Custom w7 dustcap

[shalizi 10+ year member]

ii remember a few months ago somebody on her had made some plexi or acrylic dustcaps for the w7..does anyone know who that was and a link i searched but couldnt find it.. Also my w7 has a crack in it. Could i use some black rubber cement on it?

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[Tonyguy 10+ year member]

pm teamquakecelica. It was him i believe.

 

[Jameseypoo 5,000+ posts]

Hold on a sec...

 

[Jameseypoo 5,000+ posts]

http://www.caraudio.com/forum/showthread.php?t=245654

Check page 3. I'm doing it.......... yeaaaaaaaa

 

[shalizi 10+ year member]

your doing the lexan project? where do you buy the lexan from? also how hard is the install?

 

[Jameseypoo 5,000+ posts]

To be quite honest.. I haven't bought the lexan yet or done any part of it yet. I plan on doing it in the near future but I do have a "write-up" of the person that did the lexan dub7 if you're interested. Let me know.

 

[mjf 10+ year member]

i would like to see the writeup myself.

 

[shalizi 10+ year member]

yea can you send me that write up please

 

[shalizi 10+ year member]

btw nice e34 mpars are classic wheels good choice

 

[Jameseypoo 5,000+ posts]

Thanks! Here you go.

Actually it was real easy....I took the sub to a glass/plastics cutter (small place that does custom window cuts etc...) theny cut a circle and a "pole" that was then glued to the center of the circle...they did the measuring I picked out the stock (1/8" mirror balck lexan w/ 1/2" poly carbonate for the "pole") pull off the old dustcap glue the pole to the center of the "w" cone where the cap attaches and then glue the edge of the circle where the cap attached by the surround!

I then had a few more questions so here is the additional info he gave me..

the orignal dustcap is a "dish" that attaches on the ouside edge of the surround but also at the dead center of the "W" cone... u will be replacing the "dish" with a flat circle that is not parabolic... so the flat circle would only attach to the outside by the surround and not the "W" cone (this would cause a sever loss in cone strength) so you have to have them make the "pole" that will connect the new non-concave cap with the "W" cone... from the top it would look like this "O" from the side like a "T" new lexan on top with the pole in the middle

Hope that helps!