Transition Camaro

[MX145]

I refuse to pay photobucket so I've painfully downloaded all of my pics to my current computer and started putting stuff up on Flickr.

[MX145]

I drew up a center channel bracket in Autocad Fusion 360 to fit in the factory dash location. Its a 2 piece modular bracket with interlocking tabs. I'm able to mount a Dynaudio e110 tweeter or e430 mid. I also designed and printed an interference fit enclosure for the mid. I'll have to test to see which speaker combination I'll go with. I have more mid bass than I expected during initial testing so hopefully this works out.

CenterChannelTopv13_2018-Jan-30_03-51-30AM-000_CustomizedView8034973581 by Ryan Erickson, on Flickr
e430_CenterChannel_Enclosure v4 by Ryan Erickson, on Flickr
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Untitled by Ryan Erickson, on Flickr
Untitled by Ryan Erickson, on Flickr
Untitled by Ryan Erickson, on Flickr

[MX145]

Made some brackets out of 1/8"x1" flat bar to mount the speaker baffle. Can't tell from the pic but the front bracket is bolted to the dash with a button head Allen bolt that's hidden under the dash pad. The other option I had was to utilize the center screw hole for the dash trim bezel. The other bracket is a simple z shape utilizing the factory speaker mounting tab near the firewall.

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Untitled by Ryan Erickson, on Flickr

[MtotheIKEo]

Looks great. What 3D printer and material are you using?

[MX145]

Thanks! I printed the parts with PLA filament on a modified Robo3d. I can share the stl files if anyone wants them.

[MX145]

I made these brackets out of 1/8x1" flat bar to hold the speaker baffle in place.

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[MX145]

Today I tested the Dynaudio e110 tweeters in the dash center location with my attempt at wave guides. The "wave guides" do help move the image a little away from direct center and clean up the sound a little bit.

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Waveguide installed.

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Untitled by Ryan Erickson, on Flickr

I like the e110's matched up with the e650's in the kick panels currently crossed over at 3500Hz. The car sounds day and night better over the Focal 6.5 components I had in the kick panels. The mid bass now has impact, the mid range no longer has a huge spike around 500Hz and the staging is way higher. Even though the tweeters are in the center of the dash I still have good width. The center is just a little too centered for me. It sounds like the vocals are right on the cowl hood scoop. I want them directly in front of me so I'm going to try a deeper modified waveguide.

Keep in mind I'm trying to keep the dash and A pillars clean. I don't want my car to look like a stereo build. I want a clear view of all those cones in front of me as the point of this car is to drive it. I just want a decent stereo for those long drives.

[MX145]

As part of my plan to keep the car clean and have decent staging I think I'm moving away from the idea of running a mid/tweet center channel or 2 mids with tweeters out on the corners of the dash. Especially now that testing center mounted tweeters is going so well. I dont care for the look of pillar mounted large speakers and I don't want to cut the corners of the dash structure to fit a tweeter since the car is essentially done. I've seen DSE build recessed metal pockets in the corners for a 1" tweeter which looks nice but I'm past that point. Besides my e110's are 3 times the size. I also don't want to cut out the VIN location on the dash. The other plan I came up with was to build a fiberglass dash pad structure and hide the tweeters under flush mounted grills in a vinyl wrapped dash pad.

So far testing has been promising with the center dash mods so I'm going to exhaust this approach before reconsidering the fiberglass dash pad idea.

[Spiffav8]

This is such great info and not typical for a thread. Way over due IMO!

[syborg tt]

Originally Posted by Spiffav8

This is such great info and not typical for a thread. Way over due IMO!

Agree 100 % this is an awesome thread