Speaker Mounting

[beckSHO 10+ year member]

With my brother's car, a 1993 Bonneville SSEi, there is no place to mount the mid/woofer on the door frame inside the doors. So, when I installed his speakers(Rainbow SLC 265's) I made a mounting plate out of some wood and attached that to the door frame. The downside to this; I wasn't sealing the front off from the back of the mid/woofer. Basically the speaker is mounted free-air, which obviously won't give optimal performace. Because of the door design, I can't seal the front off from the back of the mid/woofer when doing it this way.

I could take the speakers out, and surface mount them to the front of the door panels. Now, I know that when mounting a speaker, you want to mount it to a rigid surface. Would the plastic of the door panel be rigid enough? Theoretically, should this help the performance of his Rainbows?

Please help me out! Thanks in advance.

Beck

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[Trey803 5,000+ posts]

Thats how alot of people do it. That is how I did it. You can read the proper door deandening sticky and it shows how to get rid of those huge holes in the door panel

 

[beckSHO 10+ year member]

Thats how alot of people do it. That is how I did it. You can read the proper door deandening sticky and it shows how to get rid of those huge holes in the door panel

Well, I have read that thread several times. The thing is with my bro's doors, is that they doesn't really have any "framework" to attach some thin sheetmetal or aluminum to. Otherwise I would have done that. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crap.gif.7f4dd41e3e9b23fbd170a1ee6f65cecc.gif

I think I'm just going to have to ghetto-rig them into the doorpanels for now. When it gets warmer out again, I will make some fiberglass doorpods for it. I could use some more practice with that before I do some fiberglassing on my car..... //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif Thanks for the help bro.

Beck

 

[beckSHO 10+ year member]

It should be alright mounting the mids/woofers to the door panels, right? I could do some fiberglass reinforcing to make it more rigid, if needed.

 

[beckSHO 10+ year member]

It should be alright mounting the mids/woofers to the door panels, right? I could do some fiberglass reinforcing to make it more rigid, if needed.

Anybody?

Bueller.......?