R32 custom kick panels for speakers?

[Guest scourge]

Hey guys, first post at this Skyline board, but I am a member at a few others. I own an R32 GTS-4 and I want to put speakers in the lower part of the door and I want to improve my front stage. In the USA, you can get prefabricated custom kick panels to fit your car. You just install your speakers, run the wires and then install the pods in your car on the floorboard. Its a real easy install.

But, my tiny island has no shop that can do custom work and I want kick panels for a 4 inch midrage and tweeter. I want to put a mid bass in the door. Anyone have custom kick panels in their R32 Skylines?

[BOoStEr]

I posted a similar thread here a few months ago and didn't get a reply. I've done a bit of checking by looking at speaker options and by removing the kick panels to see how much room is available. There is a lot more room around the pedals in american cars as they are left-hand drive so it's not as easy in right-hand drive cars. Because there is very little spare room behind the kickpanels I decided my best option was to use a 2.5"-3" dome midrange with a sealed back-chamber such as Dynaudio MD140-2s or Morel MR55s and a tweeter in the kick panels as they dont need any space behind them and dont need to sealed to avoid back-wave cancellation. These speakers are quite expensive but by the time you factor in the savings of a simpler installation they will pay for the difference in price themselves.

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I thought about Image Dynamics horns, but they cost a lot and would be exopensive to ship here to Japan. I'd prefer a more custom look with something in the kick panels.

[sniffy]

yea kick panels are a bit of a problem...all i would do is use the 6" factory mounts that are in the door(it looks stock but it works) and then for the sound stage quality prob...line the tweeter up with your head...i.e.on the reverse side of the mirrors, or, they can be neatly mounted it the door (by someone who knows a bit about cutting into doors)

its a bit of an effort but sounds great

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I also want new grill covers for the doors. I'd want them to have a Nakamichi emblem as I wanna go all Nakamichi in the car.

[sniffy]

well i guess you could do a "cut n paste" job on that...but again, you are going to need to know about that kinda thing to make it look decent...im sure it wont be to hard tho?