Quote Originally Posted by gearfreak View Post
Welcome and good luck with the project.

Door panels (assuming, household doors?) probably an attempt to quash resonances by stiffening the cab/ adding mass. If so, maybe sound better with them in place. You are the judge. Depending on what is left, you may be as well off adding new ply panels to the (damaged?) areas.

Color: If looking for 'altec grey' there are several threads on the topic here iirc. Otherwise, I like black myself. :-)

Tweeter: perhaps will be apparent from the pics, what was enclosed. The 811_ or 511_ horn that we may expect to be there could be mounted inside or outside the cabinet, by design. So we assume there is some sort of extension on the top?.
Yep... 1/4" door skins glued to the side. Ugly as hell and a b!tch to get off! The chips filled nicely with wood filler fortunately.

I'm going with a color that's warmer and a hair lighter than the original color.

Both cabinets have a green 511B on top. The new one has an 806a and the cabinet I'm working on has an 802c.

Quote Originally Posted by Panomaniac View Post
There is a lot you can do inside the box to make it better. Stiffen and thicken the walls, brace and damp the thin wodden horn flares. That's plenty of work to get you started. Then you can work on the ports and the when you feel completely exhausted, attack the crossover. Welcome to the club!
That sounds like a good idea. I'll search around but do you have any threads in mind to help me get started?