Rear Speaker Advice

[Rich80]

When I bought my 80 the rear speakers were kind of hanging in the back and sounded terrible. No bass. I replaced them with some 220Watt 6 x 9 pioneers and they still sounded terrible. I found a link on how to build speaker boxes and mounted the Pioneers in the box. What a difference. Bass! The pic is rough, had to clean up and shampoo the carpet but looks ok till I'm ready to put some new carpet in


http://www.boomspeed.com/rich80/Im001933.jpg

http://www.diymobilesound.com/box1.htm

 

[lobes290]

wht radio/amp are you using?

 

[Rich80]

wht radio/amp are you using?

Went with a Pioneer DEH1500. 50 watts per channel. Bought a used center console bezel, drew the outline of the radio mounting chassis on the bezel where I wanted the radio to slide in and started cutting with a hacksaw blade very SLOWLY. Finished the cutout with a dremel tool till the mounting bracket fit in. The only problem i had was after I had the mounting bracket in, I slide the radio in, and on the corners where I had ground the bezel with the dremel it chipped away a little too much woodgrain so you could see on the top two corners some imperfections. I took care of that by fitting a rubber O-ring around the radio bezel. The o-ring fits nice and snug, can be removed in a second and actually looks nice the way it forms around the radio.

 

[celeryman22]

Im currently redoing the interior. I tried to get the rear speakers to fit but they are too big. So instead I painted the speaker grills the color if the interior. If the new carpet ever gets here I will install them and take a picture. So far the sound is pretty good. Alpine 6x9, Sony 4x6 and a Sony Cd player.

BTW is you 80 Dark mettalic green?

 

[Rich80]

Im currently redoing the interior. I tried to get the rear speakers to fit but they are too big. So instead I painted the speaker grills the color if the interior. If the new carpet ever gets here I will install them and take a picture. So far the sound is pretty good. Alpine 6x9, Sony 4x6 and a Sony Cd player.

BTW is you 80 Dark mettalic green?

Black

 

[Full_Blown]

I'm looking at replacing the speakers all around but I'd prefer not to choip anything in. I'm partial to Bose myself has anyone tryed this configuration on any 78 - 80 models?

FbB

 

[Ludigdrums]

This is a pic of what I did. Still not up to my standards of bass response...but way way better than before! I plan on installing a sub woofer somewhere, that will really round out the total sound.

- Jeremy

 

[steves1980]

Hey i just found out my Hard drive on my main PC is gone, i had these boxes saved , the pics you or someone posted, how to make them and all the sizes, anyway i could get the person that posted that to repost so i can save it again, i will print it out this time, 2nd Hard drive in 3 weeks, wife pc hard drive went a few weeks ago, are we hard on them or what ty steve

 

[steves1980]

HaHa found the post , saved them all, and printing now