I have gone through this entire thread tonight and have been very impressed. If anyone deserves "Rep Power", BowDown does! I can't believe his rep powa is so low compared to the work he's done and information he's shared on the forum. I think it is only fair for us to give those Rep who deserve it....no doubt this cat does!
Got the bezel clearanced, filler piece glued in place w/plastic weld adhesive, first coat of icing over the area, bracket fab finished, bracket painted, subwoofer mounted, grill mounted, box mounted, wired, dash mat cut, more tuning done on the car... Was a pretty productive 95 deg day!
Rotated the sub to get fresh meat for the screws. Can't see sub through anyway.
OMG. I have the biggest grin on my face. Today I fished out the wires for the carPC and decided to hook it up for the first time w/optical and H700 processor.. IT SOUNDS PHENOMENAL. Cleanest sound reproduction I have ever heard. The impact was awesome, the imaging was near spot on.. I can't believe this is mostly the same system as before. In the picture I removed the HU to get the wires for the carPC. I do need to order longer cables now that the carPC is higher up. I think it's a bit tilted. I have alot of adjustablity with the new mount. It makes the PC much easier to use as well.
Hell ya! Tomorrow I'm going to work on smoothing the bezel. Then I have to create the HU mounting brackets. Then the front is done! After I re-carpet the amp rack trim piece the fab work is DONE.
Been riding the bike the past few days, so not a whole lot of progress. I ordered new USB cables to reach the new carPC location. I also removed the carpet from the amp rack trim piece, and sanded off most of the glue. It's almost ready to re-carpet. I started fab on my new HU mounting brackets. I so wish I didn't throw away the first set I made. Would of saved me alot of time. Going to work on finishing those brackets during lunch today.
I also found a great deal on a mint JBL BP300.1 amp. Not sure if I'm going to use it for anything.. but figured I may give an aura bass shaker mounted to the floor pan under my seat a try. Thinking if it's crossed over up to 35hz or so.. it might give the illusion of a larger sub. The sealed 10 kinda rolls off around 35hz.
Outside of that it's been tweaking of the H700. She is sounding great at the moment!
I went back a few pages but didn't see, what did you use to wrap that grille? Is it just grille cloth? How did you hold it down to fit the contours?
Ya it's the same grill cloth as what's on the A-Pillars. It was spray glued (lightly) to the grill. I would imagine each year after the sun beats on it I may have to recover.
Well let us know how it's held up at the end of the summer, lol. I was actually thinking you could take some gray thread and stitch around that bottom contour to hold it snug. Unless of course you are worried about the fabric itself loosing it's elasticity over time...
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Well let us know how it's held up at the end of the summer, lol. I was actually thinking you could take some gray thread and stitch around that bottom contour to hold it snug. Unless of course you are worried about the fabric itself loosing it's elasticity over time...
Ya that could be an idea. I have noticed that the fabric does 'relax' a bit in the sun. The grill will come off without too much trouble. It's just friction fit in because of the carpet. Tis a tight fit without the bottom bracket. No resonance either.
Well damned if you do, damned if you don't. I guess I should of just modified the Scosche bezel.. cause I had to cut this one up. The sub now sits 1/4" deeper into the dash than before.. must of not been fully sealed the last install.. so I have to cut the opening larger. I'm thinking that both bezels are abs.. so I will cut and graft a section from the scosche bezel onto the metra. In the mean time I clearanced the metra bezel accordingly.
What do you think? HU at bottom, H700 controller at top, and middle divider bar between? Or HU bottom, controller directly on top, and fill in the gap above the controller?
Hole for the carPC mount is actually center and round. It's just icing that extended over the hole that I didn't clean up yet.
Just realized I had done the mockup before using the Scosche bezel. Ya this is the ticket! Going to cut out that opening section and graft it onto the Metra.
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She's getting there. On the home stretch. Going to finish the HU mounting brackets during lunch, and work on cutting out the piece to graft into the bezel.
Alright. Outside of a few holes to be drilled (forgot my drill bits, doh!), the brackets are done! Cut up a LVL hanger. Figured it was close to what I needed. Good way to blow $6.
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