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long time followers of us here on diyma can prolly see the progressions of our builds as a company, going from a one man show in my garage to a brick and motar shop, adding lines of products and tools along the way, not to mention having the incredible skills of JOey on hand...but perhaps the biggest progression over the past coupla years has been the growth of Jesse, aka killahsharksjc aka Loserobilt
He has always had the attention to detail (something i strongly believe you are either born with or you are not), but what kinda surprised both me and Joey is how fast he took to major fabrication...i would venture to say that he is for sure becoming more of a Joey than myself, with a more adventurous mind and the desire to do more complicated fab work while i tend to like to remain in my comfort zone and push the boundaries in a more evolutionary manner.
Most of you guys have seen a fair share of his work over the past year, and most of you would probably agree with me when i say that this year, i would like to nominate him for the Install of the Year challenge...i really do believe that not only does he deserve to be included in the top 100, but he should be in the top 50 or above...this is of course not saying that he is among the best 50 installers in the universe, but rather, based on what this award has been in the past, he imo, for sure deserves to be included.
So lately, i have been giving him more bigger jobs with VERY relaxed limitations to see what he can come up with; the idea being that these are the types of builds that will headline his bid for IOTY.
This brand new Tesla model S 90D, is for sure one of them.
The goals as i stated to Jesse before basically leaving him alone for the entire build:
1. achieve a nice level of sound quality while maintaining an oem appearance on the interior.
2. maintain a 100 percent stealth look in the hatch area
3. build a classy showy theme in the hatch to highlight not only the equipment, but also his skillset, but do it so in a way that is congruent with the SIS design theme.
So here is the result, the entire car other than the mosconi DSP controller mounting, was built by Jesse himself. IMO he could have done the controller mount as well, but JOey was here and we had to give the guy something to do!!!
so lets get started.
first a shot of the car itself, literally fresh off the assembly line less than 15 minutes away:
having worked on a P85D previously, i know that the stock signal source on the non premium system is quite decent, it is pretty flat except for a major drop off below 40hz...to make sure that the customer has the ability to listen to high resolution files while still maintaining a full bass response, we also decided to incorporate Mosconi's AMAS2 high defintion BT to Optical streaming module, so it can act as a secondary signal source which provides a truly flat signal to the system.
of course, this required the implementation of a Mosconi controller to act as master volume control when streaming, with the added benefit of being able to do change presets and subwoofer volume on the fly. Before even getting the car, i knew where the controller would go and the basic idea of how to mount it...so basically i communicated that concept to JOey, and had him go to work.
And of course, he came up with a very cool little curved pedastal to house the Mosconi RC-MINI controller, right infront of the stock center arm rest, within easy reach of the driver...here you see it in the interior and it is pretty unintrusive visually:
here are some build pics from joey. basically, the mount is a stacked fabricated set of acrylic, bonded together, that acts almost like a claw to hold the mosconi controller. here is joey making the first piece of acrylic off a wood template he designed:
several layers of routering later, we ended up wtih this:
then the mosconi controller's base plate was bolted to the acrylic, and the guts and top plate secured back on to test fit:
then filler was applied to fill in the gaps and sanded smooth:
then it was painted with SEM interior paint, the controller mounted, the cable ran through the factory panel on the front of the arm rest, and the whole thing snapped back into the car:
Moving onto the front stage. Again, our previous experiences with the Model S helped quite a bit...we already knew that a morel tweeter, with the mounting cups trimmed a certain way, can be secured to the factory pillar tweeter mounting in an almost oem way...and that is exactly what Jesse did with a set of MT350s:
For the stock top of the dash location, which is unoccupied in the non premium system, we went with a set of Illusion audio Carbon C3 midranges, these were hard to take pictures of due to the shape of the dash, but here is the best ones jesse was able to get:
for the door midbass, we went with a set of audiofrog's GB60 midbass. First jesse built a pair of adapter spacers for the speaker, coated them with several layers of truck bedline to protect them against the elements, and got them ready to bolt back into the car via oem hardware:
Then, jesse utilized what will become a new standard here at SIS, and that is Ferrules for termination of wiring on select projects. these little metal ends that can be crimped on to the end of wires ensure we dont have loose strands going all over the place, and while you wont see it on every single car, there are certain places, such into small speaker terminals or amps with small plug type terminals, where they will always be used. so here are set of ferrules on the speaker wires going into the AF GB60 midbass:
next, jesse ran new speaker wires into the door, full sound proofed the door panel with GP audio composite damper, and bolted in the adapter and midbass:
the outer door card also received its share of STP CLD damper to help with resonance:
the process was then repeated on the passenger side:
so that is pretty much it for the interior, now comes some wiring pics that show the fuse holder upfront next tot he 12v battery, and wiring bundles as they travel from the front of the car to the back, ziptied and organized every few inches:
Most of you guys have seen a fair share of his work over the past year, and most of you would probably agree with me when i say that this year, i would like to nominate him for the Install of the Year challenge...i really do believe that not only does he deserve to be included in the top 100, but he should be in the top 50 or above...this is of course not saying that he is among the best 50 installers in the universe, but rather, based on what this award has been in the past, he imo, for sure deserves to be included.
