Baron von Marlon
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In the run up to the Bristol Classic Car Show, which was a really good weekend, I completed fitting a slightly better sound system into the car. The original speakers, in the original locations, really did not sound good! I didn't want to install anything OTT, after all the car makes its own music, so settled for 4.5 inch speakers in the front and 6x9's in the back.
To make sure that I didn't have to butcher the door cards completely, I decided to go for pods for the 4.5 inch speakers, so just 5 little holes (4 for the screws and one for the cable). To begin with, I wasn't sure if the pods would fit in the space I had in mind, with the arc of the window winder, so I knocked up a cardboard template of the same size as the pods.
Once this was offered up to the door, it became clear that the speakers and pods would fit the intended location and were duly ordered, and fitted a couple of days later.
I didn't want to chop holes in the base unit to fit the 6x9's in the back, so I decided to build a small unit to accommodate the speakers, which could be mounted on the existing parcel shelf. The existing brown vinyl was stripped off the front of the hardboard shelf and a new covering of foam and red vinyl was put over it.
The speaker mounting unit itself is constructed from 9mm MDF and shaped to fit up to the rear trim, under the rear screen.
It's of pretty simple construction, consisting of a top, front, two ends and a central strengthening rib. The unit was then covered with 3mm foam, before being covered with red vinyl and the speakers fitted. To secure it into place, the unit was secured with a few panel pins to the original hardboard shelf.
The red looks good if you're looking in from the outside, but looks a little out of place from the inside at the moment, with the brown interior. This will change, though, as more of the interior adopts the red and black scheme currently being developed.
To make sure that I didn't have to butcher the door cards completely, I decided to go for pods for the 4.5 inch speakers, so just 5 little holes (4 for the screws and one for the cable). To begin with, I wasn't sure if the pods would fit in the space I had in mind, with the arc of the window winder, so I knocked up a cardboard template of the same size as the pods.
Once this was offered up to the door, it became clear that the speakers and pods would fit the intended location and were duly ordered, and fitted a couple of days later.
I didn't want to chop holes in the base unit to fit the 6x9's in the back, so I decided to build a small unit to accommodate the speakers, which could be mounted on the existing parcel shelf. The existing brown vinyl was stripped off the front of the hardboard shelf and a new covering of foam and red vinyl was put over it.
The speaker mounting unit itself is constructed from 9mm MDF and shaped to fit up to the rear trim, under the rear screen.
It's of pretty simple construction, consisting of a top, front, two ends and a central strengthening rib. The unit was then covered with 3mm foam, before being covered with red vinyl and the speakers fitted. To secure it into place, the unit was secured with a few panel pins to the original hardboard shelf.
The red looks good if you're looking in from the outside, but looks a little out of place from the inside at the moment, with the brown interior. This will change, though, as more of the interior adopts the red and black scheme currently being developed.