Mid-bass driver grille fitted up

Post 483198 by I want a T5 on 2012-04-08 11:55:10

Ducking in and out of the rain this morning, I managed to form and shape the door pocket mod to take the speaker grille. Quite pleased with it to be honest! The vinyl I scrounged from a Polish office chair factory I visited in January is a pretty good match texture wise but slightly darker. The fact that its low down on the door means it does't show too much. Nice and stretchy so formed around the curves really well. You can see where I need to cut away the plastic of the door card to give me a clear circular hole to clear the path for the speaker; I'll do that when the damn rain stops! Now the fun starts with the making of the actual speaker mounting to the inner door skin. Probably going to be a back plate mounted to the door with an mdf ring suspended on dowels in the correct position. Then an old tee shirt stretched over and stiffened with acrylic resin prior to fibre glass reinforcing. Just need the rain to stop now!

Post 483200 by M-R-P on 2012-04-08 12:02:06

Nice ;) keep up the good work mate ;)

Post 483201 by V70 Graham on 2012-04-08 12:02:40

Very neat looking job, more pics when complete please :D

Post 483970 by Peanut1 on 2012-04-09 19:38:34

Have you been moaned at yet for using the dining room table?? im down your way tomorrow! Kettle on!!!

Post 483977 by M-R-P on 2012-04-09 19:45:21

Dinner table? Wait till you use the 500 quid dishwasher to clean engine parts lol. I still get earache for that one :D

Post 484259 by I want a T5 on 2012-04-10 07:05:36

[quote=Peanut1;483970]Have you been moaned at yet for using the dining room table?? im down your way tomorrow! Kettle on!!![/quote] My missus never moans at me for doing car stuff inside...... Although she did draw the line at me using the router in doors and fibre glassing was also met with a big NO!

Post 484261 by I want a T5 on 2012-04-10 07:10:09

[quote=martinrpeachey;483977]Dinner table? Wait till you use the 500 quid dishwasher to clean engine parts lol. I still get earache for that one :D[/quote] That thought has crossed my mind many times......last time was when I was refurbing a set of callipers off my old 200sx..... I dont think there's anything wrong with it so long as all the loose crap is off of whatever you are cleaning...... I don't think I would though.........unless she was out for long enough to run the cycle a few times to get rid of the smell of Gunk!

Post 484264 by M-R-P on 2012-04-10 08:11:30

[quote=I want a T5;484261]That thought has crossed my mind many times......last time was when I was refurbing a set of callipers off my old 200sx..... I dont think there's anything wrong with it so long as all the loose crap is off of whatever you are cleaning...... I don't think I would though.........unless she was out for long enough to run the cycle a few times to get rid of the smell of Gunk![/quote] I think that's where I went wrong last time...