Whataya get when you give a Jeep wooden doors?I like the idea of making my own wood half doors a lot better than spending $4,500 on them!
That’s way better than the factory tailgate.I finished up that mesh tailgate yesterday. Came out really nice. I drove it to work this morning, did 95 with zero issues.
I found a cheap product I can buy at Home Depot (Foaming Ammonia) and a toothbrush to take off the Rough Country wording. Not sure exactly what I want to spray paint on there myself, but when I figure it out I'll post about it.
Chicken wire worked great for Jake and Elwood.I will use chicken wire and I will make it look extra tacky just for you guys!!
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“ANARCHY” in big, messy red letters is an obvious choice…I finished up that mesh tailgate yesterday. Came out really nice. I drove it to work this morning, did 95 with zero issues.
I found a cheap product I can buy at Home Depot (Foaming Ammonia) and a toothbrush to take off the Rough Country wording. Not sure exactly what I want to spray paint on there myself, but when I figure it out I'll post about it.
I don’t think you need to spend a lot on the speakers, though if people do then more power to ‘em. Infinity, Kenwood, and the mopar Kicker speakers out of a Dart or something are common go-to’s.So I took off the sound bar yesterday and started pulling it apart, I don't have any sound deadening mats as of right now, but I did buy some polyfill a while ago and have been meaning to see if it will affect the sound at all.
Before I added the polyfill it sounded pretty good overall definitely met all my expectations. The bass was decent enough and the mid-range was pretty cool and the treble was there I guess. I wouldn't say it was as good as my wife's Subaru which has the Harman Kardon sound system on it, but it took care of me. The only place where I felt it needed improvement was on the highways it felt like all the sound was escaping in every direction but down. Some songs I would have it on completely full blast, and still not be able to hear the song.
My understanding of polyfill is that it tricks the sound waves into thinking the space is bigger than it is, so you can make a small little box sound like a big one with a little bit of polyfill.
It was strangely easy to yank apart too.
(Sorry for the fuzzy photo, it's already put back together so I'm not about to yank it apart for a better photo.)
If you do do this, I wouldn't mess with this tube thing, unless you have a replacement gasket. It has a neoprene gasket underneath it that shreds when you take out the screws. It was a real son of a gun trying to get it back in place in pieces so that was still effectively doing its job. I ended up using a little bit of clear coat as glue to make it stay in place.
From the reading up I've done on using this stuff, too much polyfill is bad, and not enough polyfill is bad. One of the videos I was watching about how to install polyfill before I did this was basically saying how it's a guessing game and professional speaker makers and audio guys Well basically keep adjusting how much polyfill is in there until it's perfect.
You guys know me, I don't care about perfection. So I stuffed enough in there that I felt it was adequate, without being so much that it's pushing the speaker back out when I reinstalled it.
I got it all reassembled and put it back on the cross pillar, and I was thinking about the four other speakers in the dash. The two up top I know our super easy to access, and the ones beneath them are a little more difficult to access. So at least for today I went in and yanked out the two upper speakers on the dash.
Same thing on the front, no real measuring of the polyfill, just filled it to where I felt it was right.
I should probably add that I cleaned up all of these spaces with a Shop-Vac and tried to wipe down anything I thought might be a little bit dirty with a microfiber cloth.
Now that it's all put back together, I was testing it with a couple different genres that I listen to, electronic music with heavy bass, rap with some mid-range and heavy bass, death metal with mild bass mid-range and treble, and some bluegrass with a lot of mid-range a fair amount of treble and next to no bass.
It sounds noticeably better, at least at a standstill. Like the base sounds deeper and more full. The mid-range and treble aren't just high-pitched staticky, playing with the settings on the equalizer actually makes a difference now. I can really hear it. It's kind of hard to describe since I'm not much of an audiophile, but overall I feel it made a difference. I think at this point the only thing I would do to improve it further is at a future date I will upgrade the speakers themselves. I've always been a fan of those ones with the tweeters in the center. I won't ever install a subwoofer, I can't stand how much space they take up. But for now I'm happy with how it turned out.
So for like $4 with tax at hobby lobby or whatever your local craft store is, you can definitely improve your base speakers with just a little bit of time. And honestly it's like super quick. I did the second set of speakers on the dash only because the sound bar went so quick. At a future date I will pull off those lower dash speakers trim and access those and add some polyfill.
After I get the back seat situated, then I will be looking into getting some inexpensive upgraded speakers in there too.
Any recommendations on speakers will be greatly appreciated. I'm probably looking to spend like $160 total, like $80 for the sound bar and maybe another $80 for the dash. I do want to keep the speaker locations the same, I've seen that kit you can buy to add a bigger speaker on the sound bar, and that's not something I want to do.
Hope you all had as good of a weekend as I've had so far. ?
Might be my favorite mod so far!We don't get snow in North Texas very often.
Seems the snow's not going to stick, but looks pretty for now.
