If reconed properly it could save you half the amount of a new driver and sound just as good. Might even want to contact SS Electronics here as he is a site sponsor and see if they can maybe ship out a recone kit.

 

Well the Type R might be worth it but your correct in some sense with the E's but if he gets the E's for nothing and there are worth about $130 retail means the cone is around $32.50 give or take and does them himself the means in the pair he would have $65 invested and might be able to sell them for double. Plus be able to give himself a ataboy pat on the back then hey Im all for it.

 

thanks.
ive done a kicker, so ive got one under my belt, whats more practice.
the kicker worked fine, still have it.

 

No no i meant double meaning $130 for the pair. And for most about 75% recone kits are about half of dealer cost in Canada. Now thats for the ones I have purchased, havn't done Alpine before but I could be totally wrong too cost wise.

 

^ n00b.... the coil scraping comment is kind of harsh and Iam sure you wouldn't say such nonsense to someone inquiring about DD or RE recone kits..... (ect)

At anyrate... alpine (as far as I know) dosen't offer 'recones' or 'recone kits' in the first place........... but if they did a type R or X just might be worth doing! But no, Iam pretty sure they only offer 'throw away' subs.....

otherwise you are looking at a 'custom' job...... FYI I've reconed new and old R's... but I've yet to see a blown X that needed a recone... (must be a solid sub?!)

 

you know what helps line up the coil's, run a couple watts through it and a 20-30 hz tone and it lines up its self, the electric feild center's the coil itslef.

 

and thanks haunz, thats all i needed to know. but do you know of another recone kit that has all the same spec's as a type r? not for wattage and ohm, but for size, height, coil diam, and so on?