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[blueturbomini]

I have managed to get some more done while i am waiting to get my tweeter mounts covered. As my chosen front end speakers are a non standard size, all my efforts to get some suitable grilles have failed. This leaves me in the position of having to make my own.

Well i have had a go and to my surprise they are not to shabbay at that.



Get these wrapped in either black or blue alcantara



then get some black paint on these grilles



and black paint on these, get the whole lot fitted back into the car and then it should not be long before i can hear the fruits of my labour

[Skortchio]

Those, are, AWESOME!

[Brams96]

Looking good Les! Did you make the mdf ring with a router?

[blueturbomini]

Looking good Les! Did you make the mdf ring with a router?

Cheated and had them made mate

[freshairmini]

Whoa, that's a mess! Is that all standard wiring? Not looking forward to the day when I've got to take mine out!

Good luck with that

Unfortuneatly no, its also central locking, electric windows, all the regular dash switches moved to the centre consul, plus i have fitted the whole loom inside the car, so i have no wires running around the engine bay, it's all in the front wings. Have you finished your build, as your thread has just seemed to stop?

Ha, no where near finished. I decided to put it on hold until Ive sorted the rust. Then I want to do something similar to yours quality wise. Gonna try and attempt at creating the Wood and picket margrave dash. Should look good if I get it right.

[blueturbomini]

[travellering]

Nice!!!!!! I have no experience yet with any install on this level, but a photo tip is one of the cheapy halogen work lights on a tripod stand will work in place of a fancy external flash. You can get your light source off to the side so no mystery scratch and swirl reflections like a straight on flash..

[shivi_d92]

thumbs up on the wire shielding! something ive been planning to do for a long time when i finally get around to the interior side of my project

[blueturbomini]

Well at last my build is finished (this is the very last time i'm doing this) well hopefully. The rear subs stayed the same but the roll cage got powder coated white



The infinity's have gone to be replaced with Absolute 2.3, with my home made grilles



And lastly my modified factory dash in all it's glory



Then realised i needed grilles on my tweeters



All thats hopefully left to do is some final tuning, and i should be set for a very sweet sounding drive around.

[Ruckus]

Questions:

What the red bit around the dash?
Grey trim not black or blue?

And who said you need grills? EMMA?

Otherwise I can't wait to get my hands on it.

Edited by Ruckus, 07 April 2013 - 08:15 PM.

[blueturbomini]

The red trim is a led light
could not get black or blue to match for love nor money
spot on with the grilles
ready when you are mate, or as they say in all the good movies "your place or mine"

[screech]

Looks awesome! Makes me want to put all mine back in!

With the grills, are they not meant to be a bit more closed off? So the cones can't be 'poked'?

Ohh, and is this blue enough? http://www.ebay.co.u...=item5ad100508c


Cheers

Edited by screech, 07 April 2013 - 09:41 PM.

[Ruckus]

Looks awesome! Makes me want to put all mine back in!

With the grills, are they not meant to be a bit more closed off? So the cones can't be 'poked'?

Ohh, and is this blue enough? http://www.ebay.co.u...=item5ad100508c


Cheers

Black or blue trim material not EL string...

[blueturbomini]

Decided i dont like the tweeter mounts or the bars across them

 

so went from this

 

 

 

to this

 

 

i think it looks so much cleaner. Now just need to make some new mounts for them.

[AusMiniRock]

Looks fantastic mate, really well done. Just curious as everyone here seems pretty on the ball with the finer points of audio engineering. Is there a maximum size of a solid grille I can put on a sub that won't hinder the quality? I notice you use mesh but I am hoping to have a piece of cut stainless steel in the shape of a logo and mount across the sub as a grille. Sorry for high jacking the thread a tad. Shame there aren't many good sound off's here in Oz.