I do , but i'm now on the "down slope" ..
It should go fairly fast now .. except the new rear canopy .. this will take some time ..



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i am impressed beyond words, nice work.

 

I was just wondering. Are you making and selling those fiberglass door skins you made up?
Also great build and write.

 

thanks brutha'


yep http://www.toyotafiberglass.com .. and thanks .



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started working on the doors and inner trim panels .. got the inner of the doors cleaned up , and just about ready to prime .. also started on the trim panel

started with a flat sheet of fiberglass



marked it and trimed it to fit
I was going to have it 2 seperate pieces , like the stock panel , but my "mid speakers are to big ... there is a small "step" in the door panel anyway .. so cutting it and re glassing it will achieve a perfect fit with NO rattles .



starting the "mock up" for speaker location




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easy and cheep .. a little foam and some material ...

just wait !!

ohh and EDIT :
forgot to mention .. I considered using the original type board .. but I have seen so many clips "torn" out and mosture ruiened panels .. I figured this would last forever ..



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so .. waiting in the shop today (my day off) for a customer to show up for some pieces .. I decided to clean up the headlamp buckets and mounts ..

dissmantled them .. and did some sandblasting



and all the regular cleaning .. and such .. and some POR-15 on these as well .. also while I was at it , I polished up the headlamp rings and hardware






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You're not thinking of mounting those tweeters that low in the door, are you Corey?

 

absolutly .. as close to the mid as possable .. immaging is best when they are close together



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not much to add ...
got the headlamp bucket and pots back together



and the power went out ..
ended my day early



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I would disagree in this case. You're going to end up firing your highs into the side of your seat and you're going to block your right side with the passenger's seat.

There are a lot of installs that are placing them on the A pillars to bring the soundstage up, or even high in the door on the sailpanel.

http://www.crutchfield.com/Learn/lea...de.html?page=2

 

the tweeters in my case are "floatable/swivel" type .. they will be aimed with the mids .. up .. sound waves should flow nicly up off of the moon roof/headliner and bounce from there .. Rears will be pointed forward , and 2 10 subs in the rear .. hopefully sunken in the floor (not sure yet , spare tire issues? )
some hi end systems have adjustments for the mids and tweeters .. but my meesly KVT-514 does not .. I have to go with the recomended placement


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As longs as they are both the same distance from your ear (mid/tweet) they should be fine. And even having mid down low and tweet high on the door panel you wont hurt enough to make a difference. I actually prefer mine up high, ive noticed in cars with it down low I can move my legs around and make it sound different.

Up high there is nothing blocking the path to your ear. I would rather have both my mids and highs AT head level. But I have not yet found a car that its possible in. lol

 

Are you using chassi black on top of the POR 15. I have heard it said POR 15 will turn white if exposed to the UV light. Just asking because I have POR 15 drying on my bumper right now, but dont have any chassi black to go over it yet. I guess if it does start to turn white, I'll just clean it, 400 grit and some black over it.

Later

 

I think that all depends on the vehicle and obviously personal choice of music .. some vehicles are more sound proof then others , and outside noise will cause wave interferance .

this pic (from the site Rob posted) shows the mids and tweeters on the floor pointed up ... exactly what I'm going to do .




I'm also packing/lining the truck with "sound proofing" ... so the sound waves should flow nicely ..


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not yet ... none of the POR-15 I have done will be in direct UV contact .



I did a "test" on my rusty rear bumper on my /86 a couple of years back .. just to see what would happen ..

i think it has been 2 years now .. and it is just turning "flat" black now .. and there is 1 or 2 rust spots popping threw ..

thing is .. I did absolutly NO prep .. didnt even clean the dust/dirt off .. I just had some left overs .. so I used it


I love the stuff !!!!!


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Right on, I am going to leave the por on there and see what happens.

Looking forward to seeing what you come up with on the door pannels.

 

Ok first off... OMG!! Amazing... beautiful... spectacular... mind blowing... etc.
I love your build thread and its just down right the best i have read so far. When i get into a little more cash flow im going to hopefully start something on my own 4Runner .

I love your ideas, and liberal use of fiberglass! Now... just to get it done! lol Good luck, and i have subscribed for the last bit of the long haul.

 

thanks ..



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got a little work done on the door panels the last few days .. building the speaker enclosures has been the most time consuming , but should pay off in the long run .
Instead if just cutting a hold in the door and mounting the speaker on top , I wanted to "enclose" the speaker in it own "pod" so the sound coming out of it is just that much better .. so I was thinking on how to do this .. building custom moulds would take to long .. and i'm really wanting to press on !!!!

so I decided to start looking for a mould already build which I could utalize .. started pulling bowls out of the cupbords and measureing for size , looking at all kinds of things I could use , even went to wallmart and searched for aplicapble forms . I ended up going to the dollar store , and finding a perfect size plastic dog dish for $1.50 and a smaller cat dish for $1.25 .

started making my pieces ..
so I have 4 mids and tweeters going in .. 2 front 2 rear .
I needed 6 bigger pieces , and 4 smaller pieces ..



so after I figure the speaker placement .. started to fit it all together .. cut the door metal to fit the "pods" and glassed the rear portion into place





cut down and prepped the new set of moulded pieces to fit the speakers



and all mocked up





ready for some foam and leather to finish !!!

should rock


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