5speed6 v.2

Let me first discuss my goals before anyone starts to wonder "why would you want to do this to your car".

For starters, the factory front speaker location only hold a 5¼" driver (while the rear is a 6½").

By nature, I enjoy a wide variety of music, and consider myself an AUDIophile (love that play on words). Over the years I have competed in autosound competitions with other vehicles. This was NOT for loudness or SPL (Sound Pressure Levels) but for sound clarity and imaging. This is achieved by a balance of using the right equipment, speakers and speaker placement.

When you listen to music (either in your home, or live), the sound comes from in front of you. My goal was to achieve the majority of frequencies of sound from the front, and rely as little as possible from the subs in the back. The use of the dual 6½" drivers that you will see is a major part of achieving that goal. These drivers respond `fast' and will be able to play down `low'. (Plus I love good, strong midbass). The separate midrange drivers used, will allow me to distribute the frequencies more precisely. In addition, I will be adding 31 bands of digital equalization.

This, plus as Murph stated, I'm a maniac

Here is the detailed buildup on the front door speakers.


<b>Started with this:</b>
<img src="http://img374.imageshack.us/img374/4130/speakerhousingok9.jpg">

<b>Got two pairs of Morel's top of the line 6½" midbass drivers with 3" voice coils:</b>
<img src="http://img520.imageshack.us/img520/822/morelmidbasswd9.jpg">

<b>Properly soldered to some high-end directional speaker wire:</b>
<img src="http://img172.imageshack.us/img172/7715/morelsolderedterminalsfv6.jpg">

<b>For midrange, got a pair of matching Morel 4" soft-domes:</b>
<img src="http://img207.imageshack.us/img207/8195/moreldomemidrangeqb4.jpg">

<img src="http://img206.imageshack.us/img206/108/morelmidrangerearpe2.jpg">


<b>Luckily my friend has a military-grade CNC machine shop, so I had him make me up some custom precise fit mounting rings:</b>
<img src="http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/4048/aluminumringrearxt9.jpg">

<img src="http://img520.imageshack.us/img520/1448/aluminumringfrontwi0.jpg">

<b>They were later `tapped' once I had the proper mounting location.
These are used to angle the midrange up toward the listener's ears at around 30 degrees.</b>


<b>Here are all the speakers mounted in one door panel, fully sealed in using expanding foam in all the crevices:</b>
<img src="http://img206.imageshack.us/img206/6416/doorpanelfinishedxn1.jpg">


<b>And here are the panels, with the grills installed:</b>
<img src="http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/3306/passengerdoorcompleteta7.jpg">

<b>What you can't see in these photos, is Morel's 1" tweeters installed the factory location.

The midbass drivers will be powered at 150 watts each, the midrange and tweeters at 50 watts each, all RMS rating.

Coming up soon...the head unit nightmare, and the trunk amp rack install.</b>

Press

you are one busy sob....looks great

Amato9588

Very nice, what are you getting for a head unit

Boston Driver

Hurry up and finish that this weekend so you can come up to Boston!!!

5speed6 v.2

...but at least it's coming out the way I want it to.

5speed6 v.2

Eclipse 7" touch screen, dual DVD drives w/NAV.

5speed6 v.2

How about you come down here and help me :&gt

Boston Driver

...and his son just came back from Iraq, so we want to be there for the homecoming!

I still think...

<b>You...
<img src="http://pimpsofgore.com/untitled/back.jpg">

...need this...
<img src="http://www.gearlog.com/images/11242.jpg">

...to make your car...
<img src="http://www.engadget.com/media/2006/05/delorean.jpg">

...one point twenty-one gigawatts!!!</b>

Amato9588

the only hard part was stuffing all the wires behind the head unit. Other then that the vss wire and reverse wires were very easy to find and getting the unit to sit right in the opening was not as easy as i thought but in the end the new double din kit scosche makes made that process easy.

If i get my new car im getting the avn 6610bt

bac2h

I agree with Murph....