mount panel which was also wrapped (and peeling) in grill cloth placed in a cubby under the factory radio.</p><p></p><p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/jWx29Vo.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>First things first was to clean up the director. I retained the reverse-mount panel, but i rewrapped it. Wrapping in grill cloth gets tricky. When you spray it with the usual DAP weldwood landau top contact adhesive, it soaks through and you can see it. What i did for this was i coated the panel in a black-dyed resin, and let it cure till it was tacky. I then wrapped it and pressed the grill cloth firmly into the tacky, yet not fully cured resin. It worked perfectly. For the rear, i dyed some DAP landau top adhesive black, and sprayed/wrapped it as i would any other panel. Unfortunately i forgot to get pics of it installed.</p><p></p><p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/tg1Dm58.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>After removing the pillars and taking the grill cloth off of the pillars, i found it was worse than i though. The pillars were made with the old "fleece stretching over the baffle" trick. Except they didn't use thick fleece (which for some cases is fine). They used a single layer of grill cloth and soaked it in resin. Thats it. I was able to poke through it with my fingers. This may explain the resonance Mike was complaining about that was coming from the pillars. After this i literally peeled them apart with my hands.</p><p></p><p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/m24R8PN.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/fnleYz7.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/MuVjKi3.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>So first things first.. i took the previous pvc baffles that were topped with the Audiofrog steel baffle. As you can see in the "Before" pic of the pillars, they were huge and bulky. I grinded them down until the baffle was flush with the chrome trim ring.</p><p></p><p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/8riAFpG.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>Remember, not a lot of photos :/..</p><p></p><p>After ripping apart the pillars, i was left with the giant holes the previous installer(s) cut. Instead of making Mike order new pillars, i just made it work. I taped off the dash and windshield, put down plastic sheeting, and got to glassing the mold. pictured here is my original idea on mounting locations for the tweeters. You will see that this changed. But, behind the mids sunken into the small triangle window (which was tinted with 5%), was a .8 Liter enclosure. This is where i think the ball was previously dropped. I was able to install the mids partially sunken into this "hole", while having them almost fully on axis but also hardly protruding taking up any real estate from the windshield. All while having their own sealed enclosure.</p><p></p><p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/s8qCCeg.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>A sneak peak into how i achieved the curves. (Featuring new tweeter mounting location)</p><p></p><p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/jKFICmk.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>Glass, more glass, more glass, more glass, milled glass fibers, grind, shave, fill, sand, fill, sand, fill, sand, fill, sand, fill, sand sand sand.... Wrap</p><p></p><p>You can kinda see the enclosures here.</p><p></p><p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/Cw2ZGz7.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SkizeR, post: 8598998, member: 633600"] Helix Director before with a reverse mount panel which was also wrapped (and peeling) in grill cloth placed in a cubby under the factory radio. [IMG]https://i.imgur.com/jWx29Vo.jpg[/IMG] First things first was to clean up the director. I retained the reverse-mount panel, but i rewrapped it. Wrapping in grill cloth gets tricky. When you spray it with the usual DAP weldwood landau top contact adhesive, it soaks through and you can see it. What i did for this was i coated the panel in a black-dyed resin, and let it cure till it was tacky. I then wrapped it and pressed the grill cloth firmly into the tacky, yet not fully cured resin. It worked perfectly. For the rear, i dyed some DAP landau top adhesive black, and sprayed/wrapped it as i would any other panel. Unfortunately i forgot to get pics of it installed. [IMG]https://i.imgur.com/tg1Dm58.jpg[/IMG] After removing the pillars and taking the grill cloth off of the pillars, i found it was worse than i though. The pillars were made with the old "fleece stretching over the baffle" trick. Except they didn't use thick fleece (which for some cases is fine). They used a single layer of grill cloth and soaked it in resin. Thats it. I was able to poke through it with my fingers. This may explain the resonance Mike was complaining about that was coming from the pillars. After this i literally peeled them apart with my hands. [IMG]https://i.imgur.com/m24R8PN.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]https://i.imgur.com/fnleYz7.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]https://i.imgur.com/MuVjKi3.jpg[/IMG] So first things first.. i took the previous pvc baffles that were topped with the Audiofrog steel baffle. As you can see in the "Before" pic of the pillars, they were huge and bulky. I grinded them down until the baffle was flush with the chrome trim ring. [IMG]https://i.imgur.com/8riAFpG.jpg[/IMG] Remember, not a lot of photos :/.. After ripping apart the pillars, i was left with the giant holes the previous installer(s) cut. Instead of making Mike order new pillars, i just made it work. I taped off the dash and windshield, put down plastic sheeting, and got to glassing the mold. pictured here is my original idea on mounting locations for the tweeters. You will see that this changed. But, behind the mids sunken into the small triangle window (which was tinted with 5%), was a .8 Liter enclosure. This is where i think the ball was previously dropped. I was able to install the mids partially sunken into this "hole", while having them almost fully on axis but also hardly protruding taking up any real estate from the windshield. All while having their own sealed enclosure. [IMG]https://i.imgur.com/s8qCCeg.jpg[/IMG] A sneak peak into how i achieved the curves. (Featuring new tweeter mounting location) [IMG]https://i.imgur.com/jKFICmk.jpg[/IMG] Glass, more glass, more glass, more glass, milled glass fibers, grind, shave, fill, sand, fill, sand, fill, sand, fill, sand, fill, sand sand sand.... Wrap You can kinda see the enclosures here. [IMG]https://i.imgur.com/Cw2ZGz7.jpg[/IMG] [/QUOTE]
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