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Well, this Monday I started my first ever fiberglass project. I am making doorpods for my DLS 6.3 3-way component set. I started the back half fiberglass enclosures. These will be part of the the sealed enclosure for the midbass. I utilized the factory 5.25" mounting cup, and filled it to create half of a sealed enclosure. This mount/enclosure used to bolt to the sheetmetal of the door, and the plastic doorpanel is mounted in front of it. Since this mount is being replaced with the rear fiberglass enclosure, I am guaranteed a perfect fit, dont have to cut any sheetmetal, eliminate depth concerns, and will seriously increase the imaging, depth, etc.. I removed the OEM speaker grilles from the doorpanels, the rear half of the fiberglass enclosure will be portruding through these holes, thtough to the surface of the doorpanel, where the baffle will be glassed/molded into both the rear half fiberglass enclosure and the surface of te doorpanel itself. In the end the midbasses will be completely sealed, and the finished product will look as OEM as possible. The actual MDF speaker mounting baffle, which will hold the midbass and the 3" midrange will actually be in front of the plastic doorpanel, and the surface of it will be glassed, and molded. Basically, this is the least intrusive, but most tedious and hardest way to attack this. More pics located here. *note Those OEM grilles in the doorpanels probably throw off the mental picture you will get. The baffles will actually be mounted parallel to the bottom ledge in the doorpanel, the midbass closer to the firewall. They will also be pointed up at an agle vs. firing at my ankles. I will take another pic and update tomorrow with the cardboard templates I made showing what the mounting will look like. Keep in mind that this is my FIRST EVER fiberglass project. I read a lot of tutorials, so I think I got most everything down pat. The mat I have is pretty thick, and I had a hard time getting it to lie flat around some of the edges. I will probably lay down another layer tomorrow...then cut my baffles out (you can see the preliminary design lined ou on that sheet of MDF in the background in some of the pics) and then blend this enclosure to the baffle with more glass.

i just uploaded all my pics to my webhost... they will be posted in a few minutes...

i promise ill have pics tonight.

dang. my boss just called. looks like im going in to work early today... see you guys later.

Oh yeah and BTW, can anyone here hook me up with Knukonceptz stuff (for prices cheaper than on their site)? I just need some of those new Krystal Cable RCA Interconnects.

Anyone here drive a 94-99 Suburban/Tahoe/Yukon?? I have a billet Chevrolet bowtie emblem, and a billet gas door cover from my recently-departed Suburban that I have no use for. I also have clear parking lights and clear corners (which will fit 94-99 Chevy/GMC Silverado/Tahoe/Suburban/Yukon/etc.) I will probably list all this stuff on eBay, but I'll give first crack at it to whoever might be interested here.

My MA Audio HK-602sx is up on eBay.....only about 4 hours left. If anyone is interested... http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...me=STRK:MESE:IT (If you look at "view seller's other items" - the game account is my little brother's, I'm just selling it for him. I'm not a nerd!)

I got the installation gear from HiFiSoundConnection.com. I have shopped with them before and they are pretty easy to deal with. Their site is quite well oganized. They are the cheapest that I have found so far (less than darvex.com) and the speaker wire was purchased from a private seller on eBay.

^^ x2 ^^ Just bought my installation stuff and speaker wire. Hopefully, I get around to posting pics of the doopods I started last night.

nice choice of username. welcome.

I use a Olympus C-60 Zoom. It is a bit fuzzy at times..and I mainly use it for quick shots, but it is a very nice, compact size. When it wants to be, its a great little digicam. The newer Nikon Coolpix models are also pretty small and take excellent images.

Dennis, I got the Iridiums from a private seller on eBay. He needed cash fast, and I told him to end the auction early. The 4000D I purchased from Ralph Randall (aka the President of USACi). The Diamond Audio amp was purchased from Ubid.com on a closeout sale. The Premier P9 setup was purcased from IkeSound.com.

STFU N00b! j/k welcome to our humble site.

Your pics came out great...really makes me want to visit Philly... what kind of camera are you using??

Dang, I got to restart the comp. Tom if you see this I will post pics a bit later..

Guess I scared him away with all my numbers....

What happened to Dennis?

^^ You WILL buy this sub ^^

And I consider that very cheap for a high end SQL system.

Pioneer Premier DEX-P9/DEQ-P9 - $724.90 (shipped) DLS Ultimate Iridium 6.3 - $518 (shipped) Diamond Audio D7056 - $403.19 (shipped) Soundsplinter RL-P12D2 (2 @ 199.99 ea.) - $450 (shipped) MA Audio HK-4000D - $400 (shipped) SecondSkin Spectrum V2 + Undercoating Gun (2gal. @ 27 ea.) - $78 (shipped) Iraggi 220A alternator - $247 (shipped) Nakamichi Banana Plugs (6pk) - $20 (shipped) 100' Esoteric 14awg speaker wire - $21 (shipped) Stinger Installation Accessories/Terminals - $40.00 (shipped) Stinger 1/0 awg Wiring Kit - $90.00 (shipped) Fiberglass + supplies - $79.82 (purchased locally) TOTAL - $3,072.01 and its not even done yet....

Oh.. Give me a minute to add everything up