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Stefan
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May 2002

Re: Sterio Install with pics	Tue, 03 December 2002 14:50

Cutting metal in doors is easy. With a metal cutting blade in a jigsaw - too easy. You gotta be careful, 'cos you can't put it back if you make a mistake... I fixed up the previous owners install in my ra65. He had put some crappy VERY shallow 5.25" speakers in the doors. The door retaining rods rubbed the back of the speakers, and any better speaker was going to be deeper. I had to make teardrop shaped pods to cover the old hole and sit the speakers (6.5" DDDrive coasxs) lower down. Here is an old pic of the trial one made from fibreboard. http://www.speedtoys.com/~stefan/images/newa16.jpg The finished ones are twice as thick (12mm mdf), with routed edges and covered in blue vinyl. I rear passenger 6x9s were just screwed into the interior panel, and were too deep so the panel was bowed. Not good. I recently fixed this by making 12mm MDF rings under the interior panel and screwing them to the sheetmetal, then making matching 6mm spacer rings that exactly match the speakers that screw in on top. The speakers then screw into them. Panels are straight again and are very solid. Sounds better too, i'm thinking of packing the spaces somehow to improve the bass though - any ideas anyone? [Updated on: Tue, 03 December 2002 14:51] [Report message to a moderator]

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