Not sure if anyone has seen these, but if anyone gets them, let us know how they work out. I'm all about saving time. I love custom kick panels like the above. BTW I am not the ebay seller on the link below.
eBay Motors: 78-87 BUICK REGAL GRAND NATIONAL KICK PANELS SPEAKERS (item 310126457104 end time Mar-09-09 19:44:21 PDT)
q-forms are good kick panels but not great.reason so is because the speaker(midrange) has no sealed enclosure to play in which loses the midbass and the depth of the front stage....in the q's the rear of the speaker is exposed and trying to get the kick to seal all the way around is very hard.
if you can somehow put the front mids in a box it will sound 500% better...thats why the fronts that are in the doors are pretty good,the inner door is close to being sealed and the speakers have a large (almost) sealed "box" to play in.....HTH
I've used q-forms before. They are still in one of my cars. But, they need some modification to be good, IMO. They work out great for 99% of folks. Quick and easy. Some fixes for them are matting them (Dynamat, E-dead, etc) and stiffing them with a 1/2" - 1" wood/MDF mounting ring behind the woofer. Just those 2 simple mods make them sound 100% better.
True in most cases, but not all. Some speakers work better in an Infinite Baffle setup (no enclosure) or an Aperiodic setup (semi-sealed, for lack of a better term). The Hybrid Audio L4 midrange I'm using needs to "breathe", so they work better in an IB setup My L4's will be vented into the body/fender behind the kick panel.
I've never liked the q-forms for anything bigger than a 5 1/4" midrange. Just can't be modified enough to work correctly for a midbass IMO.
liquidh8 - nice looking install
John
I've used q-forms before. They are still in one of my cars. But, they need some modification to be good, IMO. They work out great for 99% of folks. Quick and easy. Some fixes for them are matting them (Dynamat, E-dead, etc) and stiffing them with a 1/2" - 1" wood/MDF mounting ring behind the woofer. Just those 2 simple mods make them sound 100% better.
True in most cases, but not all. Some speakers work better in an Infinite Baffle setup (no enclosure) or an Aperiodic setup (semi-sealed, for lack of a better term). The Hybrid Audio L4 midrange I'm using needs to "breathe", so they work better in an IB setup My L4's will be vented into the body/fender behind the kick panel.
I've never liked the q-forms for anything bigger than a 5 1/4" midrange. Just can't be modified enough to work correctly for a midbass IMO.
liquidh8 - nice looking install
John