speaker grilles for the newbies

[POS carb]

custom-looking grilles, all you have to do is remove the carpeting and you can paint the metal grilles whatever color you want.

[catalin]

Pretty cool, but you should have placed the tweeter up higher.

[munkeexxx]

thanx for the tip but whut did yoiu use to paint the grills?
spray paint?

[shepherd79]

i used black gloss paint.

[munkeexxx]

allright...this sounds cool...so i just rip off the carpet, pick up sum spray paint, and color away?

[shepherd79]

i would sand a little, prime it first and than paint.
mine were rusty so i sanded, primed and painted.

[ShawnS]

anybody done the back ones? i did the fronts and they look nice, but the back ones are plastic so i'm a little reluctant to paint them. any suggestions?

[Mike's89AccordLX]

I think my fronts and backs are both plastic. I guess I will have to take them off and check. That looks pretty cool for a cheap mod.

[shepherd79]

my front grills are metal, but my back grills are plastic.
i painted both of them black, and they look nice.

[POS carb]

the back ones are ugly

[danronian]

I am going to do this since the carpet on my grilles is really dirty making the whole front of the car look bad, I was going to just paint the whole speaker cover but this is a much better idea in my mind

[87DXHatch]

Originally posted by catalin
Pretty cool, but you should have placed the tweeter up higher.

Just curious, why do you say that? The way it looks like he has them, they're angled up, raising the sound stage... and on top of that they are very close to the woofers keeping phase problems pretty much in check.

Why do you think he should put them up higher if they are essentially accomplishing everything kickpods would do, and, from what I've seen, some top SQ competitors use kickpods with tweeters angled similarly to what he has?

[catalin]

Originally posted by 87DXHatch
Just curious, why do you say that? The way it looks like he has them, they're angled up, raising the sound stage... and on top of that they are very close to the woofers keeping phase problems pretty much in check.

Why do you think he should put them up higher if they are essentially accomplishing everything kickpods would do, and, from what I've seen, some top SQ competitors use kickpods with tweeters angled similarly to what he has?

Yes that's true they do sound better if all speakers are kept together and pointed to the location of the listener.
What I meant is that the tweeters will most likely be blocked by the legs of the driver and the passenger.

[87AccordsterLx]

Actually if you turn the cover around you will see a few little pieces of the grill folded back to hold it on... just bend them back and the metal part of the cover will come out. I used black semi-gloss spray paint and went over it with clear coat.

[danronian]

I painted the front grills flat black, and ripped the cloth off of the black ones and since they are already black they look fine. The rears do look kind of strange w/o the fabric, but I am sure they will grow on me. Since both of those speakers were blown those speaker holes just act as bass ports for my ported sub box, now I dont have to open the back seat to get more bass, yay!