door speaker build log (pics)

[mlstrass 5,000+ posts]

Part of being serious about car audio is driving around with your door panels off most of the time. LOL

The window/door lock controllers will unplug no problem.

Good job on the deadening. Backside of the door skin is a PITA. I've done my car and the GF's and couldn't tell you how many hours I've spent. WAY more than I care to think about, but it's worth it...

Use brake cleaner to clean the glue off your hands then wash with a mild soap and put some lotion on and you'll be fine. Cuts on the fingertips kill me as I type on a keyboard all day.

 

[goodstuff 10+ year member]

Part of being serious about car audio is driving around with your door panels off most of the time. LOL
The window/door lock controllers will unplug no problem.

Good job on the deadening. Backside of the door skin is a PITA. I've done my car and the GF's and couldn't tell you how many hours I've spent. WAY more than I care to think about, but it's worth it...

Use brake cleaner to clean the glue off your hands then wash with a mild soap and put some lotion on and you'll be fine. Cuts on the fingertips kill me as I type on a keyboard all day.

Yeah I work retail and I'm constantly writing stuff down...i've got this blister on my finger that is right where I normally hold onto the pen so i've been forced to hold it from the top and write like i'm in 1st grade....I really hope it will be worth it...but I have already noticed a difference in the sound when you close the passenger side door which is half done and when you close the driver side which has nothing at the moment...a nice solid THUNK compared to a hollow clang.

 

[Flipx99 5,000+ posts]

Four lines in one cable twisted, +-+- for two separate connections... so essentially you can biamp or biwire with it. Also called quad pattern.

In other words, tweeter and mid could run off of one run of cable sleeved all the way to the amp channels.

However for car audio, I see a bug here.. You'd have to split the line as your drivers are possible over a foot apart.. so it kills the benefit of having the single sleeve unless you could use other sleeving/wrap for the runs inside the door I guess once you break off the two runs.

Oh.. also this would be an idea for a door install with two drivers in the door (Active components, no passive in the link).

Gotcha...I still like it so you would only have to do two runs insead of 4.

Interesting...learn something new every day.

 

[Flipx99 5,000+ posts]

Yeah I work retail and I'm constantly writing stuff down...i've got this blister on my finger that is right where I normally hold onto the pen so i've been forced to hold it from the top and write like i'm in 1st grade....I really hope it will be worth it...but I have already noticed a difference in the sound when you close the passenger side door which is half done and when you close the driver side which has nothing at the moment...a nice solid THUNK compared to a hollow clang.

Wait until you deaden the floors. I am hoping to order enough to get mine done on Friday if gotfocus? hasn't sold it all.

 

[DejaWiz 5,000+ posts]

Great job so far. Good choice on the sound deadener, too!

 

[CRAZYCORNUTS18 10+ year member]

just no more fires! lol looks good man

 

[goodstuff 10+ year member]

Wait until you deaden the floors. I am hoping to order enough to get mine done on Friday if gotfocus? hasn't sold it all.

Not going there, car will be dead before that...I'm crazy for even doing this much cause the car has alot of rust around the fenders that I am too lazy to deal with....I'm thinking it would be easier to do the floor because you have the entire surface exposed....it's not like making tiny ships inside bottles like doing the doors...

just no more fires! lol looks good man

I think you have me confused with someone else...

 

[Eugenics 5,000+ posts]

you've got some very nice looking hands.

 

[goodstuff 10+ year member]

you've got some very nice looking hands.

They'd look better in your portz...weirdo...lol...jk.

 

[goodstuff 10+ year member]

Well I am making progress still...

Here is the passenger side before I added the ensolite.

BUT, I have a slight problem....

The door panel was too low...So I cut it...Hastily...Now it looks like ***.

Suggestions....I just want it to look stock. Help please.

 

[Babs 10+ year member]

*** would definitely be the term I'd use.. Sorry dude. Without seeing what the bottom section of the door looks like, hard to make suggestions, but I'm willing to bet you have two options, neither you're going to want to hear... 1. New OEM replacement panel $$, 2. Time to get inventive with some fiberglass and some vinyl covering (don't go quite so hastily).. Could design something nice, if done properly. Either way, you've got to fill in that void, and it sucks it's not a flat surface that could just be covered by a fabricated grill.

 

[goodstuff 10+ year member]

*** would definitely be the term I'd use.. Sorry dude. Without seeing what the bottom section of the door looks like, hard to make suggestions, but I'm willing to bet you have two options, neither you're going to want to hear... 1. New OEM replacement panel $$, 2. Time to get inventive with some fiberglass and some vinyl covering (don't go quite so hastily).. Could design something nice, if done properly. Either way, you've got to fill in that void, and it sucks it's not a flat surface that could just be covered by a fabricated grill.

Yeah, some of the vinyl cracked when I cut it because it's so old....I knew that glassing was about the only solution but I need ideas about how to apply it...what's making it tough is, if I built a frame for the grill cloth to hide it there would be nothing really to attach it to on the bottom of the door....I had thought this might be a problem before but I figured I could mount the speaker low enough in the door but it's right at the bottom...if I went lower it would hit the sill when I close the door.

 

[Babs 10+ year member]

Might consider trying to "delicately" even out the cuttout.. make it symmetrical.. keep in mind whatever you do with this door you'll probably want to duplicate on the left side.. Maybe fabricate a large front applied type of grill covering maybe with a frame that clears the cuttout.. parts express can probably help with the grill cloth covering.. That'd be a quick and maybe not so ugly solution.

Could get some modelling clay and get a "design" going for a kind of low-profile "pod" that contours that line in the door. Again, what's the stock lower part look like?

 

[goodstuff 10+ year member]

Might consider trying to "delicately" even out the cuttout.. make it symmetrical.. keep in mind whatever you do with this door you'll probably want to duplicate on the left side.. Maybe fabricate a large front applied type of grill covering maybe with a frame that clears the cuttout.. parts express can probably help with the grill cloth covering.. That'd be a quick and maybe not so ugly solution.
Could get some modelling clay and get a "design" going for a kind of low-profile "pod" that contours that line in the door. Again, what's the stock lower part look like?

um this? not sure what you mean by lower part?

 

[goodstuff 10+ year member]

This raised area in red is part of whats making it so tough...it fits flush against the dash when you close the door.