Properly Install Door Speakers

The doors are far the most common place to mount your aftermarket parts brand new speakers, since the manufacturer might give you a place to put them. If you want to get the most from your investment, but you can not just swap out your factory cheapies and call it day. There are tricks you can do for your door to make a big difference in sound quality of your system.

In my Tundra, I want to midbass big impact in advance, so I decided to install a dual-6 ½ “drivers on the factory door locations with plenty of power to drive them. The techniques shown here can be used to greatly improve the sound from each speaker upgrade , even a simple swap from the factory to coaxials aftermarket speakers. The key is to prevent air leakage and vibrate at the door, making the door acting like a cage. You’ll be surprised how much better overall sound quality you will after this process is complete.

Here is the stock Toyota Tundra door panel. This particular truck has a factory JBL speaker systems, with the midbass and midrange in the door with the tweeters in the upper corner

Door panel removed, revealing the speaker and vapor barrier underneath. Panel doors are easy to remove simply by taking the three screws and comments from the clips.

Here’s the factory speaker arrangement, with the 7” midbass and 3” midrange. I decided to go for maximum midbass impact up front, so I went with dual 6 ½” Alpine Type X drivers in each door. To fit these, it was necessary to cut some metal out of the door, so the area was marked with a Sharpie. The metal was cut using an air saw with a metal blade. Be careful to check behind the area you are cutting, since window gears and motors are very close to this area.

The area around the speaker hole is now ready to be pasted into the application of fiberglass. Use a good tape 3M Super 233 + great for fiberglass applications.

Aluminum foil is now spray glued over the tape to provide a barrier layer for the fiberglass. Use Super 77 spray glue by 3M, as it works well without providing an overly strong hold. The mounting rings that come with the Alpine Type X speakers can be used to make a custom mount for the door. Here, we’ve taken two of them and attached them with super glue. The edges are also ground down to promote good fiberglass adhesion. Now the dual mounting ring is attached to the foil on the door. Super glue works great for this; use small wood or plastic sticks to hold the rings in the desired location.

Fiberglass mat can now be applied to the edges between the rings and the door panel, creating a form-fitting piece. Four layers of thin ½ ounce mat is plenty for this application.

Once the fiberglass is dry, the panel can be removed from the door. Notice how the foil comes off with the fiberglass piece—this is why it’s important not to use an overly strong glue to hold the foil in place.

Next the panel is cut to shape with an air saw, and the edges are ground flush using an angle die grinder.

The piece is now test-fitted on the door. Notice how the piece fits perfectly to the door skin, making a tight seal that will ensure great midbass response.The panel is painted black, bolted in place, and the speakers are screwed in. Make sure to seal the panel to the door with gasket foam, and do the same thing with the speakers.

Cascade Audio damping material is applied to the back of the outer door skin behind the speakers to prevent ringing and rattling. More damping material is applied to the inner door skin. We’ve removed the factory plastic vapor barrier, replacing it with this one made of damping material.

A heat gun is used to warm up the damping material. Adding heat makes the material flexible, allowing it to conform to the door panel. In addition, the heat makes the stuff stick much better to the door skin.

Here’s the completed damping material on the door. Notice that all the holes and seams have been filled to make the door as airtight as possible. This will make the door act like an enclosure, providing much tighter midbass impact.The tweeter replacement is the easy part, as Toyota was kind enough to provide a metal bracket to mount the tweeter.The factory tweeter was unbolted, and the Alpine tweeter cup was bolted in its place.

Next, the Alpine tweeter was twist-locked into the cup, and the metal bracket was bolted back on the door. One nice little easy touch is to replace the JBL logo on the door grill with the Alpine one out of the Type X component set.

A custom project that looks the same at the end as it did at the beginning! That’s the beauty of this install—trick but stealthy. You won’t know it’s not stock until you crank up the volume control.

RECARO Child Safety Seats

RECARO’s ProSERIES is the newest addition to the popular line of car seat manufacturers based on the child seat RECARO’s proven race track sits mobile technology.

ProSERIES new lines including ProRIDE, which ProSPORT and ProBOOSTER every seat specially designed to provide comfort and safety of your child grows. Every seat is now available through national retailers.

“New RECARO’s ProSERIES chair is designed to not only provide maximum protection, but is most comfortable for the entire time the child is required to be in car seats,” said Jonathan Sieber, Director of Sales & Marketing for RECARO North America. “We have received a large amount of positive feedback from parents who appreciate not only the safety design ProSERIES ‘, but it looks great and overall ease of use. RECARO also able to achieve the capacity of utilizing 90 pounds of body weight in ProSPORT which is the highest available in its class.”

Combined, ProSERIES line can accommodate children from as low as 5 pounds all the way up to 120 pounds. ProRIDE new convertible seats allow parents to use the chair when their children must face the rear and then turn to the front as one of their little faces growing. This chair is designed for children 50-70 pounds and 50 inches tall or less. The ProSPORT RECARO is utilizing a combination booster car seat suitable for children weighing between 20 and “Best in Class” 90 pounds when used in utilizing mode and 30 120 pounds when used in booster mode. A child also must be less than 59 inches tall to use these ProSPORT. The ProBOOSTER RECARO for children 30-120 pounds and 37-61 inches high. This innovative seat 11 has a head restraint.

Assembled in the United States, ProSERIES is a high quality child restraint system that provides parents and children luxury and security they need for any trip. Parents will appreciate that every seat in ProSERIES includes innovative RECARO’s Side Impact Protection system specifically designed to protect any vulnerable areas of a child five in side impact collisions – head, neck, face, chest and pelvis.

