Gen 1 Brat sound system.

[Don_Quixpunch]

So I'm working on fabbing up the sound system for my 81 Brat. With the space limitations, I'm thinking the best way to add woofers is a custom built fiberglass box to fill in the space behind the seats.

 

The reason for this thread is I'm curious if anybody else would be interested in a copy of the enclosure. I'm going to have to build a mold and it's not a huge deal to build one that will last for a dozen layups rather than just one. But I would need to know that several people are interested before throwing extra money at it. My best guess is that copies will cost a couple hundred each, but don't hold me to a price until I've got the first one finished and know exactly what's involved.

 

I'm not looking for or offering a commitment just yet. Just want to see if at that price there's any interest.

[Ever Victorious]

Have you looked for slim-box sub enclosures? I'm fairly certain one of my local stores carries one that fits a 10" sub that will go behind the seats (at least in my Gen2).

 

FWIW, before I made my behind-the-console box for my 4" speakers, I was looking to find someone who would make a fiberglass mount to put them up on the B-pillars near the roof. Even something like that would have possibly freed enough space that I could have put a standard sized sub somewhere.

[KNOPPER]

Yes, i would be interested in what you came up with. I'm getting ready to do the same in my '81. Also curious what you were thinking for front speakers. I'm debating between 6 inch 3 ways in the doors, or get component speakers and put the mids in the doors and the tweets on the pillars...

[TheLoyale]

I found that the Pioneer 260w 4-Ways are pretty awesome, I have 4 in my wagon, good sound and not to expensive.

 

-Tom

[Don_Quixpunch]

@Ever Victorious. I have a small enclosure as you described with a vintage 8 inch Aria DVC woofer in it. But I want to go as large as possible, which means using the available space as efficiently as possible. The plan is to build the box, then find the volume and match a driver to the enclosure. The difficulty with having something custom made is that there's a lot of figuring out and mold making, so it's more expensive than most of us are interested in.

 

@Knopper. For my doors, I'm reusing the Kenwood dual mag components I had in my 90 Legacy. The car came with these funky adapter rings that angled the mids very nicely. I cut the stock speakers outta them, then welded a 14 gauge steel plate onto the front with a hole in the middle for the driver to fit into and then the bolts that hold the driver thread into the plate. And finally, I glued a couple of the cheesey plastic speaker tubs that stereo shops carry onto the back. A little Dynamat and some Permatex undercoating and it's very solid and quiet. I put my tweeters right in front of the door latch. I had to cut through some steel to give them room. But it's probably the best tweeter location in the car. I didn't feel good about the tweets fitting into the A pillars.