BERYLLIUM BMW 323ci.

[tdc3187]

Everytime I see you post I get all giddy inside, haha.

Love seeing the things you do on this ride!

I couldn't sum it up any better!!

[robola 46]

I worked on the alu rings with the uppermill

This is a picture of the 16cm Focal in the doors. You can see there’s a little notch where the ring is tightend with the inbus screw.

The rest of the Focal speakers also have this, so I thought it would be not more than normal I did the same thing with the new rings for the JL Audio’s.

I realized that this wouldn’t be an easy task, but I thought it through quite well HOW I’d get to work.

First I took a thick MDF plate of 5cm thick, so I had a good foundation.

Then I milled out the alu ring, so it was a bit lower than the MDF.

The little green boards L and R hold the mill, so it can’t get nowhere.

The lower little plank serve as a STOP, so I can’t go wrong there.

Between the boards I always do some tallow (from a candle) so it glides nicely.

The 2 alu plates on the inside of the ring serve as a security for holding the ring as it’s place. Safety first!

Here you see what I had to have.

So, these are the rings for now

Here you can also see that I’m going to have a nice abrading job to do

Here you can see the result

Do not underestimate this job. I worked on these 16 little notches for almost a whole day. Offcourse most of the time went in the preparation, but still…

Total picture

The rings will stay like this for now. Once I’m starting the works on the floorpods, these will come into my hands for another 100 times, so the finishing of these things will be at the end.

O yeah, here a pic with on the background a weird looking thing of what I made for my new hobby.

Cool ain’t it?

[armykyle1]

those rings are sexy as hell man! Your work continually amazes me

[94retta(219)]

Amazing isnt even good enough to decribe this

[HustleMan]

Clean bro...Nice attention to detail

[tdc3187]

You've made a rear disk for a bicycle. I thought the zipp disks were sexy. Is it just an insert or a full disk? What kind of specialized cycle?

[robola 46]

Here the first pictures of the floor-pods in the car.

Like you can see, I let myself go with the Stanley-knife. I’m guessing most of you see me as an idiot now, but this was necessary for what I’m planning. The crazier , the better here in Belgium

When I laid the cables, I saw there was a lot of room underneath the carpet.

Where you see the red triangle, there was a piece of Styrofoam from about 30x20x7 cm, and then I’m not counting the thickness of the carpet as well.

The volume the JL needs is 8L, and I’m convinced I’ll get this much here.

The space from the top of the carpet to the bottom is about 9cm

I placed the speaker in as a trial, and you can see there’s plenty of space.

The speaker is placed good, and once I sat in the car, I’ve seen it doesn’t bother me in any way.

To make it a bit easier, I made a small water-leveler.

I place this on the screws of the grill, so I don’t need to measure of L and R are equal.

In the meanwhile I got my some polyester in stock, cause it goes smoothly

OOOOOOOOOO yea, I’m guessing these will be the last floordpods I’ll ever make, so….be prepared cause I’m gonna give it all I’ve got

This will be KILLERPODS I’m afraid

[tdc3187]

So sick!

[robola 46]

After doing some research, I've seen that there's a double bottom in the interior's bottom, just in the place where the speaker will come. I drew the magnet of the woofer with a marker. Then I drilled a couple (4) 2mm holes, and I could feel with an iron little bar if that space was empty. When I was sure there was room to make a hole, I did the following:

the meaning was not to make the hole too big, if there was room for the woofers magnet, I was satisfied.

I took some bowls and cups from the kitchen, and compared it to the magnet.

I pinned it down with some screws, and polished it sometimes.

This would be my mold, simple!

Then I layed over 6 layers of fiberglass cloth, and left it to dry.

Once this was dry, I popped it of the glass with a screwdriver like nothing,

Here you see the polyester bowl in the Floor.

By doing this I can place the speaker 5cm more to the front

You can also see it’s all taped.

This wasn’t more then a couple of hours doing some polyester works

You can also see that the bowl flows pretty far into the interior

Once it was all dry, I pulled out the entire piece, grinded it properly, and placed it all in the car afterwards.

Now it’s all in one piece, and ultra strong

[SQMonte]

Speechless!!!