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 71superbug
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| posted on July 30th, 2004 at 07:09 AM |
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Speaker Panels for front. HELP!!!
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
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| posted on July 30th, 2004 at 12:23 PM |
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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
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| posted on July 30th, 2004 at 07:01 PM |
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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?
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| posted on August 4th, 2004 at 10:55 AM |
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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
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| posted on August 4th, 2004 at 12:42 PM |
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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
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| posted on August 4th, 2004 at 02:38 PM |
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your right they do look cool. anyone have any idea of how much these would cost to land in aus?
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