I just recieved my boston sl60 component set, and decided i'd try to rig it up a little in my car.
I made a few pictures of some stuff I did



I started by removing the door panel and taking out the crappy stock speaker.

I was plannin on making some 6.5 inch adapters but used the boston rings to mount the speakers like this instead. I still might decide to build some plates out of some thin particle material we had in the garage, but really how much better would they really sound than this way? There is really not that large of an area around the woofer that is just "free air." So unless someone just knows that they will sound absolutely like crap this way, I'm probably going to leave them . I used the included woofer gaskets inbetween the speaker and the plates.


I then wired the crossovers that were included. There is a crossover for each woofer, and for each tweeter. They can be ran together, or apart depending on whether you run 4 chanels or 2. This picture will help to explain what i'm talking about. I'm just running a 12 gauge wire into the tweeter input, using the jump wire to connect the crossovers, i'm running a 12 gauge wires to the woofer, and smaller wires to the tweeters. I drilled holes in the bottom of the map trays, or whatever you call the slots in the doors and run my wires up through the door panels to the crossovers.



Here are the backs of the crossovers, I chose to run them in the SQ-2 woofer position because the woofers are not directly parrallel in line with my ears in the drivers seat.

I put my crosovers here: (they are just kinda sitting there now, i tried 2 sided tape but it would not stick[]


I've only had them hooked up directly to the pioneer head unit and they reallly sound pretty good like that. I imagine they will sound somewhat better when I get an amp on them.

I haven't permanantly mounted the tweeters yet, i'm still waiting to find some mach mid/high grills so that I can mount the tweeter behind them. Then I plan to take the "boston" logo off of the woofer grills that were included and put them where the "mach 460" emlem is on the mach grills.

If anyone sees anything i'm doing wrong please let me know, or if you see a better way of doing something please let me know, as I can use all the input I can get

Thanks!

 

Looks like a good start.

You will definately want to make adapters. They will loose a lot of midrange and midbass installed with no baffle.

 

hmmm.. so its worth doing huh? Is it because the adapter works like a soundboard, or just because it blocks the air from moving around the woofer?

Also if you got any tips on how to wire / adjust This amp for these speakers i'd realllllllly appreciate it.

 

The adapter is definately worth doing.

That amp is sort of a pickle for those speakers. I don't want to recommend bridging the amp becuase I don't want you to blow your speakers. I would run the comps off of channels 1 and 2 and turn the gain to about half. You can set the gain by ear, by...

1. Turn the gain al lthe way down

2. Turn the HU to the highest level you will turn it.

3. Slowly adjust the gain until the speaker starts to distort, then back it off a little.


That is a pretty good way to adjust gains, but a mulitmeter is a much better way.

 

Well I got the speakers installed.. mostly.. I ended up making 6.5 adapter plates, not sure if it really helped the sound alot, but it couldn't have hurt.

I've only got them direcly wired to my pioneer head unit right now.. they actually sound pretty good this way, however there is some distortion at a little over 3/4 ways up on the volume of the head unit. I'm really hoping the distortion is coming out of the head unit at this high of level because I still plan to hook the bostons to an amp.

Could I bridge my front and rear channels and run them into the components?

anyways.. i'll have more pics tomar..

Preal, thanks for all the help!

Neil

 

That sony amp might be a little too powerful bridged for those speakers. You could use it if you watch your gains but be careful, I don't want to be responsible for blown speakers. There should be a remarkable increase in sq when you amp them.

Any HU will distort at high volumes, bre careful, that clipping from the hu amp could kill your comps.

 

I think you meant to put...


OBLITERATE

 

I was trying to be nice.

SPEAKERS DO NOT LIKE SQUARE WAVES!!!!!

 

i wouldn't permanently mount the X-overs in the door pockets either...mount them behind the kick-panels so they are INSIDE the car...not out in the open where a) thieves can see them and b) rain/whatever else can get to them when the door is open

 

Obliterate you say... haha.. i'll try to control the volume finger then.

Today I got the tweeters mounted. I just used the boston mounts for now untill I find some mach covers. Being as i'im real slow about getting anything done though this is probably how they'll stay. I still haven't got the amp in, but i'm kinda tired of not driving my car being as the door panels have been off for 3 days... So I just got it drivable for now.. I should get the amp in next week some time.

I made a few pics..




and for the crossovers... I just used some styrofoam covered in black tape to wedge them in there.. I planned on using 2 sided tape but even after cleaning the panel with alcohol many times they wouldnt stick. The foam is only visable if you look directly down at them, and seems to do a good job holding them in there.