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For anyone interested for future reference, here's my progress. The most important thing I've learnt about all this is the sound deadening. Take your time on deadening as much as you can, the results are well worth it. Heck even the crappy factory speakers sounded better when I initially did the passenger door with Dynamat. I was then told to switch to Focal Bam. Basically I should have done my research first instead of assuming Dynamat was still king, it's far from it. I then stripped off the Dynamat, redid with Bam and the difference is night & day. I've now done both front doors outer skin, inner skin, and the door panels themselves. Also put quite a bit of Bam in the rear cargo area. I have a large diffuser pad behind each mid-bass. I made up a custom frame to bolt the mid-ranges to, that is then glued to door panel with a flexible sealer/glue with 3 rings of foam between the plate and frame, and then has Bam over the back of it.
I noticed the difference in the sound as I applied the Bam, the more area I covered the better the sound quality. The Focals sound really good already, they actually pump at higher volumes and this is still with the stock factory amp. Once it's all wired up I have foam rings for the fronts of the mid-bass and will cover the backs of the tweeter & mid-range with 3mm Dynaliner.
It's going in to be all wired up next week with a Helix V Eight DSP amp for the three-ways, and an Audison SR 1.500 mono amp for the sub. Once it's all been wired up I'll deaden the rear doors, and will probably put some Focal two-ways in there.
Originally Posted by ope126
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