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6 minutes ago, Arthur79 said:

Here are a couple of pics of the box, it tickled my nostalgia bone for sure!

 

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I do like the look of it behind that plexiglass. 

But when it comes to plexiglass, Steve's Escalade box, and the truck Bobby gately built for, I think sinister, with the plexiglass top and port, killed it! 

I know, apples to oranges 

2011 Chevy Silverado under construction

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1 hour ago, Dafaseles said:

I just hope mine look halfway decent and don't sound like shit lol

Do your best and as long as u like it fuck everyone else 

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Pioneer 6.5 and 6×9's

Knukoncept Krystal kable rca's

0 ga knukoncept kolossus wire 

Big 3 same wire ^ 1 run 

8g karma ss speaker wire

Sundown sia 3500d at 1ohm

2 Sundown U series 12's

Duralast platinum agm H7 (Main)

Xs power d3400

Trying to find a ho alt

 

 

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My cousin let me borough his grinder and cutting wheel, so I was able to clean up the corners on my speaker grills20210925_171138.thumb.jpg.c32864f2df6345dad3d14d68f770b09d.jpg20210925_171145.thumb.jpg.9715d48878b0d67b93de0f518ca91681.jpgthey still look pretty rough, but I think it'll look a lot better once I paint them and actually round them around the ring itself. Painting the baffle, ring, and grill all gloss black I think will guide a lot there's a couple spots where I wish I could have a do over, but it's what I have to live with. 

on a side note, anyone, now or in the future, looking at this thinking it's a good way to get this done.... think again! I wish I would have just taken the time to build a box, shape the templates, and drove my truck smooth on top of them, bending the speaker grill in place. Pounding the steel over and over again with a hammer, cutting the steel, pounding, cutting, then one last round of pounding.... yeah, I'm beat! So, take my advice, watch the videos and do it the right way. 

2011 Chevy Silverado under construction

My build log here. Check it out! 

 

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5 hours ago, Dafaseles said:

My cousin let me borough his grinder and cutting wheel, so I was able to clean up the corners on my speaker grills20210925_171138.thumb.jpg.c32864f2df6345dad3d14d68f770b09d.jpg20210925_171145.thumb.jpg.9715d48878b0d67b93de0f518ca91681.jpgthey still look pretty rough, but I think it'll look a lot better once I paint them and actually round them around the ring itself. Painting the baffle, ring, and grill all gloss black I think will guide a lot there's a couple spots where I wish I could have a do over, but it's what I have to live with. 

on a side note, anyone, now or in the future, looking at this thinking it's a good way to get this done.... think again! I wish I would have just taken the time to build a box, shape the templates, and drove my truck smooth on top of them, bending the speaker grill in place. Pounding the steel over and over again with a hammer, cutting the steel, pounding, cutting, then one last round of pounding.... yeah, I'm beat! So, take my advice, watch the videos and do it the right way. 

It's looking pretty good, it's going to be transformational when you get them formed onto the rings!

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So, today, my cousin came over with a chop saw and we framed out the 8" speakers in the doors20211009_201953.thumb.jpg.2d65863c58e355dfa28c74555c860f7c.jpgwe where moving pretty well (glue accelerator is amazing!) But we ran into a major roadblock. The way I originally wanted to do the tweeters isn't going to work. There's just not enough space. I might even have to scrap the speaker grills for the 8's as well. The 8's don't need to be protected. I just would really rather them be behind grills. The tweeters on the other hand 100% have to be protected. 20210626_180036.thumb.jpg.ff9a9de54e3ab62c164d9e06c81555f8.jpgThey're not regular car audio tweeters. So I have to protect it from accidents. We think we have a good plan. The speaker grill won't be removable, but it is what it is. 

Another setback is that I really wanted to be able to open my glove box with the door closed. I will not be able to unfortunately. All this would have worked and been 1 million times easier if I just had gone with 6.5"s instead of 8's. Too late now. Just have to make it work

Also, mounted my new Mechman alternator. 20211009_112628.thumb.jpg.7b45bfe79fc33edcb55bb5731d1649a5.jpg20211009_112618.thumb.jpg.6fd607bb412ad3377c6168e8ed8ad80b.jpgI didn't get any pictures of it mounted because I didn't finish the wiring. It's a mess. Once I finish, I'll take some pictures. 

