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Speaker Location

Started by RIM-010 , Apr 14 2006 09:45 PM

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#1 RIM-010

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Posted 14 April 2006 - 09:45 PM

Hey all.

I'm stuck for ideas on where to fit speakers in my LJ (2 Door).

It will be quite a small setup, probably 2 6x9 in the rear parcel shelf, and 2 smaller ones in the front somewhere, but where? I'm not touching the doorcards, as they are in MINT condition.

Any ideas anyone? pics would be Great.

Cheers, RIM

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#2 Heath

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Posted 14 April 2006 - 10:07 PM

Kick panels. Make them out of MDF. Cut them to shape, test fit the speakers.

Then seal the MDF, then glue carpet to the MDF.

If you make them on an Angle (which I recommend if you have the time), make the left one pointing toward the Driver's seat, and vise versa.

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#3 _Flamenco_

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Posted 15 April 2006 - 12:52 PM

LC/LJ are a lot harder to place front speakers in than the bigger torries... You can do as Heath mentioned and place them in the kick panels but don't use the factory kick panels as a template (you need to allow for the fact that they sit underneath the door frame's inner seal). There are other options too - either side of a custom centre console or under the dash but obviously they won't sound as good as in the kick panels or the doors.

Only thing that's a bit of a pain mounting the speakers in the kick panels is the accelerator pedal. Pods can be mounted in the doors without destroying the trims but requires a bit of planning - you can make a mount that bolts to the actual door and curls around the door trim from the side or bottom, mount the pod to that. Some door trims like LC GTR have carpet at the base so you wouldn't see any screw holes if you removed the pods.

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#4 RIM-010

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Posted 17 April 2006 - 07:25 PM

Hmm...

http://www.cardomain.com/ride/2288805

Check out the bottom two pics there, its my current setup and works alright. I'm working on getting another smaller speaker for under the driver side dash (the ones ive got dont fit).

Cheers, RIM

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#5 _Bomber Watson_

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Posted 17 April 2006 - 07:52 PM

my hot setup. sounds arright. working on the boot now.

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#6 _stinky_

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Posted 19 April 2006 - 04:48 PM

If you are using 6" speakers,

1. Head down to bunnings and pick up a pair of 150mm Stormwater PVC 45 degree bends

2. Cut the flanges off and make up a couple of MDF inserts, one for the speaker to mount to and one that attaches to the door or kick panel.

A bit of messing around is required with the MDF, you can then trim or paint to suit.

With this setup you only really need two screws to hold them in place and a hole for the wires.

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#7 Heath

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Posted 19 April 2006 - 06:00 PM

So it's like a PVC pod design with MDF ends? Do you have any photos of this kinda setup? Sounds pretty interesting.

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#8 _stinky_

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Posted 21 April 2006 - 09:51 PM

I don't have any build shots, just the finished items installed in my FE.

The speaker mount MDF is essentially a donut, while the other end needs bits recessed to make the pod as small as possible. Anyone who is half handy with a jig saw could knock these up in no time. Sew up a vinyl "sock" to go over the lot and glue or staple into place.

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