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by Tim » Thu Feb 28, 2008 10:15 am

The CompVR's will definitely give it that bump you are after. I've used kicker for a lot of years and I have always been satisfied with them.

Tim

by aaron_sk » Wed Feb 27, 2008 7:37 pm

Yeah, I'm really leaning that way after tonight. I fired up my temporary setup (Polk 4x6's, MA Audio 6x9's) and it's definetly missing a good bottom-end punch.

by Tim » Wed Feb 27, 2008 3:07 pm

I really think you will be happy with the kickers. The CompVR's are a pretty decent line of speakers.

IMHO.

Tim

by aaron_sk » Tue Feb 26, 2008 8:43 pm

IMHO I wouldn't mess with them. Mine are fairly disintegrated, and the fiber-ish stuff they're made out of is nasty and messy.

If you don't want to go with the spray foam stuff, you might see if you can make a really small flat box.

by Purple RS » Tue Feb 26, 2008 8:21 pm

Those enclosures were a dime a dozen in the junkyard the other day. Just looked out of curiosity, but I didn't want to tear into the sail panels of those cars to find out what shape they were in though.

by aaron_sk » Tue Feb 26, 2008 7:36 pm

So that's what they're supposed to look like. Mine had the backs chopped out by some lazy install tech long before I bought the car.

As for my own install, I'm seriously thinking about the Kickers that smoker recommended. Kicker claims a 4 5/16" mounting depth for the CompVR 8's. Right now I have MA Audio 6x9's in the back. They're 4 inches deep and when mounted in the stock position they come within about 1/4 inch of the metal. If I mounted onto a sheet of MDF it should make up for the extra half inch I'll need.

Plus I can get them new off of eBay for $30 apiece. :happy055:

by Purple RS » Mon Feb 25, 2008 8:28 pm

These are the soft fiberglass "baffles" I have in my sail panels. I want to try to use these to form a solid enclosure. I'm experimenting now by soaking them with resin to harden them up so they can be sealed. The biggest problem I have at the moment is the width of the opening, it's just a tad over 6" and those pioneers require a tad over 7".

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Even if I use something other than the Pioneers, the approach is the same. I'm thinking to use an MDF panel over the opening. Then I'll widen the enclosure and the corresponding hole in the sail panel to accommodate the larger speaker, then mount the MDF to the sail panel.

by Tim » Fri Feb 22, 2008 8:19 pm

Cool, good deal. Are you still thinking of going with the Pioneers??
Have fun,
Tim

by Purple RS » Fri Feb 22, 2008 8:15 pm

Tim wrote:Cool, good deal. Are you still thinking of going with the Pioneers??
Have fun,
Tim
That would be a question for Aaron since he brought this one up. I was actually thinking of the new Memphis 10" shallow mount subs until I opened up the sail panel and looked at what I had. Seems the space is a bit small for the 10" (it is doable) without more work than I want to do. An 8" sub will still require a little fabrication and the air space from the glassed up baffle might be just about right for the Pioneers. Seems the right ones for the application, but I'm still shopping....

by Purple RS » Fri Feb 22, 2008 8:11 pm

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