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Thanks xAndrewx!! This is a quick build should be done today or tomorrow. I've been a steel fabricator for most of my working life and I've had some great teachers. :drink40: You better believe it. :drink40:

Thanks Monte! The SLS's have some pretty good excursion, they sound great and play low without problems.

Thanks Jay-C76!! I'm in the Toledo area, near the Michigan border. No tornado's last Tues. in your area, but allot of wind. Indiana and Michigan got hit I believe.

Here we go again, day....whatever. I played pierce lake golf course around Ann Arbor, yesterday with my buddy. It was so windy I was loosing 40+ yards into the wind and gaining about the same with it. I've never played in hurricane "like" conditions before, the pro's at St. Andrews can have it. My ball was getting blown away before on the green before I could put it. Have you ever had to adjust for the wind when putting? Sorry, you aren't reading this for golf stories. On to today's progress. It's getting cold, I don't think it got above the low 40's today windy as hell and drizzling on and off all day. I had the 88's pods with one coat of resin over polishing cloth ready for me to start on this morning. I cut the cloth off the openings. I removed the temporary wood from both before glassing the inside with mat. I have ~4 layers all around the inside, should be plenty for the FR88's. I kept rolling them to keep the excess resin even as I could, but I got busy on the doors and well....... This is the pass. door, with a big friggin hole in it. That's a 6-1/2" sds for reference. How do you think this will sound? I had to cut and flip the window track mount to make clearance for the enclosure. I grabbed the pass. enclosure and started to deaden it. I had to get the heat gun out to warm it up so the P-n-S would stick to it, this took a while. I ran some wire for the sls's and the 88's while I still could and installed the enclosure. I placed some sound barrier over the holes and the rest of the inner door panel. Test fitting the door panel and marking it so I can trim the pocket around the speaker. A view down into the pocket. View into the stock speaker location. Some batting I had left over. Stuffing the enclosure. The SLS's in their new home. Inner pocket. Trimmed with thin snips. I will probably put some speaker grill cloth over this opening before someone puts something in the pocket and destroys the sls's. Pocket installed on door and panel installed. I sprayed everything visible with black paint, but I must not have taken any pics of it. View down into the pocket. From the drivers seat. I moved over to the drivers side. Once again the victim about to be violated and it knows nothing. You can see the original location for the window track mounting bolt in this picture. It's below the hole, to the right and just below the wiring harness. There's a dirt ring around the original slot. Another hole. You can see the window track bracket below the harness in the above pic and this is the bracket. I cut and flipped the mounting point and drilled a new hole for it. The gold colored bolt to the left of the lower speaker hole is the relocated track bolt. Drivers side enclosure installed. Poly-fil again. The other 2 sls's in their new home. I was cold, tired and had enough for today. I still need to track down a noise issue with the head unit power wiring, mount the sax 125.2 and cover the FR88 pods. I should have this wrapped up tomorrow, if not early Saturday.

Thank you Sir!

Thanks edouble! Yes that's a lincoln weld-pak 100, innershield wire, it really does a great job. I've had it for more years than I can remember.

I'll have more tomorrow.

Sefugi, I don't know where to even start. I have looked at this build more than once when you were just getting started, my fault for not subscribing to it then. Wow, my head hurts from a big face palm. There's just not enough time to see everything all the time. I see you have another log going on now and I assure you I'll be subscribed after this post. I just read through all 43 pages, my time was not wasted. Determination, dedication, persistence and love for your family and your hobbies/passions are the best words I can come up with at the moment after reading this thread. I've taken on some big projects in my time, whether at work or at home, but none as big as this and done in a two car garage by a father and his son. I must admit that this car is not my style, but that doesn't matter, you and your son built the car you wanted or he wanted and that is what matters most. Congrats on a job extremely well done!! Detail is the thing that sets most o.k. things from over the top things and your project is over the top, Sirs I commend you both. Whether you realize it or not this is the type of build that inspires us all to achieve greater things. You and your son have gone above and outside the norm. in this build, I can only imagine the amount if time you both have in wiring alone, outside of the paint work. It's very easy to kill days on wiring that nobody will ever see, except in a log like this. I'm quite certain I can speak for all of us at SSA, Projects like this will inspire us all to achieve, desire and want to do better in all future endeavors. Thank you and keep fueling the passion!!

I hope you guys aren't disappointed by the ending, SPOILER. I plan to hide the SLS's behind the stock door panels, at least for now. My fiber glassing skills aren't quite good enough to blend into the plastic panels without looking funky, but I'll keep trying. I've got to say it again, SSA members are awesome people!!!

Thank you LBD, put down the corn and grab a beer. Better yet grab 2, you always need a traveler, right! :drink40:

Thanks denim, I sometimes wonder if I take too many. Then I remember you're all pic whores like me, so bring them on.

I don't know why, but I love that guy going in circles. Probably reminds me of me. Thanks buddy, I welcome all compliments!! You didn't miss anything. I've got about 3 or 4 days worth of work/pics in one post. I should have this wrapped up by this weekend. Besides you've been hella busy on you build, which is looking kick ass I might add!!

Thanks Cablguy!! Interesting you say. Well I'll admit it, you're right. I have hit my head a few times, I think, Can't remember for sure.

