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Has anyone built custom kick panels/pods for the 01 civic to house your component speakers? The stock locations are crappy for sound imaging and soundstage. Anyone think that Q-Logic is going to make them for our cars?

 
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some company is making kicks for our cars. the dont look like they will have good imaging. im curretly working on kicks but if they dont fit right since i have a stick. im going to get the qlogic ones and reinforce the heck out of them and change the way the speakers sit

 
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I have MB Quart three way components in the front of my civ. And I have made my own kickpanels to house the midrange and tweeter. It takes a little time and a little creativity but if you just keep trying you can do it. I purchased an extra set of kickpanels from manchester hond and fabricated my own out of fiberglass on top of the factory ones so that I could just pop them into place when I was finished. I bought the extra ones in case I messed and so that I could return the car to stock. The factory ones only cost about $6-7. I also made the custom kickpanels to house these same speakers for my Saturn before my wife crashed it. But, if she wouldn't have crashed it I couldn't have purchased my Civ.

 
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$6-7 ??? im going to honda this weekend and picking some up.

 
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I bought the plastic trim panels that I'm referring to about a year ago so I'm not totally sure on the exact price. But, I do know that they were less than $10 ea. I figured that I should have a backup pair in case of a mistake. A precaution that I didn't take when making them for the Saturn. I didn't mess up on either vehicle. But, it gives you piece of mind anyways. Hope this is of some use. If you use fiberglass be prepared to make a mess. Just a forewarning, my friend and I make our speaker boxes and such out of the stuff so we have a little bit of experience. The more you use it the better you get.

 
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I Had 3-ways components with the 4" mid sin kicks. If you drive stick that's about the biggest speaker you'll fit in there while retaining a good sound stage and image. while still being able to shift. You can go fit 6.5's buy the woofers would have to great off-axis response which very very few do to pull it off,,

Cheers
Mohawk