Charonblk07's JL Audio build

[charonblk07]

The 730N RHR arrived in good shape and I've got a few adapter harnesses on the way to get it to mate up to the '09 so that project is on hold waiting on parts.

I played around with the mechanical side of the build last week and this week is working on the audio side again. I got the door panels taped up and installed, mounted the door pods and then fiberglassed the edges so I can cover up any gaps between the two panels. Once the fiberglass is cured I'll be going over it with some body filler to smooth out the transitions then it'll be ready for wrapping once my vinyl gets here

All taped up




'Glassed in

 

[BradKnob]

Cmon u tease!!!! 2 agonizing weeks and we get 3 pics?




Lol, i kid... cant wait to see how this turns out. Any idea how much those pods weigh?

 

[charonblk07]

Cmon u tease!!!! 2 agonizing weeks and we get 3 pics?




Lol, i kid... cant wait to see how this turns out. Any idea how much those pods weigh?

Pods weigh about 30lb each right now.

 

[BradKnob]

Solid! That ought to take care of the plastic door card problems

 

[Etroze86]

That's awesome can't wait to see it done.

 

[charonblk07]

Aside from wrapping the door pods with vinyl they are now complete, all the gaps are fiberglassed and filled/smoothed. Tomorrow will be pulling the interior and sound deadening the floor, firewall, and doors. I'm also going to be laying down a layer of MLV with a CCF backing so the interior should be good and quiet after this.

 

[BradKnob]

Nice man.

I see the bottom layer of the pod is bolted to the door itself. How are the rest of the layers attached? Just by the 2 bolts that are near the speaker holes?

 

[Etroze86]

DAT GAP!!!!! looks damn good.

 

[charonblk07]

Nice man.

I see the bottom layer of the pod is bolted to the door itself. How are the rest of the layers attached? Just by the 2 bolts that are near the speaker holes?

Bottom layer is bolted directly into the door using the factory holes for the plastic door card. The main panel is bolted to that panel with 3 bolts, the 2 you see and there's one more in the sail section that has a plug over it for now that will have a removable beauty cover once everything's wrapped so I can still access it if I ever need to remove the door panel.

 

[charonblk07]

DAT GAP!!!!! looks damn good.

Will be even smaller once I wrap it too

 

[charonblk07]

The body is now fully covered with vibrations dampening material... well, except the roof skin, but I have enough to do that for the time that I eventually pull the headliner.

I used Second Skin's Damplifier Pro CLD tiles and covered that with their Luxury Liner Pro MLV that comes with a CCF layer attached. I did the back wall, under seat storage, floor, and all 4 doors with an extra layer over the firewall. It's nice and solid now.

Made sure to get a lot of the inner door cards as well





Some butyl rope between the door card and the door itself for added dampening



A little expanding foam in those pesky places you can't reach, like upper door pillars, rear C-pillars, the front seat arch, used 4 of the big cans everywhere!



Gotta get the inside of the door skins as well



A little MLV love in the doors as well, just did this to the fronts as they're the ones that will have the big speakers in them.



And lastly, gotta do the 'resonance' test on the doors. I was impressed by how much difference it made, hell, there was a service truck in the parking stall next to me who was curious wth I was doing, showed him the difference between the dampened door and the one I hadn't touched yet... needless to say he was blown away by the difference. The video doesn't get all the resonance because of the crappy mic on the phone, but it does good enough.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wQqFaRFSEc&feature=youtu.be

 

[Etroze86]

That's a good bit of difference

 

[Big Boi]

How does the MLV attach?

 

[BradKnob]

Nice and solid. My doors like a vault when I shut it. I'm sure urs with the 30 lb pods is like a tank! Awesome

Big boi, I used zip ties and plastic panel clips from lowes.

 

[charonblk07]

How does the MLV attach?

Mine has both the closed cell foam and MLV as one and it's attached to the panel using spray contact cement (high quality spray glue); it weighs a lot more than normal MLV but has better acoustic properties.

Nice and solid. My doors like a vault when I shut it. I'm sure urs with the 30 lb pods is like a tank! Awesome

Big boi, I used zip ties and plastic panel clips from lowes.

Before mine closed with a 'bang' and now it closes with a 'thud' which really says something about the vibration dampener and all the added weight of the door, so I'm very happy with it.

 

[charonblk07]

Back from my shift at work and ready to rock. Got started early to give me time to correct any mistakes but after a few practice runs on some scrap I went to town on the panel inserts. The scrap was just practice to set the air nailer's depth and how I could staple the 1/2" mdf with 1/2" crown staples (smallest 18ga air staple available), overall I'm happy with how they turned out.

Here's that snakeskin vinyl patter I was so excited about finding


Added a chamfer to the inside of the speaker ring


Rabbeted the backside of the panel to give a good surface to staple into... notice how smooth and even it is... Brad?


A little spray glue... and a view of how small my balcony and workspace is


The outside wrapped, stapled, and trimmed; here's the fingers that allow me to make a clean inner curve


Fingers trimmed


Finished insert




Tomorrow it's supposed to rain so I'm going to tackle the door panels with the snowmobile seat vinyl and maybe pull the interior again so I can get the 730n installed with the new harness that arrived.

 

[BradKnob]

Hey!! I can get it clean and straight, I just don't want to!


Lol, ok routing and wrapping is not my strong point. Anyway, that vinyl looks sick as hell! Very nice

Also, props on accomplishing anything on a balcony. I make a 500 SQ ft garage look like a tornado hit it, no way could I manage a balcony.

Looking forward to an update.

 

[Big Boi]

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[Etroze86]

I like the snake skin really gives it a look of its own for sure.

 

[charonblk07]

So this has screwed up my plans for the week:



I was sitting in the truck in the snow doing some wiring on the audio system, kinda getting fogged up and cold but made some awesome progress. Tidiness is a big issue for me... can you tell?



Driver's side door is wired and complete. Ran the 3 cables into the door by drilling a hole into the cable route and through the available grommet in the truck side.





All wiring is properly labeled on both ends thanks to me 'borrowing' the cable printer from work for an hour.