Its hard to see in the pic but that entire setup is below the load floor. The stock cover actually still fits into place. One of the things I am most loving about this build is how completely stealth it is. There is ZERO indication that anything isn't OEM until you start looking REAL closely at things.
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Focal, Mosconi, Illusion and Helix build
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When I installed the midbass’ in the doors I didn’t think to measure how far behind the door panel they sit. They’re back almost 2”. Since the general consensus was the closer the better and with a combination of adapters from MTI for 8” drivers and 6.5-8” aluminum adapters from EBay I’ll push them out 1.5” closer. I have to leave some space for excursion. I’m also replacing the OCF Stinger Fast Rings that seal the driver to the door with CCF rings from Sound Skins.
The MTI 8” adapter and beveled aluminum adapter will open up behind the driver so I’m not sticking it in a tunnel and choking it off. The aluminum rings will be deadened with 1lb of stick on wheel weights plus some CLD so they don’t ring or make any noises I don’t want made. Will it make a difference? I dunno…but I’ll sleep better.
The MTI 8” adapter and beveled aluminum adapter will open up behind the driver so I’m not sticking it in a tunnel and choking it off. The aluminum rings will be deadened with 1lb of stick on wheel weights plus some CLD so they don’t ring or make any noises I don’t want made. Will it make a difference? I dunno…but I’ll sleep better.
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Well…didn’t go exactly as planned. Got one side together with the aluminum adapter and it was too close to the inner door for my comfort…so I stacked both adapters and moved it out an inch instead which is fine because I was off in my original measurement anyway. It’s still in about the same place I thought it would be.
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Had a nice afternoon swapping things out. One thing that surprised me was no gaskets supplied with the Utopia stuff…for the price that seems trivial to leave out. Luckily I had plenty of thin CCF to cut my own. The midbass’ are mounted on MTI adapters and they cut me some smaller mounting plates for the midranges that I trimmed down as needed. I also used SoundSkins CCF speaker rings on the midbass’ and cut my own from 1/4” CCF for the midranges. I used more wheel weights to add mass to the midrange baffle and some CLD over that to make sure they stay put.
Tried to get some pics with a flashlight but it didn’t cooperate very well.
Tried to get some pics with a flashlight but it didn’t cooperate very well.
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