RECARO developed and optimized side impact protection for seat racing cars in 1990 and then adapted their technology for child car seats set a new standard for child safety seats premiums. EPS energy absorbing foam and a proprietary design of structural RECARO’s joined to provide a safety seat, style and comfort once reserved only for cars and chairs the world’s most prestigious race.

Each seat cover features an extreme ProSERIES absorb crash energy technologies and hold a soft padding. The chair is evaluated in the company’s competency centers seating both in the United States and Europe and through independent bodies, including ADAC globally respected. RECARO recently celebrated the 100th anniversary and included as one of the “Brand of the Century” in 2009.

RECARO ProSERIES Features

o RECARO’s Side Impact Protection. Designed to protect each of the five regions of vulnerable children in side impact accidents including head, neck, face, chest and pelvis.
o Best in Class Heavy Harness. At 90 pounds ProSPORT has the highest weight capacity available for the five-point harness seat.
o (EPS) foam energy absorber. Expanded Polystyrene “EPS” energy absorbing foam collision forces through their respective seats for additional protection.
o QuickLift: Head of Control. Comfortable lift lever allows easy positioning restrictions ProSPORT head to properly fit your child.
o CoolMesh Air Ventilation. This unique material lets air pass through the key areas in every seat enhance ventilation and air flow.
o EasyAdjust: 5-Point Harness. RECARO’s use conform to the limitations of the head. No re-threading is needed to properly utilize the shoulder strap positions for children, suitable for everyday use.
QuickPull o: Adjusting Front Harness. Comfortably situated frontal harness adjuster to not take advantage of the complexity of the adjustment.
o EasyGuide: Belt Guide. Whether in the mode of each Booster Harness or belt guide is color coded so you can easily identify the correct belt path and position of both the LATCH strap or a vehicle seat belt.

CAR AUDIO

You will not be able to listen to a song if there is no Head of Unit, and of course it is very necessary. If you could hear the music iPod, or gadget mp3, atmosphere in the car would not survive if there is no such thing as a radio tape (head unit), for example, if you hear a song that again has a romantic approach, a song that is suitable for making an approach to a girl ,

. Head Unit

Tape,Radio,CD-DVD,TV,AUX (USB)2. CD CHANGER

Maybe it is almost outdated rada because most CD-Changer Head unit so that air can begin to equip the facility standard CD, and then going right where the black ribbon / tape ..? hehe, add more there that has made USB .. live copy a CD to insert an MP3 and then convert the flash, you can enter hundreds of songs to mp3 format 512MB flash, no CDs were scattered

2.POWER AMPLIFIER

Create a hooked / hobby, not satisfied the same device can be upgraded factory audi innate good let me add her voice, power amplifiers can be added according to your ear sensitivity, whose names are different people’s ears, you could say there good settings … settings .. but here is better all the edges must fit together you have ears .. “Why pay for expensive, if not better” hehe so easy about the drug trade slogans like mosquitoes. The following types of power amplifiers in the market, it could be there already a new type, but I think these have most up to date

• Monoblok
• 2 Channel
• 3 Channel
• 4 Channel
• 5 Channel
• 6 Channel

3.AUDIO CONTROL / PROCESSOR

When it comes to audio control / processor level’ve certainly not amateurs anymore .. not also one who has not satisfied the same ear hearing but solely for the purposes of innovation / audio contest. But still not haram in use for daily necessities so.

4.CROSS OVER

In accordance with his crossover, its function to filter / filter / bypass frequency2 who are not in want. The difference with POWER, if power was a tool to strengthen the force / power to the speakers themselves.

5.SPEAKER

Not going to run out if the speakers talking about issues, many are selling, many models, many types, just a lot of things, well now back again to the ear, where do you think you fit the same ear, quick buy before the miss.

• Coaxial Speker

Coaxial has the advantage of the tweeter and woofers that are mounted very close together coincide, hence the name coaxial (coinciding axes) that makes all the sounds coming from one spot.

• Speker Split ( Component )

A speaker is the speaker components that are suitable for optimal sound quality car audio. Usually a pair of tweeters and mid-bass drivers are matched with the crossover to limit the frequency range of each speaker must accurately reproduce. Component speaker drivers are physically separated so that the tweeter, which is very well directed, can be placed in an optimal position, usually on the dashboard facing the listener, while the mid-bass drivers greater can be placed where there is room, often at the bottom of the front door of the car. pairs of component speakers offered by all manufacturers of high-end audio.

6.Subwofer

Subwoofers consists of one or more woofers in a forest either strengthen or plastic loudspeaker enclosure, in one of various designs, including bass reflex (with port or a tube in the cage), unlimited baffle, horn loaded, and bandpass designs, each have their own strengths and deficiencies in efficiency, size, distortion, cost and power handling. Passive subwoofers have a subwoofer driver and enclosure and they are supported by an external amplifier. active subwoofer includes a built-in amplifier.

7.CAPACITOR BANK

Capacitor banks are widely used in the company-the company. Capacitor bank is used to improve the power factor. Normally around 0.85. under the load of electric power companies become larger. Why should it be installed capacitor bank? because of the excess cost of electricity charged to customers KVARH average cos if it is less than 0.85.

for the purposes of installing capacitor can also be avoided:

1. aka overload overload
2. voltage drop at the line ends
3. increase in flow / temperature on the cable thus reducing losses

8.CABLES / KABEL

9.FUSES / SEKRING