8W6 Door panel project pics

exactly about having play, but I wasnt sure about angling the speaker.  I thought maybe just keep it the way it is and move the mount up about 1/4" or so.

What do you guys think should I angle the speaker upwards?

What I was going to do to get maximum volume for the box of the speaker without having clearence issues was to take 1''x1''x1'' wood to make a skeleton where I can fleece on that and make the biggest box possible to make the proper volume which is .375ft.cu. including driver displacement and bracing displacement.  Does this sound like a good plan?  I also plan on using pinto beans to measure the volume of the enclosure which I believe will work more efficiently than packing peanuts.

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I think the enclosure angled up a little bit would make it look alot better and possibly sound better that having it straight in, in my previous post I was  just making sure you have enough clearance for all the materials needed to complete the enclosure , cuz it didnt look have you had enough room. Good Luck on ya project.

yea I was thinking about angling it in the begining but ended up not doing it, but if you guys back me up on the first idea than angle it is! haha.  I dunno about actually insetting the speaker though, that is a fairly good size hole to cut into my door!  lol.  But it is looking good, as soon as I get back home, I will get on top of framing a skeleton to give me my guidlines to create the best possible enclosure.  When I do that I will need some suggestions as I have a couple of ideas in my head, but are hard to explain verbally or in our case in writting haha.  We will see what you guys think actually looks the best.  Anywho thanks for all the compliments and encouragement.

o0o almost forgot haha you are probably right about the footrest comment . . .  . . .

haha nah man don't even trip potato chip I thought it was pretty funny, because the funniest things in life are the things that are true!  I will make sure that if anybody decides to use it as a footrest they either pay me for the material I use to cover the door in at the end, or I will just throw them the hell outta my car! lol.  But yea it is looking good so far and I think it will be nice at the end.  I seen your project on the front of that bug and it looks b***in!

I haven't quite gotten to the point of thinking about what I should use to cover my new door panels though.  Anybody have some suggestions in mind??

BTW I was going to ask, anybody know what a good deal on  5 gallon bucket of resin is, I had a guy tell me who would sell me a 5er for $150 when I though about it, it comes out to the same price if I buy the gallon bucket that I currently buy at OSH which is on the same block I live on, about 50 steps and I am in the door! lol