Fiberglass speaker pod build

[91Chevy 10+ year member]

what is a dp?

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[Alpine4life89 10+ year member]

Smooth as a babies bottom. It won't be long before these babies are installed for my loud music listening pleasure.

 

[Zellner 10+ year member]

lol i saw ur post about that avatar did db hook you up with one?

 

[here to buy 10+ year member]

nice pods,

and holy ****ing avatar lmaooo

 

[SELFMADE]

Did you cut your door apaer or what did you mount the speakers too?

 

[Alpine4life89 10+ year member]

lol i saw ur post about that avatar did db hook you up with one?

yep.

nice pods,and holy ****ing avatar lmaooo

thanks dude.

Did you cut your door apaer or what did you mount the speakers too?

Let me just get some pics of that and show you. Much easier than me trying to explain it, lol.

 

[SELFMADE]

Ok cool thanks.

 

[Alpine4life89 10+ year member]

The piece that we we used as the foundation for the pods is seen in this picture. All we did was take it off, mod it, and it fits right back on. We had to screw it on, but it gets the job done.

Didn't even have to mess with the door panel itself until we cut some holes in it behind where the speakers are going to sit. The magnet wouldn't fit without cutting some of the door panel panel out.

as seen here. So overall it was very easy actually.

 

[Sarthos 10+ year member]

Are you sealing the pods behind the speakers or are you keeping the back open so it can use the whole door as a box? And nice, I did something similar, but I only have one speaker + tweeter per door. I kept the pocket at the back of the panel that you deleted and just did the speaker over the old speaker cover. Hopefully that doesn't rob you of too much leg room. Mine does a little bit, doesn't affect me, but when my mom decided to steal my car for a week though (her car needed work so she found a spare key in my room and just used my car for that week without informing me, then continued to use it once I found out for several more weeks). She's too short to drive, she puts the seat up as far as it goes and sits like a little old lady hunched over the steering wheel. She managed to not have enough leg room and rip out a bunch of wires under my dash because of it, then blamed me because of my pods.

Anyway, one thing about those pods is the way your speakers are pointed you may have some really weird imaging. The front speakers should sound good, but the rear ones being pointed forward you might hear their echo instead of their direct music.

 

[Alpine4life89 10+ year member]

Are you sealing the pods behind the speakers or are you keeping the back open so it can use the whole door as a box? And nice, I did something similar, but I only have one speaker + tweeter per door. I kept the pocket at the back of the panel that you deleted and just did the speaker over the old speaker cover. Hopefully that doesn't rob you of too much leg room. Mine does a little bit, doesn't affect me, but when my mom decided to steal my car for a week though (her car needed work so she found a spare key in my room and just used my car for that week without informing me, then continued to use it once I found out for several more weeks). She's too short to drive, she puts the seat up as far as it goes and sits like a little old lady hunched over the steering wheel. She managed to not have enough leg room and rip out a bunch of wires under my dash because of it, then blamed me because of my pods.
Anyway, one thing about those pods is the way your speakers are pointed you may have some really weird imaging. The front speakers should sound good, but the rear ones being pointed forward you might hear their echo instead of their direct music.

i'm not sure if i am sealing it off or not. I guess i better get some suggestions huh? I think it would be better to keep it open don't you?

As far as leg room goes, i have plenty of it. Still a little crowded down there, but much better than most peoples builds i've seen, plus, we already tested it and didn't bother me. So that was good. It's going to take a while to get used to though.

The front speaker is aiming almost directly at me. The rear one is actually really close the side of my seat actually, but i am willing to sacrifice the imaging for just pure loudness. It would be impossible to do this any other way, so we only had one choice, and we stuck with it. We are going to test it out tomorrow and see how it sounds, so when it is installed temporarily, i will make sure i take some pics of the speaker angles and where they are in the car.

 

[Sarthos 10+ year member]

Okay. My pods stick out further and are angled a bit harder than those ones, so they rob leg room but the driver's one points right at my face and the passenger's one gets the side of my head. Where are you gonna mount the tweets?

 

[Alpine4life89 10+ year member]

Okay. My pods stick out further and are angled a bit harder than those ones, so they rob leg room but the driver's one points right at my face and the passenger's one gets the side of my head. Where are you gonna mount the tweets?

well, i might only have to use one set of tweets because the diamond tweeters are extremely bright. So if it sounds good with one set of tweets, i will just keep them in the a-pillar, and if i need to use the other pair i will just find a place on the pod somewhere to put it, without it being mounted. lol

 

[SELFMADE]

Dang your lucky your doors come apart like that haha most doors are just all 1 piece //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif nice job on the fiberglass though

 

[Alpine4life89 10+ year member]

Dang your lucky your doors come apart like that haha most doors are just all 1 piece //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif nice job on the fiberglass though

ha, my car is the easiest car to take apart. i swear they made this car specifically for car audio installs.

 

[audioarsonal 10+ year member]

Actually alot of cars have pieces that are removable.Just have to pull them off and look

As for sealing the backs I would,but others say its not necassairy.(sp)