UBL: Lbox88's 2009 Equinox

[Lbox88]

It has begun



Got the rear hatch panel off, rear passenger door too. Already need to go buy some new plastic fasteners, only broke one so far but I know more are to meet the same fate


Need to peal the plastic back to see what's behind and pull the stock speaker out.





Now I was thinking of where to put the crossover. Was kind of thinking of trying to find a spot in the door panel or on top of the door panel with holes through it for the wire. Part of me says in the door for a more stealthy look, part says add some flare and put it on the panel. if it was on top, it would be above where the 6.5 sits.

Maybe parallel at an angle along side the line where the grey meets the black on the panel right above the speaker location
Looks like there are some open spots on the inside of the door panel I can hide them at too if you look up above at the door panel piece I already have off.

[Lbox88]

Rear hatch is done

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Wiped the inside of the door down before I started putting the Damp Pro on.

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Swung by the stealership to see if they could get me some retainer clips like this


They said they could get me some by Monday..... for $4.84...... a piece.

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Looking from the inside of door. No problem, right?



From inside of the B pillar



Now what the fuck am I supposed to do with something like this?





How am I supposed to run wire around that big piece of shit?

Ended up grinding the opening a tiny bit and using 18ga wire.

[Lbox88]

This is one of my trim rings, kinda ugly but I'll be working on it tomorrow.



Compared to the bottom part of the stock speaker I cut off.



Took the passenger rear door speaker out and destroyed it for fun.



Look at the wee little voice coil lol





Second skin on the PR door is done, just need to run wire to it. Then on both rear doors, just need to mount the crossover and speaker, wire 'em up, and put the doors back together.

[Lbox88]

So, got a little work done to each of the back doors.

Driver Rear











Passenger Rear







My temporary labels, gotta figure out something more permanent





Also looking at where to flush mount the tweeters for the rear doors. The way the door is molded, in many spots the panel is too close to the inside of the doors webbing to mount them. Here's one panel, no tweet:



Thinking here would be a decent spot, depth seems to be good enough I shouldn't have clearance issues and this angles the tweeters toward the rear passengers and up a little:

[Lbox88]

So, I'm going to do some measuring tonight to see if I can get the tweets higher. Grim and I got to talking and I looked back on the pic below, and if I get lucky, I just might have the depth I need to put them up in that top right corner near the green retainer clip.

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First of all, I grossly overestimated the depth of these tweets as well as the deep available that I had. The tweeters in this kit are just a couple cunt hairs thicker than .75"



I had about 1"~1.5" of depth to work with



So I measured it out several times, marked it, and took a leap



Set the tweeter in to see how it looked and fit





Put the panel on to see how my depth was before I ground it out to make the tweeter fit



Got about 1 1/8"



Put the flush cup in to test fit, nice and snug without warping the panel





Put the door back on to see fit and placement



Now, here's my thing: how to keep the tweeter in? I noticed that the kit came with this black bird shit lookin' stuff, I assume it's for the tweeter.





Now does it go on the lip on the inside of the tweeter? So that is mashes against the lip on the inside of the cup?

Does it go on the underside of the lip on the front side of the flush cup?

Or do I put the cup in its hole and then hot glue the cup in place from the back side so it holds on tight but can be ripped out if it needs to be replaced?

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I took the bird shit stuff and stuck it around the backside of the tweeter and mounted it in the cup, then mounted the cup in the door.





Went to wire it up and decided to secure the wire near the tweet to have a pull relief spot just in case.







Also, the crossovers were a little bit loose in their casing, so I went ahead and took the time now to secure the boards before they come loose







Put the door back together, doesn't seem to have any clearance or fit issues. The fact that I put it together may kick me in the ass when I go to power them up, but I'll cross that bridge when I get there.





EDIT: Trying to get a UBL so I can consolidate this whole thing, would be a small project, but man it would be nice.