Billthe3's 951 Stereo Project
Page 4: rear speakers
| Look at how clean my rear windows are! Its almost like they aren't even there! (I pulled them out to remove the rear interior panels) |
| Still far too much stuff in the garage. I finally got fed up and pulled the seats to have more room to work in for the rear speakers, but I didn't have anywhere else to put them, soo... |
| ... the seats were relegated to roof duty. I would have put them behind the car, but my set of sport seats was already taking up that space. |
| The trunk of the bmw is holding even more crap. Good thing its so big. |
| Pictures of the stock rear speaker wires. |
| Gotta love having a car where the factory held down speaker wires with duct tape... |
| The rear speakers were in a hell of a lot better condition than the front ones. The foam gaskets even came off in one piece! Hurray! |
| Running the new speaker wire along the floor next to the old. I pulled the old ones out of the quarter panels and tucked it down along the floor so that it would still be there, just not in the way. I could have reused the factory wiring here, but I figured I'd run my own incase I wanted to do amps later. I would have also had to cut up the factory wiring harness behind the HU to connect the wires. |
| My rear speaker mounts for the 2 part component setup. |
| Cutting out the space needed for the 6" speakers. The later year model cars had this space already cut out, but since mine is an 86 I had to cut it myself. I managed to do most of the first hole with the jigsaw, but killed it in the process so I ended up having to do the cutoff wheel for the second hole. The cut is a lot cleaner because of it, but it made much more of a mess. |
| How I mounted the rear crossovers for the component sets. There was a ton of space in the rear quarter panels, but I couldn't figure out how exactly stick the crossover in there. Then this idea hit me, and it works spectacularly well. |
| Sticking the speakers in place. Connect all the wires, then slide the crossover in first, then line up screw holes and mount. |
| The mounted speakers. Of course when I put the interior panel back in place with the speakers mounted I found out that the magnet on the 6" speaker was sticking out too far for the interior panels to be put in place, so I had to take the speakers back out again. |
| I had used 1/2" mdf board to mount the speakers on, so I used a router to take 1/4" of an inch off where the 6" speakers mounted. That fixed the clearance issue with the interior panels. |
| The speakers are mounted, part 2. |
| Then I was finally able to reassemble the interior. This is how I ended up doing the switches up front with the windows. The fader dial isn't hooked up, I just didn't feel like gluing the window switch in place there so I just left the dial in. |
| And the rest of the interior. Hurray for stock looking stereo! |
