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From Back Seat to Speaker System


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Wanted to share my experience of creating an alternative to the 510 back seat. I've been experimenting a lot over the last year or so with different styles. After I put in the roll bar, it became pretty obvious that I couldn't use the back seat anymore. So I decided that the back board of the seat would be a great place for two 6x9's. So I did about 80,000 measurements, made a mock up and started cutting.

 

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The speaker and head unit I decided to get was a Pioneer DEH-S6000 series 6x9 set.

 

 

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The first major problem I ran into was that the speakers, inside those holes, hit the gas tank. I needed about 2.5 cm more to comfortably clear the tank, so I grabbed some nylon i had lying around and made some spacers. Probably not the cleanest or best way of doing it, but it was the easiest. 

 

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So after a few days of mock ups and a few nights of brainstorming ways to mount this or that and a couple hours of hardware hunting (which was a lot harder than usual, thanks to Lowe's discontinuing Orchard Supply Hardware ?), I finally had a master plan, sure to never run in to future problems. 

 

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And of course half of the rivets broke loose and three holes were measured wrong, despite me measuring them two or three times. Oh well, fourth time's the charm, right? ?

 

So after making sure that the speakers fit with the spacers all up in them inside the car, I went to Joann's fabrics and got some weird cloth/vinyl hybrid material and wrapped the back/speaker board and the luggage shelf board. 

 

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Nice work Bro. In all the 510s I've owned, none of them had a stereo. I LOVES my tunes, but in a 510 I'm focused on the engine. I installed a serious system in my work truck, but that was compensation for having to drive a truck all day. 

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