800W frontstage anyone ? :P
Yeah, I have pics of the entire installation process actualy. You can check it out here : aposloth - Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting
I don't feel like linking every pic seperately. I gets tedious after a while... hehe...
As far as power usage... I doubt I ever use more than... oh... 4 or 5 watts ? Maybe 10 if I want a slight ringing in my ears.....
If I want massive ringing, I'll turn her up all the way and use... maybe.... 150~200W ?
Of course, this is calculated with me using 20~25% of the power considering it's dynamic music.
I don't feel like linking every pic seperately. I gets tedious after a while... hehe...
As far as power usage... I doubt I ever use more than... oh... 4 or 5 watts ? Maybe 10 if I want a slight ringing in my ears.....
If I want massive ringing, I'll turn her up all the way and use... maybe.... 150~200W ?
Of course, this is calculated with me using 20~25% of the power considering it's dynamic music.
0 Watt CAFz'r
Joined: Oct 2007
Posts: 21
wow the end result pictures look amazing..it looks excatly like the car..it blended in...really nice work...love it..it's inspiring me to do my own now..sinc eim beginner i'm not gonana touch my car..i might mess it up..or most likely i will....
still love how you did it..mind explanning?..setp by step procedures?.....
i'm going to search the ent aswell fo tutorials...
where did you get ur toold form like the equipment...
still love how you did it..mind explanning?..setp by step procedures?.....
i'm going to search the ent aswell fo tutorials...
where did you get ur toold form like the equipment...
Basicaly, here's how it was done (i didn't do it myself, but helped out a bit in doing so).
1. First step, line the inside of the car with masking tape as you don't want any resin on your stuff.
2. Apply layers of resin + fiberglass. That will give you the inner part of the kick panel.
3. Once the fiberglass is done curing, remove it from the car, and mark the shape you want the back of your kickpanel to have with a marker or whatever. Then, cut it out. You can sand it a little to get the ruff out of it edges.
4. Make MDF rings to hold your speakers. You'll also want to make some kind of "box" for the speaker to absorb the backwaves when playing them for the testing period. We used an empty peanut container (the clear plastic thingy).
5. Have fun here. You'll be playing around with angles and position here to figure out what sounds best to you. This can take up a fair amount of time. If you have someone with you to help out in the positionning, it would be really helpful.
6. Once your position / angle is determined, hot glue the mdf ring in place using popsicle sticks or something like that.
7. Get an old t-shirt or some other fabric that is stretcheable to put over your shape. Stretch it out real good and hot glue it to the back of your fiberglass panel.
8. Apply resin and fiberglass to the fabric, and start building up a few layers here. Don't put any fiberglass over where the speaker will be mounting. You don't need to build up that area as the MDF is already there and should be able to hold your speaker. :P
9. Let the fiberglass cure, and sand it down a bit to get a nice smooth finish.
10. Here's where you have to decide how you're going to finish it. In our case, we just put some vinyl over it, so you don't need anything fancy when finishing the kick panel. In our case, it was sanded down with 80~100 grit sandpaper, and a final layer of resin was added after that. Then, 3M super 77 spray-on adhesive was used to put the glue the vinyl on. But, that came off at the first sign of heat, hence, we'll be painting the kickpanels eventualy.
If you want to paint, you have to get a much cleaner finish, using finishing putty, wet sanding with really fine sand paper as once you apply paint to it, every imperfection will show through, and, you don't want any of those... imperfections = not cute.
You can look up tutorials on fiberglassing pretty easily on the net. But, that's roughly how my kickpanels were made.
In the end, they were stuffed with teddy-guts for better sound and some dynamat was thrown in for good measure.. :P
1. First step, line the inside of the car with masking tape as you don't want any resin on your stuff.
2. Apply layers of resin + fiberglass. That will give you the inner part of the kick panel.
3. Once the fiberglass is done curing, remove it from the car, and mark the shape you want the back of your kickpanel to have with a marker or whatever. Then, cut it out. You can sand it a little to get the ruff out of it edges.
4. Make MDF rings to hold your speakers. You'll also want to make some kind of "box" for the speaker to absorb the backwaves when playing them for the testing period. We used an empty peanut container (the clear plastic thingy).
5. Have fun here. You'll be playing around with angles and position here to figure out what sounds best to you. This can take up a fair amount of time. If you have someone with you to help out in the positionning, it would be really helpful.
6. Once your position / angle is determined, hot glue the mdf ring in place using popsicle sticks or something like that.
7. Get an old t-shirt or some other fabric that is stretcheable to put over your shape. Stretch it out real good and hot glue it to the back of your fiberglass panel.
8. Apply resin and fiberglass to the fabric, and start building up a few layers here. Don't put any fiberglass over where the speaker will be mounting. You don't need to build up that area as the MDF is already there and should be able to hold your speaker. :P
9. Let the fiberglass cure, and sand it down a bit to get a nice smooth finish.
10. Here's where you have to decide how you're going to finish it. In our case, we just put some vinyl over it, so you don't need anything fancy when finishing the kick panel. In our case, it was sanded down with 80~100 grit sandpaper, and a final layer of resin was added after that. Then, 3M super 77 spray-on adhesive was used to put the glue the vinyl on. But, that came off at the first sign of heat, hence, we'll be painting the kickpanels eventualy.
If you want to paint, you have to get a much cleaner finish, using finishing putty, wet sanding with really fine sand paper as once you apply paint to it, every imperfection will show through, and, you don't want any of those... imperfections = not cute.
You can look up tutorials on fiberglassing pretty easily on the net. But, that's roughly how my kickpanels were made.
In the end, they were stuffed with teddy-guts for better sound and some dynamat was thrown in for good measure.. :P
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Joined: Nov 2006
Posts: 228
big dick club entry-
whatever a jl 300/4 and jl 450/4 put out.
sum "tests" say its more like 95rms x4 instead of 75 x4.
so i got like +900rms up front......but prob not cuz the gain isnt "max unclipped output" its more like "max tolerable volume limit"
whatever a jl 300/4 and jl 450/4 put out.
sum "tests" say its more like 95rms x4 instead of 75 x4.
so i got like +900rms up front......but prob not cuz the gain isnt "max unclipped output" its more like "max tolerable volume limit"
