tallbozo

iTrader: (5)

So we all know that the small speakers in the kicker pannels just aren't enough...so i was wondering if anyone has made their own for bigger speakers. If so, could you post some pics or even show how to do it.

greeddennis

I've made some for my used to be Mazda B2600i, I deleated my page that had the process of doing it but to put it plainly.

1) make sure you have enough time to do it. Remove the wood/carpet kicker and use that as a base for the skeleton you will be making.

2) Get some wood of some sort or plastic, whatever floats your boat and make a skeleton of what the speaker will sit on and give it some rigidity.

3) take a plastic garbag bag or some tougher plastic, maybe that vapor barrier stuff for insulating and drywalling. and wrap that around the wood/plastic frame you will of made before this point. try and get it to the best shape you can and then make sure its secured in place. staples hot glue gun whatever works for you.

4) get some fibreglass start mixing the **** up and put the batting over the plastic then begin to "paint" the resin on onto the batting.

5) try to form the fibreglass or "batting" to the desired shape if you couldnt get the plastic to form right in certain places.

6) let it dry.

7) you can either remove the fibreglass from the mold "the plastic ****" and then take that plastic off the skeleton. Then place the fibreglass back on, cut out the hole for the speaker, get your pain brush and some more resin ready and slap on some more of it inside so that it wraps around the skeleton good and tight. also try and fill as many holes now as you can so you dont have to fill them later.

8) let dry again. Once dried, sand/file down and pointy fibreglass and then get yourself some bondo and start filling in the holes, and low spots then sand again.

9) sand away, and prime and paint and clear coat it and there you go.

Biggest thing is time consuption, I never finished the ones i did, I didnt even get to the bondo part. Then i was getting rid of the truck so i didnt care anymore i just took them out and chucked em away.

Anyone has anything to add or another way of doing it, go right ahead, im no expert at this thats fosure I just thought id say how i went about and how i would of gone about the processes.

Good luck.

trochoid

iTrader: (6)

Before I started the fiberglass work on the widebody kit install, I Googled looking for how-to sites on fiberglassing. Came across a number of them that had step by step pics and text on the exact thing you are looking for.

The process is really quite simple. I suggest installing them in the door panels though, as the kick panel install may interfere with foot placement, i.e., the dead pedal on the driver's side.

struhall

and if you put bigger speakers in the kick panels, you will have to cut metal out of the panel itself behind the carpet.

just go buy some better stock size speakers and enjoy

Manntis

I just put pioneer speakers of stock size in there - worked great.

busterz

Just started laying out kick panels to hold a 6 in. component system (Infinity). Standing the 6 in. speaker out a bit so I dont have to cut metal and tipping it up to aim toward driver / pass seats. Using good 1/4 in. plywood for panels and 3/4 in. plywood for speaker rings. All gets coated with fiberglass cloth/resin to fill in and smooth it up. The top layer may be carbon fiber (not yet decided). Parts have all been cut out and test fit - but my resin is no good so I need to get a new can.