Part II, The ones in the wings Hamid and I reach Sprocket around noon and the owner immediately recognises me as the madcap who bought a Fiat from Mumbai and bought bulbs from him. He begins to remind me about my promised visit for ICEing the GTX, stops mid-sentence, looks at me, looks at Hamid, remembers that I am on TBHP and things click in place in his mind. He is a very sweet chap and discusses the pros and cons of the various speakers and insists that I try fit the 6 1/2" components in the GTX. Hamid tries and shows me the result - it fits fine with spacers but the ring in the map pocket cum speaker cover will have to be cut and the speaker will not be totally inside the ring therefore some of the sound will be lost. The 5 1/4" on the other hand will be totally inside the ring so all of the sound will be chanelled into the cabin. I therefore decide to go with the 2 way Polk Db 5 1/4" compos for the front. Two boxes are brought out and placed at a vantage point much like the 'trailers' for the lead artistes at an outdoor movie shoot.
These are the boxes:
Power wires, System (RCA) leads, Speaker wire and damping quickly materialise and Hamid and a friend of his get to work on putting the whole lot in.
Is it Wurth it?
Well it looks cool .. .
If it bounces some sound waves toward the cabin, prevents the skin from resonating and the speaker from moving the metal part it is mounted on, I would be satisfied. (The metal on the outside of the door of the un-damped Swift next to my GTX was moving as much as the speaker cone was!)
This is the stock location for the tweeter domes:
Once opened up - showing the RVM control cables and the hole for the wires.
The all important Crossover being wired and set to '0' (this one has a choice of -3, 0 and +3) before being tucked into the door and fixed with some double gummed tape.
We had to use some spacer rings even for the 5 1/4" as the rear frame (flange) of the speaker was a wee too wide and deep and prevented the speaker from perfectly sitting in the space between the metal frame.
Once one door was prepared and they had got a fix of what was required, Hamid and his pal decided to abscond! To be fair to them it was about 3.00 p.m.
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Thanks Frank for the encouragment and for the tip about max no. of pics in a post. 30 pics however and this thing will become like 'War & Peace' or 'Gone with the wind'.
Cheers, |