its my wife Carly's birthday today, so no work to do today. I got her new roller blade wheels and bearings, a motorcycle jacket (as she does not have one yet), and im taking her out to a movie theatre dinner place. yesterday we went to abby road resturant on the virginia beach boulevard.
and good news, and bad news. speakers are installed finally. holes are drilled for the baffle but i need to get longer bolts.
bad news is i dont have any pictures. im going to vacuum all the debris out tomorrow as it is dark out. and ill take some pics. im exhausted, so shower + bed. being up early and on day shift is killing me lol. im not used to being up so early haha.
so ill have the stereo running by friday. im so pumped.
so i plugged everything in for the first time in however long i cant remember in the dark last night, and my left IDQ didnt work, turns out that the speaker lead came off the speaker while i was screwing it in.
its a stupid design anyway, there are 4-way solder\quick connect tabs on the side of the basket. but the hole cut out for the basket makes it almost impossible to use the tabs because the quick connects come out horizontal to the cone movement and interfere with the baffle, so you need to bend them way over to get the speaker to fit. i must have rotated it and pulled it out.
either way, i figured it out and everything else worked perfect.
now i just need to do EQ. level match. clean the car.
i need to fix one of the baffle bolts because my smart ass drilled one of the subwoofer baffle holes too close to the angle iron side and i cant get the bolt on there
my apartment is a mess right now. i need to be at work by 9:30am and my wife just left. i think im going back to sleep...
sigh.
oh yea. and my doors rattle like nothing else. 2 pounds of duct seal (like modeling clay) in the pods, ~10 pounds or so of deadener on the inside of the door. i have not put deadener on the door card, so i really think i need to do that. looks like ill be placing an order for some sound deadener, because these rattles are killer.
so i plugged everything in for the first time in however long i cant remember in the dark last night, and my left IDQ didnt work, turns out that the speaker lead came off the speaker while i was screwing it in.
its a stupid design anyway, there are 4-way solder\quick connect tabs on the side of the basket. but the hole cut out for the basket makes it almost impossible to use the tabs because the quick connects come out horizontal to the cone movement and interfere with the baffle, so you need to bend them way over to get the speaker to fit. i must have rotated it and pulled it out.
either way, i figured it out and everything else worked perfect.
now i just need to do EQ. level match. clean the car.
i need to fix one of the baffle bolts because my smart ass drilled one of the subwoofer baffle holes too close to the angle iron side and i cant get the bolt on there
my apartment is a mess right now. i need to be at work by 9:30am and my wife just left. i think im going back to sleep...
sigh.
oh yea. and my doors rattle like nothing else. 2 pounds of duct seal (like modeling clay) in the pods, ~10 pounds or so of deadener on the inside of the door. i have not put deadener on the door card, so i really think i need to do that. looks like ill be placing an order for some sound deadener, because these rattles are killer.
deadner wont do anything
get a roll of yellow insulation and cram in between the door panel and the door itself in every possible cavity and crevice.
but could also just be an eq issue
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yellow fiberglass insulation. its denser than polyfill. donot use pink unless you like to be itchy and have your lunch catch on fire everyday
In your area , like ours, they may not have yellow so get white, same general thing.
also, may want to do some dense foam behind the pod where it attaches to the door. sometimes clay materials are too solid and donot decouple enough.
so a couple cheap options. there are these blue foam camping pads at walmart that Ive used in the past that work well.
and also foam adding insulation by armorex i think.
2010 MECA Extreme World champion,
2005 IASCA World Champion Pro 600+
2010 MECA Mike Baylor Sportsmanship Award
2011 MECA SQL Spirit Award
2012 MECA SQL Judge of The Year
2012 IASCA FINALS SQ/INSTALL Judge
2012 USACi Japan Finals Judge
i used the duct seal to decouple the pods (well, housings\baffles) from the door panel, and like you said, its seriously firm, about the consistancy of clay. i think that foam will be a better idea... ill give it a try.
i know what you are talking about as far as the insulation stuff. should i use polyester or glass wool? ill see what i can do.
i think im going to use some hot glue to make sure the door cards are together and not buzzing against the joints.
blue foam camping pads, i know what you mean. but do you mean between the pod and the door? that might be too thick of a material to retain the door to fit. im not sure how much further out i can push the pod lol. its got some tight tolerances.
i thought i snapped some pictures, but i guess i didnt lol. ill see what i can do. its raining out so i dont know what i can do. ill try the insualtion because it seems to be a simple solution.
yea i have a simple idea. im going to make some of those "foam speaker cups" that people have, but im going to make it out of mass loaded vynl lol. i have a bunch of scraps that should be fine. some hot glue and some scissors should do the trick.
i also am loading up the door panels with mass loaded vynl, and as instructed by Mic Wallace, im going to put a bunch of insualtion (you know, wall insualtion) in there too. i got some serious buzzing going on lol!!
some stuff i did to the rattling door panels. it has come to my attention that all the plugs that connect to the switches and such were rattling. the panels were vibrating, and in general there were too many buzz'z.
so i took my high temp glue gun and reinforced all the joints between the panels and such. just after this there were significantly less panel noises just when i was holding the door cards.
then i took the scraps i had left over of Mass Loaded Vynl (souddeadenershowdown) and used the hot glue gun to attach it all to the inside of the panel. now they are way more rigid and about 3 pounds heavier lol. i need to put a few more pieces on there, but i ran out of scraps.
yikes, really? you drive a Seat or an old porche or something? i just wish that my door panels used screws all the way around versus the stupid snap in parts?
lol, i guessed seat because i saw your install before
amazing job on those pillars. they came out perfect in my opinion!
i finished loading the doors with MLV. i also put a layer of epoxy resin on the exposed MDF for the door pods, so i dont have to worry about them being wet. after i removed the IDQ8's i noticed that i was definatly getting tinsel slap, because i can see marks on the back side of the cone from rubbing. i am going to shorten the tinsels by a few milimeters, and make a rain shield for them.
i *should* have friday off, and all day saturday to finish and do *SOME* tuning hhahah. (ya right)
then im off to the blacksburg, VA meet on sunday the 3rd of april!
yea, im glad that i saw that there is a rain problem this early. there should be no damage on my door pods now. a nice coat of resin to make sure of this. so now im just going to make a shield tomorrow. i was planning on doing it today - but i had to stay late at work to be a catch crew for four of our f/a-18e superhornets returning from nellis, nevada. once they got back (about 1730ish) i got home by 6 and made dinner with my wife, but the sun was already going down. so i just epoxied the baffles and finished the MLV with the doors. tomorrow she is bringing me to a suprise concert that is an uncertain distance away, because its a suprise. she even talked to my work center supervisor and got me the day off too.
so i dont know if ill be able to work tomorrow, but friday\saturday is the deadline i have set for a fully functioning and working stereo!
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BTW, I remember those days of building the car in the parking lot, even did it when I was TDY to Ft. Euseless, I mean Ft. Eustis..
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