Better kickpods in 60-66 Trucks

[par4tom]

If you are looking to build custom kickpods in your 60-66 truck, what follows is A way to do so while saving yourself a lot of time and money. Notice I did not say that this was THE way...just a way to get competition sound out of your 60-66 trucks. And...I hope the moderator will leave this up for a bit on the main forum before moving it somewhere else...

First, credit where credit is do. I learned to do kick panels from the Godfather of custom Fabrication, Steve Brown. Back in my sound competition circuit days in the late 90's (I was undefeated in my power class)...Steve's designs were light years ahead of the rest of us. He won the national competition and truthfully...I hated parking next to his car as it made me feel like an idiot.

He later went on to work for Alpine...building some of the amazing cars that Alpine would use at CES and Sema. However, he did take me aside at one of the shows and showed me exactly how to build kickpanels with fiberglass. This was revolutionary stuff back in the day...old school now!!!

Second...I always struggled with which way and what method was the best way to illicit amazing sound without numerous trial and error in speaker alignments. Much thought has developed from the early days when speakers were meant to be placed as close together as possible and aimed at the center of the vehicle.

However, in the last 7 to 8 years, science has blown up those earlier theories and Glass Wolf (I don't know who he is but here is a link to his webpage) has perhaps the best information on how to get better sound without guessing. He won 2 national sound competitions in a standard cab truck. So those of us with these older trucks...great sounds are possible.

http://www.glasswolf.net/papers/imaging.html

Here is my build thread with Steve Brown's influence and Glass Wolfs amazing secret to getting perfect imaging and sound quality without guessing...Pic of my drivers side pod