Hi,

Has anyone ever tried doing this? Did you have any success? Did it make a difference in the overall sound of your speakers?

I'm pulling the door trim panels off to apply dynamat. While I'm in there I'm going to look for a way to create a small enclosure for the woofers in the doors, maybe using foam and caulk. Is it possible to use the space between the inner and outer metal door panels as enclosure walls?

Thanks for any input, suggestions or advice.

 

I dont theres enough room for an enclusure. I have seen people put 5" subs in the kick panels though.

 

Thanks for the reply. Very nice looking car, by the way.

After poking around a little more, I don't see much opportunity for sealing the door up.

What about at least dynamatting? Any suggestions there? I see a big sheet of plastic held in place with a very gooey adhesive. Has anyone ever removed this sheet and replaced it with a layer of dynamat?

 

Making a small enclosure for the front would help out the midbass response, you'll definitely get some excellent midbass with the right driver with the sealed enclosure. Being that most need very little enclosure volume, you could make an enclosure with little difficulty.

If you take off your door panel, look on the inside part towards the bottom and you'll notice it indents some all the way from where the speaker mounts to almost the opposite end. You could possibly make a mold of the inside portion of that indention in the door panel and use that as a base to make an enclosure you could affix to the door frame. You could still pull the panel off if needs be doing it this way.

or

you could make the enclosure on the actual panel, utilizing that space and mount the speaker to the panel from behind and seal it all up with a removable back fixture of some kind...wood/fiberglass, etc.

plenty of different ways to do it and it would be worth it, give it a whirl.

 

Very interesting idea!

At first I couldn't visualize where you were talking about. Then I just looked at the door panel. I see what you mean. Maybe I could do something with it.

What about that funny looking plastic box mounted in this area, the one labelled "protector"? Anyone know what it does or whether I could remove it (to make the enclosure bigger)?

Thanks!

 

What about just those cheapo baffles sold by Lucid and Crutchfield...would those help?

 

I think Darkknight1999 has this done. Take a look at his website with his car photos. The speakers are flush mounted with the door panel. He might have sealed the area behind there. You might want to PM him and ask if he has done this.

The problem with sealing the door, w/out moving the speaker location (i.e.-flush with door panel) is the window path. There is only like a few inches there.

John

 

Thanks. Do you have a link to darkknight's web site?

 

Adding the speaker baffles does help quite a bit with getting a little more mid-bass out of the door speakers - IMHO

 

quick,easy,and works almost as well.