Well Well Well

It turns out my thought that I floated out here in my old build thread will work perfectly

I was looking on an Audi Forum today and found someone who found the pre-amp feeds from the Factory HU to the Factory Amp, he was able to snip these, and bring them into his upgraded auto system (he brought them into a cleansweep, I'm assuming this is he DSP but I posted asking for sure)

For the fellow Audi heads on here that don't have NAV here is a link to the post.

I'm hoping to be able to start my build this weekend, depends on what the SO puts on my honey do list for the weekend

 

Well I am going to start my build tomorrow YAY!

I pulled the passenger door off tonight to pull the factory speaker so I could use it as a template for cutting mounting rings.... I was in for a bit of a shock, the front window guide comes down just off center in the speaker hole... With a 3/4" ring I only have just over 2.5" of clearance, if I create a 1.5" ring the SB17MFC35-4 speakers will just fit depth wise BUT the surround appears it will hit the door card on full extension :-(

So it looks like I will be upgrading to Stereo Integrity tm65 mkII speakers due to their mounting depth of only 2.4"

 

Thump! One of my favorite cars.

 

I had to share the first pic on my new build. So I wasnt happy with the idmax 10 so tonight I decided to upgrade...

The new woofer has a weird vibration when you touch it though sounds kinda like a rattling diesel purrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

No I was pulling the idmax out to bring with to my brothers house tomorrow so we can test the mdf ring we are making to mount it.

 

The IDMAX 10 solid sub. Ever considered getting another one?

 

In a 1cuft sealed box I have the amp only feeding the idmax about 300watts (xdi 650.1 with gains turned down at least half way) and it hits hard enough to make my daughters hair dance! So in a smaller car 1 is plenty

 

Well it turns out today was Mr Murphys day to point at me and laugh

Started out the day not feeling well and ended up getting to my brothers about half an hour late, but he had a horrid day yesterday (family bike ride that ended in a 7 mile ride in pouring rain with an 10 yo) so he was still sleeping when I got there...

We couldn't find his circle jig for his router so after hunting for a while we gave up and made a new one... 3 hours later I left with 4 speaker rings, 2 mdf for the sub, and 2 hdpe for front speakers...

Got home and started my plans for the day...
Started with pulling the rear deck off, removed the factory sub, and went to test the Idmax in the rear deck BUT Mr Murphy started laughing, first I found out a critter had been nesting in some foam insulation by the rear deck, then the sub was too big to even fit into the rear deck

So 2 mdf rings out the window lol

Put the rear deck back together and moved on to wiring the TWK and amp.

Everything turned out good, nothing is completed, but decent for now.

Factory amp

Factory door speakers

Negative dist block

JL Hd900/5 and TWK on the back side

Positive fuse and dist block

And now Mr Murphy reared his ugly head again!
After I extricated my replacement vibrating woofer from the old sealed box I put the Idmax back in, on the last flipping screw the screwdriver slipped and punched through the surround on the woofer grrrr I'm going to try gluing the rip/hole, but need to get proper glue tomorrow.

Apparently the person on the Audi forum was mistaken on the colors of the wires coming from the HU (or the colors were different on my car, year etc), I ended up with the front left speakers play the FL signal and the FR speaker playing the LR signal... So I need to play with the others wires coming from the HU to figure out what pair I need instead of the ones I have going to the LF speaker.

So maybe tomorrow evening I will play with the other 2 pairs from the HU and figure out what pair I need.

Well apparently I am a moron, I went and checked, I connected the pair for RL instead of the ones for FR corrected and I have stereo again. I will create a program for the TWK tonight to help protect the factory speakers untill I order and install the tm65 mkIIs

 

We have all had those days! That sub cab be bottom mounted to the deck but really need a baffle

 

Ya for now its back In a prefab about 1ft³ sealed box. But not being used yet until I try to glue the surround.

I am going to look at building a fiberglass enclosure in the side wall of the trunk.