So lately, i have been giving him more bigger jobs with VERY relaxed limitations to see what he can come up with; the idea being that these are the types of builds that will headline his bid for IOTY.
This brand new Tesla model S 90D, is for sure one of them.
The goals as i stated to Jesse before basically leaving him alone for the entire build:
1. achieve a nice level of sound quality while maintaining an oem appearance on the interior.
2. maintain a 100 percent stealth look in the hatch area
3. build a classy showy theme in the hatch to highlight not only the equipment, but also his skillset, but do it so in a way that is congruent with the SIS design theme.
So here is the result, the entire car other than the mosconi DSP controller mounting, was built by Jesse himself. IMO he could have done the controller mount as well, but JOey was here and we had to give the guy something to do!!!
so lets get started.
first a shot of the car itself, literally fresh off the assembly line less than 15 minutes away:
having worked on a P85D previously, i know that the stock signal source on the non premium system is quite decent, it is pretty flat except for a major drop off below 40hz...to make sure that the customer has the ability to listen to high resolution files while still maintaining a full bass response, we also decided to incorporate Mosconi's AMAS2 high defintion BT to Optical streaming module, so it can act as a secondary signal source which provides a truly flat signal to the system.
of course, this required the implementation of a Mosconi controller to act as master volume control when streaming, with the added benefit of being able to do change presets and subwoofer volume on the fly. Before even getting the car, i knew where the controller would go and the basic idea of how to mount it...so basically i communicated that concept to JOey, and had him go to work.
And of course, he came up with a very cool little curved pedastal to house the Mosconi RC-MINI controller, right infront of the stock center arm rest, within easy reach of the driver...here you see it in the interior and it is pretty unintrusive visually:
here are some build pics from joey. basically, the mount is a stacked fabricated set of acrylic, bonded together, that acts almost like a claw to hold the mosconi controller. here is joey making the first piece of acrylic off a wood template he designed:
several layers of routering later, we ended up wtih this:
then the mosconi controller's base plate was bolted to the acrylic, and the guts and top plate secured back on to test fit:
then filler was applied to fill in the gaps and sanded smooth:
then it was painted with SEM interior paint, the controller mounted, the cable ran through the factory panel on the front of the arm rest, and the whole thing snapped back into the car:
Moving onto the front stage. Again, our previous experiences with the Model S helped quite a bit...we already knew that a morel tweeter, with the mounting cups trimmed a certain way, can be secured to the factory pillar tweeter mounting in an almost oem way...and that is exactly what Jesse did with a set of MT350s:
For the stock top of the dash location, which is unoccupied in the non premium system, we went with a set of Illusion audio Carbon C3 midranges, these were hard to take pictures of due to the shape of the dash, but here is the best ones jesse was able to get:
for the door midbass, we went with a set of audiofrog's GB60 midbass. First jesse built a pair of adapter spacers for the speaker, coated them with several layers of truck bedline to protect them against the elements, and got them ready to bolt back into the car via oem hardware:
Then, jesse utilized what will become a new standard here at SIS, and that is Ferrules for termination of wiring on select projects. these little metal ends that can be crimped on to the end of wires ensure we dont have loose strands going all over the place, and while you wont see it on every single car, there are certain places, such into small speaker terminals or amps with small plug type terminals, where they will always be used. so here are set of ferrules on the speaker wires going into the AF GB60 midbass:
next, jesse ran new speaker wires into the door, full sound proofed the door panel with GP audio composite damper, and bolted in the adapter and midbass:
the outer door card also received its share of STP CLD damper to help with resonance:
the process was then repeated on the passenger side:
so that is pretty much it for the interior, now comes some wiring pics that show the fuse holder upfront next tot he 12v battery, and wiring bundles as they travel from the front of the car to the back, ziptied and organized every few inches: