Speaker Panels for front. HELP!!!

71superbug The Itch Itcher

1,184 posts · joined May 2004 · 30 Jul 2004, 7:09 am

#209862

hey. i recenly purchased some 6 inch splits for the front of my beetle however as you may all know. they will not fit in the door panels due to mounting depth. i have had a look at a site in the U.S that does speaker panels. the site is

http://vwinnovations.com

i was trying to get a decent sized picture of what they are but the pics are tiny. anyone have any idea how i can mount these in the front?. or where i can purchase such speaker panels here? or anyone in that can make them?

thanks

Anthony

GL1972 Wolfsburg Wizard

432 posts · joined Aug 2003 · 30 Jul 2004, 12:23 pm

#209944

Anthony,
I have a 72 Super and had the same problem.
I used 3mm MDF sheet 30mm from the edge pillar to the wheel well and cut it to sit on the heater channel to almost to the top. Cut the hole for the speaker at the deepest point and also made speaker standoffs out of 19mm MDF with a jigsaw and painted them matte black.

Stood the sheet in place located the carpet over it and cut out for the speaker. Put the whole lot together with contact adhesive and screws 3mm MDF/Carpet/Speaker standoff.

The whole setup is held in place with the outer edges of the carpet contact glued to the body. It fills in the void between the wheel well and the pillar and the speaker does not impeede a fast footed gear shifter like myself.

Brendan

71superbug The Itch Itcher

1,184 posts · joined May 2004 · 30 Jul 2004, 7:01 pm

#210029

ahh k thanks man. the speakers have a mounting depth of 61mm.

any ideas what yours was?

and also do u have little components? (tweeters) ??.

i was thinking of actually mounting them flush in the dash. if u do wat did u do with yours?

GL1972 Wolfsburg Wizard

432 posts · joined Aug 2003 · 4 Aug 2004, 10:55 am

#211382

Mine were 48 mm back spacing and with the 19mm MDF spacer I had plenty of room to spare. It's all about getting the location in the space available right. Start with cardboard to make your template to get it right. You should be able to get a offcut of 30mm MDF from a cabinet maker(they use it for benches). If you take a template with you they might even cut it for you on a scroll saw if they have one, otherwise a router would be the go for something that deep. I don't have tweeters .... yet.

Brendan

1303Steve Scirocco Rare

8,650 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 4 Aug 2004, 12:42 pm

#211424

Hi

I bought some ABS plastic ones from the US years ago, they look cool but do get in the way of the right foot a little.

1302Steve

71superbug The Itch Itcher

1,184 posts · joined May 2004 · 4 Aug 2004, 2:38 pm

#211518

your right they do look cool. anyone have any idea of how much these would cost to land in aus?