[flomofo]

Its raining a lot up here so sorry for the pics, the car looks good though trust me.

and the real reason for buying it, a little more than my 08 civic si but a whole lot faster even with heavie gear, and it handles great too.

Build consists of simple 2 way active front stage using complementary and in-expensive but good sounding components. I took my time researching what I wanted because I had a lot of time and no money

Front stage consists of ID Oem's basically donated to me by Hillbilly (Thx again!) and an impulse buy of Atomic's 30mm (about 1.2") silk super tweeter.

I used an mtx re-q5 as a loc converter, bass restorer (factory bass rollsoff), and also to bandpass my mids with my kenwood x4r amplifier.

So I'm using the kenwood x4r and x1r amps, with the x1r hopefully being run as a slave off of the x4r.

The subwoofer is the DIYMA r-12. Very heavy and weight is always a concern for me, but its reputation and hearing it in boostedrex's car makes me want to try it, reverse mounted if possible.

I will try and include a few lines of advice and some parts of this car are very easy to work, but a few were tricky.

 

[flomofo]

Got my front stage in and included some pics.

As far as getting in the speakers everything is the same as the diy articles already on forums like g8board.com aside from my tweeters but I have a picture of that. Sorry for not being completely extensive but my battery in my camers keeps dying.

So running wire...

Its pretty basic as you can see. Just go from the trunk run under the rear seat which simply pops loose in the front on each side and then pull out, no bolts or anything.

I also unbolted the bottom of both of the rear seatbacks which had two nuts on it to make it easier to run the wire through.

Now for the two pictures above be careful as the panels pop out normally but slide them back first and work it out as it sit under that plastic side piece by the seat.

Now for one of tricky parts you should note, the kick panels...

Behind my finger there is a t-25 or t-20 screw behind there holding the panel in place, just like you'll find at the bottom. Its not visible at all as you can see, so you've been warned...

Now wiring in the processor from the side panel will be much easier with glovebox out of the way.

First just pop off this panel under the glovebox, very easy just pull down on the front, three clips in front and the same in the back. This is what your left with.

Now un-screw from all these spots, two spots have plastic in front that needs to be popped off the same as the little plastic tabs covering the screw on the door by the handle.

and dont forget the three on the bottom uncovered by that plastic piece you popped off.

now...
This is the wholeleft by the glovebox

The side panel is easy too, the long piece running from the armrest to the front can be slid down and out of the way, it is attached to the side panel covering so be careful with it though.

Then the actual side piece has a tree at the front, just pop it straight out. Then on the closer side it has one more, but instead of popping it out I just pulled down and slid it out that way.

 

[flomofo]

Now here some pics on how to remove the plug with all the audio harnesses on it.

Just grab the clip at the bottom like this...

and then lift up and it should start popping out, then just pull it out. Remember you will have to push it in with that handle up to line it up with the notch in the mounting area, then force it down and it will click into place. (let it make noises until its done after clicking it back in)

Now you just use the wiring diagrams provided again on places like g8board.com to wire in whatever device your using for oem integration and your done. Heres how I wired mine.

I put mine under the passenger seat and will include some pics of that as well. I ran my rca's, remote wire etc. for the processor through the hole for the a/c vent under the seat.

Then all done up here...

 

[flomofo]

The trunk is just temporary for now, but heres a few pics. I just used the factory ground, but made sure to get it to bare metal.

You guys have no idea how deep this tub is!!! Its the biggest one I've ever seen and the car doesn't even come with a spare in the higher trim.

The last one is me pissed off and attempting to diagnose a noise problem I couldn't track down...I just lowered the gain on my re-q5 until it wasn't audible anymore, what a gremlin nothing worked. Alt whine from engine is louder at times than it was over the speakers anyway.

And here's how I did my tweeters.

 

[Big_Valven]

Nice work, I like the tweeters. Good to see an Australian car getting the attention it deserves over there The VEs do have a lot of problems with noise... and no one has any quick-fix answers...

 

[flomofo]

A total gremlin, and a new alternator and extra battery seem like they might help, but not an option right now lol.

The rest of this car is so much more than I thought I could get however, so I am more than happy to just deal with that. Especially with all the room I have to work with in the trunk. Got this one for only a few more thousand than my civic si.

Plus I saw a police car version was developed as a replacement for the crown vic. It would be weird driving the crap out of the same car at work and then "babying" my car at the local autocross lol.

Thx for your post on your car too, it helped when I shopping for a gto

 

[Maddman]

Nice car. Look forward to seeing more installation pics.

 

[JayHRC51]

What C class you got in there?

 

[flomofo]

2002 c230 coupe kompressor with evolution package.

Was ordered before they even hit shores here.

Its a pain in the ass, I don't know how to take it apart and when it was newer I was told it uses fiber optics for the radio and blah blah blah.

I'm hoping since it as the basic tape deck and no cd option or changer that I can figure out how to replace the radio or keep it and run something like the re-q5 to put in some basic aftermarket speakers and amp for my girlfriend the owner.

 

[Pseudonym]

ugh that car should not be sold without a man-pedal.

 

[abonablesnobeast415]

nice setup

 

[flomofo]

Well it is but I can't afford it, and a man pedal won't make me buy an inferior car to what I want.

 

[danno]

you can change the headunit in that c-class....i've done them before...they even make a dashkit for those!

 

[tusk]

Another Holden brother

Keep the pics comming!

 

[sotelomichael]

looks good man!

 

[BLD MOVS]

Great car! Are there paddle shifters?

 

[rockinridgeline]

Love that car. I checked out a G8 GXP at a new car show last weekend. Sexy and powerful. Hmmmm. May be my next ride after I sell my 69 Mustang.

 

[BLD MOVS]

after I sell my 69 Mustang.

ygpm

 

[Hillbilly SQ]

Looking good. Sure am glad you didn't show a pic of those mids I sent ya. They aren't exactly minty:blush:

 

[flomofo]

Not minty but they work, this is as low budget as I can do a system for until I get my career started.