Door pod inprogress

[Soundofav6]

Exams just finished and jumped into my door pod build. Not to worry... it wouldn't not be a FULLY sick build, I will keep it as OEM and as functionaly as possible.

I have been thinking about my mid range in kick position for VERY long time but after few hours of playing, I found mid in kick didn;t have a "warm" feeling, so I decided I am going to mount the 4" angled along with 6.5" slightly angled in OEM positon.

Hopefully this pod will give a more stable mounting and air tight fitting for extra mid bass.

Only just the begining, I still need to re-enforce fibreglass, make the skeleton and play with best angle for optimum SQ.

More to come tomorrow, enough for today.





Should I MDF the 6.5" on the door frame and tunnel the speaker out or should I mount the 6.5" on the pod itself. My worry is insuffeicent air in door pod. Is there such a thing ?

[rayray086]

Phwoar impressive. Can't wait til my Uni projects have been completed

[Lorenz]

Nice work there mate

Ive been looking into making door pods for my front aswell, just the 6.5" midrange, wanna bring it out a tad and give it some more room plus change the appearance of the stock lower trim. I bought some already made door pods, but soon found they wouldnt fit with the door closed Could modify them to fit, but alas, I cant be assed atm and have just re-covered the trim anyway!

Look forward to the updates, looks interesting

[Soundofav6]

So when do you finish your exams/ assignments Ray. We shall continue our good old holiday DIYs once again.

Lorenz You know what you can do... With out spoiling your retrim too much, and do a simple pod.
soemthing like this ( this dude used a 8" woofer and massive angle, looks ugly but should sound awesome. )


with 2 MDF rings on a V shape and use the fibreglass I gave you, that should plenty.

[rayray086]

So when do you finish your exams/ assignments Ray. We shall continue our good old holiday DIYs once again.

Next Wednesday, dammit. But I've got lots of things to keep me occupied with my car until next Semester starts Can't wait to get Uni work over and done with.

I've seen a few setups where the speakers were placed in the footwell - how's that for optimum sound travel in the car?

[Soundofav6]

Totally know how you feel... I am excited for you.

Not sure about foot well. but thats a very odd position, I have only seen fullysick set ups with 10" subs on foot well.

[Mrk_Mickey]

Louis, I remember all those pictures you showed me of those fiberglass projects when we were finishing my car. I'd love to have just the time to do that stuff, let alone the skill! Lovely work, as always, can't wait to see the finished product!

By the way I am thinking of revamping my sub box and making a corner-mounted sealed enclosure for better space and better sound, i'll talk to you about it if i get some time haha

[Soundofav6]

Louis, I remember all those pictures you showed me of those fiberglass projects when we were finishing my car. I'd love to have just the time to do that stuff, let alone the skill! Lovely work, as always, can't wait to see the finished product!

By the way I am thinking of revamping my sub box and making a corner-mounted sealed enclosure for better space and better sound, i'll talk to you about it if i get some time haha

YEah they are very inspirational huh. Well when you have the time let me know... You Know where to get fibreglass supplies and help from.

[Soundofav6]

So I spent a good half of the day moulding the other left door and cut up some MDF for the skeleton.

I am happy that it I still have plenty of space to play with once in the car, tomorrow I will have stablise the whole structure, hopefully glass everything all together properly.

One thing I didn't think of. Does anyone know if I should have the speakers in seperate compartments or is it ok to just use one, ie nothing separating the 2? I know in the case of sub boxes it's always separating the 2 subs.

[HOLEIN1]

One thing I didn't think of. Does anyone know if I should have the speakers in seperate compartments or is it ok to just use one, ie nothing separating the 2? I know in the case of sub boxes it's always separating the 2 subs.

you will need to have the 4" driver seperate from the 6

the 4" will not need much of an enclosure, but just make sure that they are seperate from eachother

looking tops mate, cant wait for my uni exams to be over either, as possibly, perhaps, mabe some of my stuff may get a home in the golf, fingers crossed

good to see another car audio fan on here amongst the majority of perfomance nuts