2011 Chevy Silverado under construction

My build log here. Check it out! 

 

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6 minutes ago, Dafaseles said:

So, today, my cousin came over with a chop saw and we framed out the 8" speakers in the doors20211009_201953.thumb.jpg.2d65863c58e355dfa28c74555c860f7c.jpgwe where moving pretty well (glue accelerator is amazing!) But we ran into a major roadblock. The way I originally wanted to do the tweeters isn't going to work. There's just not enough space. I might even have to scrap the speaker grills for the 8's as well. The 8's don't need to be protected. I just would really rather them be behind grills. The tweeters on the other hand 100% have to be protected. 20210626_180036.thumb.jpg.ff9a9de54e3ab62c164d9e06c81555f8.jpgThey're not regular car audio tweeters. So I have to protect it from accidents. We think we have a good plan. The speaker grill won't be removable, but it is what it is. 

Another setback is that I really wanted to be able to open my glove box with the door closed. I will not be able to unfortunately. All this would have worked and been 1 million times easier if I just had gone with 6.5"s instead of 8's. Too late now. Just have to make it work

Also, mounted my new Mechman alternator. 20211009_112628.thumb.jpg.7b45bfe79fc33edcb55bb5731d1649a5.jpg20211009_112618.thumb.jpg.6fd607bb412ad3377c6168e8ed8ad80b.jpgI didn't get any pictures of it mounted because I didn't finish the wiring. It's a mess. Once I finish, I'll take some pictures. 

Gotta do what u gotta do

06 Charger

Pioneer double din

Pioneer 6.5 and 6×9's

Knukoncept Krystal kable rca's

0 ga knukoncept kolossus wire 

Big 3 same wire ^ 1 run 

8g karma ss speaker wire

Sundown sia 3500d at 1ohm

2 Sundown U series 12's

Duralast platinum agm H7 (Main)

Xs power d3400

Trying to find a ho alt

 

 

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So, at this moment, doors 1 - my cousin and I 0. 

The way I was planning on doing my doors aren't going to work. The way I wanted to mount my grills isn't going to work. Period. I might be able to still use the baffles for the 8's, but I might not. I might have to make them a little bigger. The baffles for the tweeters, in the garbage. Too big, and u have to reverse mount the tweeters. No way around it. On top of that, the material I bought for the grills doesn't want to bend the way I need them to. The finished product would have looked terrible anyway. I'm going to start over.

So I bought some new material20211104_171749.thumb.jpg.1ddd0e8c293d4cc4a605a5d42738d061.jpgHUGE difference!

We concluded the old steel was 20 ga and it didn't want to bend. It kept creasing itself. The new material is 22 ga steel, but, as you can see in the picture, has way more open space than the old material.

Hopefully this new material works better. It'll damn sure look a lot better in my opinion. If this doesn't want to bend (holding it, it still feels quite stiff) the company I bought it from also has 24 ga. So we'll try it, and go from there. 

 

2011 Chevy Silverado under construction

My build log here. Check it out! 

 

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On to try #2

20211106_172336.thumb.jpg.7b5259c250de2b57ee5f89e58b19837b.jpgI figured I'd make this one just a single piece. There's a lot more space around the edges for the grill insert, so it's quite a bit taller, but I think it'll still work. I'm going to finish this up, fab up the insert, mount it on the door, then I'll be able to see what I can do to mount the tweeters

2011 Chevy Silverado under construction

My build log here. Check it out! 

 

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Nice how long till we see the finished product 

06 Charger

Pioneer double din

Pioneer 6.5 and 6×9's

Knukoncept Krystal kable rca's

0 ga knukoncept kolossus wire 

Big 3 same wire ^ 1 run 

8g karma ss speaker wire

Sundown sia 3500d at 1ohm

2 Sundown U series 12's

Duralast platinum agm H7 (Main)

Xs power d3400

Trying to find a ho alt

 

 

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