Thanks sefugi, I'll give my impressions after I get everything sorted out. This is a great forum, with allot extremely talented members on it and you all give allot of awesome feedback. I'm glad to be a member and I wish I'd found this forum a long time ago, it's definitely motivating.

I started to listen to the widebanders in my computer room powered off an old panisonic head unit, They get loud an play lower than they should. I played them full range with the door closed, my brother came up to see what the heel was going on. They really are great inexpensive speakers. If you can spare the cash I think you'd be surprised at what the can do.

Thanks for your compliment!! I've already tested the FR88's on the dash in 3" pvc end caps and they really sound great. I also tried the Tangband w3's, but preferred the Fr88's without a tweeter. They're ~ $30.00 from madisound each and worth every penny. In my ranger it required 1ms. delay, on the drivers side, to put the image/stage in front and to the right of me just outside of the windshield. Great price but I'm concerned how they could fit in my front stage without an amp, cause my amp now would too much power for them. Its a SAX 100.4. Maybe I can run them off head unit since they are 15 RMS? I'm not being gentle with the 88's, there more efficient then the FR89EX's and the 89's are 4 ohm versus the 88's @ 8 ohm.

Thank you Dictator!! Maybe I should change my name to IronMan or Metal...... something. I very much appreciate your compliment!!!

Thanks very much!! The FR88's sound pretty damn good and get decently loud while there at it. I'd say they're louder and cleaner than the JL XR-570's mounted in the doors when coupled with the sls's. I've not heard 2 sets of sls's yet, only 1 set with the FR88's and they kicked a**.

Thanks for your compliment!! I've already tested the FR88's on the dash in 3" pvc end caps and they really sound great. I also tried the Tangband w3's, but preferred the Fr88's without a tweeter. They're ~ $30.00 from madisound each and worth every penny. In my ranger it required 1ms. delay, on the drivers side, to put the image/stage in front and to the right of me just outside of the windshield.

Thanks, not Steve Mead for the compliment. I've been working with steel for more years than I care to count. I think this will turn out awesome in the end.

Thanks Mr.Bojangles, I can't wait til I finished and have music again!!

Interfire catalog Go to page 10 for recommended enclosure size.

I don't know how much longer the weather will hold so I'm trying to get this done quickly. I don't have anything to listen to right now except for the tires that need to be replaced. I've been working on this for ~ 4 days now, of and on. There have been many on this forum, too many to list, that have given suggestions on equipment and others that pushed me in the right direction in my mid bass thread. Thanks to all of you!! I soon will have a front stage that makes me want to just go out and listen again. The head unit >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Eclipse AV 8533 for now. Fountek FR88's.................powered by a JL 300/2.......................220 hertz and up. Peerless sls # 830946's..... powered by a sundown sax 125.2........200 hertz - ~ 75 hertz. Eclipse 88120ti dvc........... powered by a saz2000d......................65 hertz and down. I still need to redo the enclosure for the 88120, but that may have to wait until spring, we'll see. The FR88. The Peerless SLS The 88120 ti, not part of the front stage but part of the system. This is the victim, about to be violated and it knows nothing. I removed allot of the deadening already, what a pain in the a**! See you later xr--570. On to the enclosures. I started last Saturday, I think, with some enclosures for the front doors to house the SLS's, 4 of them total ( ~.3c.f. each sealed). I only have a metabo, jig saw and a welder. I really miss the equipment in the fab shop right about now, everything takes 4 times as long at home, oh well I'll stop bitching. This is a wonderful machine to have at home. Let's cut and shape some steel, 11 gauge by the way. I cut ~ half way through the steel then bend by hand. I'll fit this with finger clamps and pipe clamps as I go. A little later. I had to offset the chamber to clear the front window track, hence the angle. After some welding. The welds don't look the best, I needed to move quickly to keep the heat/warpage to a minimum. The added plate is to clear the magnet, oops. These enclosures will bolt into the door, lesson learned, i added some tabs to do this. I also have welded some 8-32 nuts to the backsides of the mounting holes. That's a big hole in the door. The test fit in the door with the mounting tabs. I still have allot of cleanup and deadening to do. With the front plate. I swear there must be a nest around here. The first one, in my mid bass thread was on my head, this one showed up right after I put the plywood bench in the garage. At least he wasn't on my friggin head again. I moved on to the FR88' mounting locations. I chose the A pillars and aimed them, thinking they'd be easier to wrap. Is it just me or does super glue only set quickly when it's on you fingers? I moved on to the hot glue instead. Drivers side. Pass. side. I thought about it over knight and changed my mind. I decided to go with the sail panels instead. I pulled the door panels off, prepped them and created a mold to mount the FR88's on. I figured I could get away with only wrapping the pod and having them look decent on the sail as opposed to having to wrap the whole A pillar. I aimed them, again. I then wrapped them. I'm using polishing cloth up til this point. I'll reinforce the pods on the inside after they're cured with fiberglass mat. Wrapped. First coat of resin. I don't like to apply resin to the mating surface of the speaker if possible, I want it to be flat as possible. The cloth will be cut away later. The ugly little SOB's, for now. I'll get back on the pods and the doors either Thurs. or Fri.. I need to get this done while the weather is still good.

Double post, sorry. please delete.

Must be one of those Pyramid 20,000 watters. If the mask is to keep you eyes in your head, what's the boxing glove for?