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5 hours to get one door panel on. Ridiculous! I had issue after issue. First being that I had to cut and shave down the metal speaker grill bracket on the door panel. It was thicker than I expected. I went through 6 dremel wheels, 2 of which were reinforced. I also cut out some of the...

Oh yeah baby! Doors are all sealed up. I just have to modify the panel a bit to fit over the speakers and I'm good to go. Sealing the doors wasn't terribly difficult, it just took freakin forever! At first I was just going to seal the opening covers with silicone, but it was a little too flimsy...

Is the dipstick tube glued on with epoxy?

As stated earlier:

I did a AT-MT swap and had a similar issue with the passenger side wing bracket not lining up either. After bolting the bracket to the block, everything lined up fine except for the very bottom of the bracket which was a good 1/2" from the bellhousing. I snapped one in half trying to torque it...

I'd have to agree. Here's what a set of Eibach Pro's look like uninstalled. Here they are installed on a Supra with Tokico Illuminas. Notice the top of the spring just rests on itself pretty much defeating the purpose of a progressive setup. I guess if you go over a steep...

I'd steer clear of duplicolor and Krylon Fusion for anything that will have any contact at all. Even with proper prepping, the Krylon Fusion just sits on the surface. Also, it says it's a matte finish yet it dries glossy. I've already had to touch up several plastic panels just from the...

Doors are almost sealed. I've been behind since it took forever to properly shoehorn the 6 1/2" components into the factory location. http://www.supramania.com/forums/showthread.php?t=111575 I decided to keep using the molding clay to fill in any small holes in the doors. For the medium sized...

Appears to be coming along nicely. What kind of wheels and compounds have you been using?

They've been gone for over 10 years. There's still plenty of their speakers left floating around on ebay since a couple of places bought up all their inventory when they went under. Amplifiers, not so much. I had one of their P4100.2 Anniversary 4 channel powerplates hooked up to a set of MB...

Matt, talk is cheap. Get your ass back down here and help me finish! :biglaugh:

I was actually surprised to see how specific Orion was with how they rated the sensitivity of these drivers. "Sensitivity 2.83 volt RMS pink noise measured at 1 meter: 91 dB" Then again, they were an $850 set back in the day, which was pretty high back then. Just goes to show what a great...

These babies are built to take it. I specifically matched my components to the amp. You should see their passive crossover. It's the size of a VHS tape :evil2: Oh, and components sensitivity is realitively high at 91db Specs: 1" Copolymer Dome Ferrofluid Cooled Tweeters...

Grim, I see what you mean. I guess I did sort of mix those two causes of speaker death together. Thank you for the correction. Also, the back of the tweeter is sealed since it sits on the outside of the bracket. Some air may squeeze through the small opening where I have the wires ran, but...

Pretty fugly and not worth the trouble IMO. But if you like it, I say go for it. It can only look better when it's finished. If you have the time and the patience, then do it.

You must not be too familiar with these components. They love lots of power. They are identical to the Orion Concept components minus the fancy aluminum cones. Most speakers are damaged from being underpowered and clipping the amp to the point where it throws distortion at the drivers, heating...

I've found that the clay does a great job in dampening the vibrations from such a large driver. These speakers are 2ohm and I'm going to be pushing 350rms to each side (they can take it). I like a lot of headroom in my soundstage. The next step is to finish sealing off the doors and then I...

Walla! Monster speaker in the optimum position. ***I've since added #6 washers around the 4 screws that secure the speaker to the bracket since they were barely touching the speaker ring to begin with. ***

I'm using a set of Orion HCCA 6S components which utilized a cast basket (not stamped) 6 1/2" midbase and 1" tweeter. Start with a pair of speaker brackets out of a 91 or 92 Supra. I went this route rather than fabbing my own pair since the factory bracket positions the speaker in the...

I notice that the earlier units still have 10 wires. However, one of the black/white wires is ran separately for power. There already are 2 black/white wires coming out of the later HKS TEMS units. They just both go to the harness and actually connect to each other mid-way for whatever reason...