Rear Door Panel Fabrication
Each of the rear door panels will house 16 Soundstream SST5.2 speakers. We decided to make them fairly basic out of 3/4" MDF to match the rest of the rear cargo area of the interior.
All the pieces cut to size for both door panels.
Starting to rough assemble the door panels.
Rough assembly complete of both door panels.
Rounding over all the front edges to get everything smooth.
There will be 10 wire looms going into each door panel to accept all the wires that the 16 Soundstream SST5.2's will need.
Holes located & drilled.
All the screw holes will be filled in so they will not be seen when the door panels are wrapped in suede.
Filling in the holes.
We used the rings that were cut before to layout where we wanted the speakers to be located on the panel. This gave us a better idea of how they would look once they are mounted.
Once the location was established, the rings were traced & the inside diameter was rough cut.
The rings were attached to the panel and the openings were smoothed out with a flush trim bit in the router.
Perfect fit!
The same process will be repeated on the other door panel.
We will be adding supports in the center section of the door panels for extra strength. They will be made from 3/4" aluminum tube with 1/2-13" grade 8 bolts and t-nuts.
Drilled and countersunk holes for the heads of the 1/2-13" bolts.
1/2-13" t-nuts installed.
3/4" aluminum tube supports.
Support tubes installed.
The countersunk holes for the bolt heads were filled & smoothed out just like the rest of the screw heads.
The door panel fabrication is complete. They will be covered with suede in the future.
Page 1...Overview
Page 2...Floor Rebuild & Interior
Page 3...Roof Raising & Rebuild & Wall Rebuild
Page 4...Bumper Rebuild
Page 5...Rear Fenderwell Rebuild
Page 6...Door Rebuild
Page 7...Exhaust & Fuel Tank Rebuild
Page 8...Engine & Air Conditioning System Rebuild
Page 9...Stereo System Equipment
Page 10...Stereo System Install: Ring/Plug Fabrication
Page 11...Stereo System Install: Subwoofer Enclosures
Page 12...Stereo System Install: Fiberglass SST4.0 Window Speaker Enclosure
Page 13...Stereo System Install: Fiberglass Dashboard
Page 14...Stereo System Install: Fiberglass 2nd Row Center Console
Page 15...Stereo System Install: Fiberglass Front Door Panels/SST6.9 Speaker Enclosures
Page 16...Stereo System Install: Fiberglass Front Row Center Console
Page 17...Stereo System Install: Capacitor & Distrubution Racks
Page 18...Stereo System Install: Amp Racks
Page 19...Stereo System Install: Alternator Installation
Page 20...Stereo System Install: Battery Box Fabrication
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