Rear kick panel speakers

Yak about stuff. Just stuff.
Post Reply
User avatar
Maddel
Posts: 1462
Joined: June 29th, 2017, 8:30 am

Rear kick panel speakers

Card board mock-up...
Image

Backside of the card board mock-up with custom brackets.
The top bracket is bolted to the support bar, the bottom one will be glued to the pan using this stuff...
Image

Used 6mm plywood for the panels IIRC...
Image

Test fit the kick panels and aligned the mounting bolts...
Image

Mounting bolts not yet shortened, but the cutout for the hot air duct seems to fit nicely...
Image

Test fit the custom hot air duct...
Image

It's a modified speaker port reflex tube...
Image

Fixed with a waste pipe o-ring. The tube's mounting holes will be filled later...
Image

The speakers - nothing wild here...
Image

Baffle cutout with drive in nuts...
Image

Test fit the kick panels with speakers and hot air ducts mounted...
Image

Image

Image

Tight fit on the right hand side...
Image

Since I don't like "free air speakers" and the 5.25" chassis will not produce any significant bass I decided to add an enclosure...
Image

The equal capacity cabinets are drafted as large as possible...
Image

Added some damping polyester too...
Image

Here we go: a pair of kick panel speaker cabinets...
Image

Brightened the hot air ducts up a bit...
Image

Added some paint and needle felt...
Image

Speakers finally connected to the terminals and mounted...
Image

Kick panels ready to go into the Bug...
Image

Image

And installed. The Bolts are covered with some black plastic caps...
Image

Image

Image

A woofer was supposed to go in here but I wasn't able to design a layout that would fit.
Instead the sub-woofer will be placed under the passenger seat and it's amplifier will be mounted under the rear seat on the drivers side...
Image
User avatar
Super_Randy
Get off my lawn.
Posts: 1526
Joined: June 11th, 2017, 10:41 pm
Location: Bong Leach Commiefornia

Re: Rear kick panel speakers

:shock: holy damn! fully boxed and everything! and the carpeting looks totally professional. it's like car audio porn.
pretty sure im going to be doing this to mine, but i wont be going that crazy with it (not boxed and probably ether some kind of OEM looking covering or maybe a half ass carpet job) ...now if only wood would come down to a decent price...
you never learn nothin by mistake if you're to careful.
bad decisions make good memories.
User avatar
Maddel
Posts: 1462
Joined: June 29th, 2017, 8:30 am

Re: Rear kick panel speakers

Super_Randy wrote: August 27th, 2021, 8:08 pm... the carpeting looks totally professional...
I did all the cutting out and trimming of the needle felt whereas the bound hems were done by a pro car upholsterer.
A sewing machine is a tool I'm not that familiar with... :lol:
Post Reply