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8's in the doors of a Tahoe? sure why not. Rebuild time.


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Simple little build for the younger brother of the Camaro owner these past few nights. They are all finished and I'm waiting for the truck to come back to hang them.

The plan was to add in a pair of 8's to the rest of his system. Liking how my truck sounds and how well the camaro gets it, it was time for him to step up his game.

He's running a pair of Kenwood 5.25 and is adding the Rockford P2's Kinda glad they were 5.25 as making room for bigger would of sucked.

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Time to get to cutting the rings to mount these.

Outter ring is for the sub and the inner ring is to cradle the magnet in the door.

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Now to cut out for the 8.

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No pics of the metal cutting, but all I basically did was stack rings to match the depth needed for the subs and bolted them to the doors.

Now to make a flush ring.

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Mounted the sub so I can find where the 5 will sit under the flush ring.

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Once I like the layout, it was time to make it final.

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All i did was glass and mat in the holes to give support to bolt the pod to the door. Resin doesn't stick so well so it's how I made it secure.

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Next was to make the flush cover ring. this was my 1st idea, but just as I was about to begin, i switched and started idea #2, bout half way through, I ditched it and went back to idea #1.

I spray glue my fleece over the flush ring then resin it together without going down the sides.

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once it's dry, i then spray glue the fleece to the tape and use it to hold down the fleece while I resin it up. once I have 2 layers on top, I pull it and do a layer on the inside.

Trim off the extra material and then add a little filler to smooth out the bumps and she's almost done.

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Wrapped it up nice and shes ready to go on the truck

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Designing, building, and shipping boxes. Yahoo IM - kingsuv00If the listening level is too loud, please inform the driver, so he can promptly pull over, and let you out.

not many cars can get me to pluggin my ears but this one.......damn. I mean the first minute is ok but that thing just really starts digging deeper and deeper in your earhole till you cant stand it no more. Seems like it does it with relative ease....16 12's on 8 amps.........gotta love it. :)

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Bad Ass job man you made it look real easy. Is the 8 free air or is there an enclosure behind ???

2 DC Audio lvl 4 xl 18s D .7s walled off @ 30 hz

19 cubes net 245sq in of port

Sundown 3500 @ .7 Ohm

Sundown 100.4

Rockford Fosgat Power Series

5.25 Dash

6.5 Kicks

8 Coaxils Doors

250 mechicman alt

1 red top under the hood

2 yellow tops in back

big 3 with 1/0 knukonceptz wire

3 runs of +/- 1/0 knukonceptz wire

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trying the door as the airspace on this one. Can seal it up real easy if it doesnt work

Designing, building, and shipping boxes. Yahoo IM - kingsuv00If the listening level is too loud, please inform the driver, so he can promptly pull over, and let you out.

not many cars can get me to pluggin my ears but this one.......damn. I mean the first minute is ok but that thing just really starts digging deeper and deeper in your earhole till you cant stand it no more. Seems like it does it with relative ease....16 12's on 8 amps.........gotta love it. :)

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Dude, if I shipped my door panels to you, could you make some magic happen?

On 11/20/2012 at 8:54 PM, AMI CUSTOMS said:

Turned mine up today at a light, guy next to me his steering wheel started moving and he looked over at me like I was a magician lol.

On 5/9/2012 at 8:45 PM, skittlesRgood said:

fuck the plating. look at what the main metal used is. you could buy unicorn blood plated terminals but if its just covering up dog shit, whats the point

On 4/10/2013 at 12:26 PM, mrd6 said:

I'll admit, half way through sanding that fiberglass in the rain and cold while I was all itchy I was definitely starting to question why i was doing this haha

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Whats the cross over points for the 8s???

2 DC Audio lvl 4 xl 18s D .7s walled off @ 30 hz

19 cubes net 245sq in of port

Sundown 3500 @ .7 Ohm

Sundown 100.4

Rockford Fosgat Power Series

5.25 Dash

6.5 Kicks

8 Coaxils Doors

250 mechicman alt

1 red top under the hood

2 yellow tops in back

big 3 with 1/0 knukonceptz wire

3 runs of +/- 1/0 knukonceptz wire

IT LBS

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at first i thought you meant an 8" woofer and i was unimpressed

but then i saw a sub. changed my mind real quick

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Nice job billiam.

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