Tom400CFI

My fronts had the same carpet over then as the rears. My fronts have suffered no abuse with the new cloth. It's been over 2 years now.

AirForceOne!

Well got the fronts done this afternoon and they came out great! They were covered with the same carpet as the back speakers! What were the engineers thinking!

Tom400CFI

Nice work! Looks fantastic.

How's it sound for you?

AirForceOne!

Thanks, they sound great and look even better!

The fronts were easier to cover than the rear! I did have to use alcohol to clean the glue off the front where the carpet was glued.

I didn't have to use any glue on the front, just double sided carpet tape on the back all the way around the edge and streched it to fit!

Looks like a professional did it if I do say so myself!

-=Jeff=-

Here is what I did for fronts

AirForceOne!

That looks good too!, what size speakers do you have in the front?

-=Jeff=-

1" tweeter and 4" mid

I also have a 6.5" in the door

Scotts97C4

I worked over my rear speaker covers.

Tom400CFI

Where in the door? Pic? How do you feel about that location?

-=Jeff=-

I had these same locations in my 89 with 91 dash. It works well and sound is good but the OEM speaker cover do take away for the sound a bit.

Here is a pic right after I test fitted the door sill cover. Prior to cleaning

Tom400CFI

Wow...that looks really good Jeff. Nice work and thanks for sharing!

DJ63

Hi There AF1, is that a factory speaker cover for the front? The one we took off my dads 90 looks dfferent?

DJ63

Jeff,
Are your front speakers stock? Question about front speakers in general. My dads don't seem to be working at all? The rears are super loud and sound good but when you fade to the front you can't tell they are one. Not sure if we sould send the front assemblies out to have the amps fixed or just replace the front speakes altogether with an aftermarket?

-=Jeff=-

Sounds like a potential amp failure

I have nothing stock in my system:

Fronts:
Door: CDT 6.5
Frame rail (OE lication) CDT 1" tweeter and CDT 4"

Rears:
Elemental Designs EU700 one on each side

Amps:
Arc Audio KS300.4 (one amp for fronts, one for rears)

Headunit:
Pioneer App Radio 2

DJ63

Did you use the stock box for the fronts and just replace the speakers or how do you have the front set up mounted?

-=Jeff=-

I built panel mounts at first then I bought these from a forum member. These are solid but quite thick...



There is a back side to it as well..

mfi

It was one of the first things I did..never understood how they could cover them with carpet...

DJ63

Yeah my dad says the same, he wants them exposed to get the sound. If we send his back to fix the amps not sure how we will make that happen unless we re-cover the speaker cover with a thinner speaker material. If we go after market I was thinking of using the factory box and re-usung the carpet but using the speaker covers as well.

bdw18_123

I can't believe I never thought to do this when I had my '90 ZR-1, what a great idea!

Another mod you can do to the stock speakers (I'm one that thinks the stock Bose system sounds great when working properly) to make them sound better that I did (there was an old how-to on this somewhere on this forum, but I can't remember where) is make a 1:1 mixture of Elmer's wood glue and warm water and paint several layers of this mixture onto the rear speakers and the larger front speaker (the how-to said not to do this to the small front tweeters) and letting each coat dry before applying the next.

I think I did around 3-4 coats on mine and it really does improve the sound quality. Makes the stock paper speakers sound a lot crisper like the more modern poly ones.

So combine the wood glue mod with the speaker carpet replacement mod and the stock Bose system will really sound good! If all the amps are working correctly, that is. Of course it won't ever sound quite as good as the modern systems, but these two mods will improve the sound a lot.




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AirForceOne!

DJ63, yes, that's the factory cover after I removed the carpet and replaced it with speaker fabric.