luxstang
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- 1972 Mustang Convertible
Ok, here we go.
This is what I started with (ugly!!):
First I had to cut some holes into the doors because my car came with the standard dash mounted speakers only.
Of course I did not have any jigsaw blades for metal left and the stores were closed. (as usual!)
So I had to do it the old fashioned way, swiss cheese style: (Edit: Sorry, somehow the pic is upside down, but you get the drift)
Then I cut the plastic of the new door panels but only so deep as to leave the carpet intact.
Reason is that I did not have any original style speaker grilles, as I forgot to order them. And, because I am here in Europe, I would have had to wait for at least a week for them to get here but I wanted to get the job done, once I had started.
The good thing is that now the speakers will be hidden from sight but the sound will go through the fabric, although it does lose some treble. But that doesn't bother me that much, because the car is so loud that HIFI is useless anyway.
And this is the end result, nice and clean (except for the tools lying in the car, sorry)
The speakers sound much better now because the doors act like a closed cabinet that gives them some back pressure, unlike the open rear panels, where the speaker could not make the air move.
I will try and add some speakers the way Roy and Q did it, though. I really like that idea and it will give me the treble that the carpets absorbs.
This is what I started with (ugly!!):
First I had to cut some holes into the doors because my car came with the standard dash mounted speakers only.
Of course I did not have any jigsaw blades for metal left and the stores were closed. (as usual!)
So I had to do it the old fashioned way, swiss cheese style: (Edit: Sorry, somehow the pic is upside down, but you get the drift)
Then I cut the plastic of the new door panels but only so deep as to leave the carpet intact.
Reason is that I did not have any original style speaker grilles, as I forgot to order them. And, because I am here in Europe, I would have had to wait for at least a week for them to get here but I wanted to get the job done, once I had started.
The good thing is that now the speakers will be hidden from sight but the sound will go through the fabric, although it does lose some treble. But that doesn't bother me that much, because the car is so loud that HIFI is useless anyway.
And this is the end result, nice and clean (except for the tools lying in the car, sorry)
The speakers sound much better now because the doors act like a closed cabinet that gives them some back pressure, unlike the open rear panels, where the speaker could not make the air move.
I will try and add some speakers the way Roy and Q did it, though. I really like that idea and it will give me the treble that the carpets absorbs.
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