im pretty sure i have seen kick panals you can buy that are made to install a speaker into.... ware do you buy these at... im talking about the plastic panals down buy your feet to the sides of the car...

 

Usually you can find them on E-Bay, or these thirdgen classifieds..I saw some nice ones made in Europe, don't know if they still produce them..

 

If you're not in a hurry, over the winter I plan to make a mold of mine and start selling them. Since Reznor (or whatever his name was) went off to Iraq, a lot of people have been asking about where to get custom kicks.

I'm also planning to offer them with custom component speakers with crossovers designed specifically for that application.

Here's a pic of one of my kickpanels:



Right now I'm probably planning to offer them in carpet and vinyl. Painted will be more (way more).

With any luck, after the holidays I'll have time to start working on that mold and the components.

 

awesome Jim, i am definatley interested in a set

 

count me in, what kind of pricing?

 

I would like a set also.

 

yea definitly because 200 for qlogic plasric craps is rediculous... if you can price em competitively you may have a decent income for as long as you feel like making them. i would definitly love a set for my 5.25" components

 

are those sealed kickpanels or are the open in the back..... also what would the pricing be on the carpeted version

 

I found some
http://www.cardomain.com/item/QLCQLK1002B01?vq_id=none

 

I haven't figured out a price yet. It depends on just how easily I can make them. I would guess around $200/pair for the bare kicks in carpet, more in vinyl. If these work out the way I'm planning, they'll be a piece that you add to your kicks instead of buying a whole new set of kicks.

My goal for the speakers is to try to price them at or below $200, but I might develop a more high-end set also.

This stuff isn't going to be flea-market priced, but I'm not going to get rich off it either. I'm going to price it as affordable as I can without taking it in the shorts.

Hopefully by spring I'll have something. Right now I'm saving up for some of the test & measurement equipment that I need.

 

has anyone used teh q-logic kickpanels... how do they sound

 

I haven't used them, but the general consensus is that if you add a few layers of dynamat or fiberglass & resin to the back side to sufficiently damp them, that they sound pretty good.

 

i am going to be producing these soon as well as all fiberglass boxs for the rear and possibly sail pannel pods

 

well they are 130 on cardomain and i really dont wanna f with glassing my own...... unless someone offers a pair at or below that price i guess ima try em out

 

At least add some dynamat to the back side. They are just thin ABS plastic and they'll vibrate like a retard with his hand in the garbage disposal if you don't damp them.

 

lmao okay that sounds like a good idea

 

high priced junk. and the look very cheap in the car i might add.

 

i mght be making some that will be around 100 american for the set in painted or carpet

 

yea..... i dont reall wanna get the q-logics. alberta PM me whwen you decide to make em and ill see if i have $100 bucks also how will you make them.

btw i have 5.25" components

 

i make a mold behind the actual kicks and then make a new mold of the smoothed front part and then i glass em together really simple really have no digital camera so i cant upload pics they wont be done until summer any way due to its too cold in alberta right now for the glass to cure

 

oh cool. i was wondering what the procedure you use was.... when you can make the kicks pm me..

 

I don't know how you stick-drivers are using these kick panel speaker set-ups! I just finished installing my new kick panels with a set-up just like the one pictured above and the left side of my foot hits the grill when using the clutch! I made the kicks specifically for the Infinity 50.5 components I got and it sticks out WAY too far, even with minimal tilt of the mid!! Maybe the magnets are too big for this kind of set-up but I'm switching the speakers to the door panels...