Project, 16 8's in a Bandpass IB Clamshell...In a Stratus.

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my featherlite filler is coming tomorrow along with more resin, so again I will be working on it this weekend.

 

[Mitch86 5,000+ posts]

Fiberglass work is fun stuff... looking good so far! Is there going to be 3 mids per door?

 

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Fiberglass work is fun stuff... looking good so far! Is there going to be 3 mids per door?

that is correct sir

 

[Mitch86 5,000+ posts]

that is correct sir

Ok cool. I was a little confused by the hole in the panel that didnt have a baffle. I guess you're just covering that up... Still curious about the box.. hope to see the finished product soon. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

 

[JEXTEL 10+ year member]

finish this ish already and make some vids..lol

 

[twisztdauthorit 10+ year member]

wow this has come along quite a ways... how do you plan on blending the FG with the oem doors smoothly?

 

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wow this has come along quite a ways... how do you plan on blending the FG with the oem doors smoothly?

Lots of filler //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

As for color, not so sure at the moment.

going for something similar to this:

 

[kovemaster559 5,000+ posts]

dam that looks realy good

 

[liftedcj7on44s 10+ year member]

lol thats rich's car!!!

 

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That's stratusRT01's car.

ahh beat...not mine, I'll be doing 3 in each door.

 

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i like the staples MUCH better than the glue //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

turned out so much better.

and the technically name for 'an ib' in a vehicle is actually called a TB - or a trunk baffle. this is because a true IB setup is when the VAS of the speaker(s) are increased 10 fold, and that is the 'size' of the sealed enclosure.

well, its much easier to just put the rear wave into oblivion and trap the front wave in a room, so its the same in a car. i doubt people want to cut huge holes in the trunk to make the install REALLY IB. so they just make the sealed side as large as possible.

and it works great. so who cares //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

im sure it will jiggle your nuts and sound great. doors are comming along better than i thought but im very scared about the joint between where you taped off the inner area and where the glass meets it.

you should have decoupled the center part there from the rest of the panel. there are little plastic melt rivets on the back, and you could easily have popped those off (a nice big drill bit does the job well by drilling out the plastic melt part) and they come apart. then when you are done glassing, you get some plastic and set it on fire (after scraping up the area nice and well) and then you melt the rivet area - and then stick the two melting plastic pieces together and trim with a dremel and it welds the ABS together like the original rivet, but a little uglier //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

so good luck with that part //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crap.gif.7f4dd41e3e9b23fbd170a1ee6f65cecc.gif

 

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i like the staples MUCH better than the glue //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif
turned out so much better.

and the technically name for 'an ib' in a vehicle is actually called a TB - or a trunk baffle. this is because a true IB setup is when the VAS of the speaker(s) are increased 10 fold, and that is the 'size' of the sealed enclosure.

well, its much easier to just put the rear wave into oblivion and trap the front wave in a room, so its the same in a car. i doubt people want to cut huge holes in the trunk to make the install REALLY IB. so they just make the sealed side as large as possible.

and it works great. so who cares //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

im sure it will jiggle your nuts and sound great. doors are comming along better than i thought but im very scared about the joint between where you taped off the inner area and where the glass meets it.

you should have decoupled the center part there from the rest of the panel. there are little plastic melt rivets on the back, and you could easily have popped those off (a nice big drill bit does the job well by drilling out the plastic melt part) and they come apart. then when you are done glassing, you get some plastic and set it on fire (after scraping up the area nice and well) and then you melt the rivet area - and then stick the two melting plastic pieces together and trim with a dremel and it welds the ABS together like the original rivet, but a little uglier //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

so good luck with that part //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crap.gif.7f4dd41e3e9b23fbd170a1ee6f65cecc.gif

I was kinda worried about that too, but I wasn't sure how I was going to put them back together, so maybe I will take them off and try that.

thanks for the info, that's a good idea, 1 already started coming apart anyway.

 

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Moar!

 

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lol, I've worked on it some, but haven't taken any pics, been busy.