Sow how about some of the tedious stuff? Here's the removal of much of the interior for sound deadening and some wiring.

 

For the door panels, I used a combination of 3M DumDum and GB Duct sealant in all of the joints/crevises along with the usual Dynamat and Jute padding for deading and reducing noise floor.

 

Subscribed

 

The 5.25" mids are going in the kicks so this oem fuse box and hood release lever have to be relocated I pulled any and all slack available from the runs leading to the rear of the car, and after a few hours of agony was able to clean up the drivers kick area nicely.

Before

While we're in this area, might as well show where the dual 1ga 12v leads come through the firewall

Fuse box and lever now located higher up under the dash

And the kicks already for masking and glassing at a later date

 

The runs to the trunk.... tiedowns pre-drilled and screwed every 5" or so

 

woah! good start to what reads as a large and promising project!! nice work!

 

Scrizzled

 

Hmm where should we go next? I guess we'll stay up front and work our way back. So here is the front soundstage comprising of a 7-5-tweet, fully active 3way.

Here is the prep for the 7" F#1 (ScanSpeak) midbass. Nothing too fancy here. I simply used 3 sheets of 1/4" abs plastic all CA glued together to from a 3/4" mounting baffle which is adhered to the inner door skin with RTV black. Stainless steel screws were used to mount the driver which protude all the way through the door skin's metal. This essentially sandwiches the abs baffle and has worked well for me in the past.


Before:

 

12ga midbass wiring... Got lucky on the passenger side

This is how they were mounted for the better part of the year... Sound deadening came later on

 

Just recently got a chance to finally finish up sealing the inner door skin. I didn't use much CLD here, mostly CCF to create the moisture barrier instead of the nasty oem plastic sheet

 

So how about some fabrication already!!?? Ok ok,let's tackle the kicks!

 

Mounting baffles for the mids as well as the grill inserts and tweets (tweets will be located in the A pillars and pictured later.

I added a chamfer on the back side of the baffe so the mids would have a little breathing room

 

Grizzles for the mids

No heat gun needed here! Just a nice sunny 90+ degree day and you're golden! Yes, you WILL sweat profusely, but it's worth it in the end

Foam paper...I love this stuff!

 

Great build. Great attention to detail. I'm anal retentive too so it's nice to know I'm not the only one.

Shane

 

great work!!!

tuned in for sure!

 

Very nice fabrication skills. I am envious of your PG amps!

 

You've got some brass balls moving the fuse box. I would be worried I would start a fire in some unknown way.
Looks awesome so far. Like the vinyl wrap on the kicks. Very nice.

 

Moving a fuse panel is about as easy as it can get. far easier than fabricating many things.
Its just a matter of removing a bunch of factory wire ties and brackets and finding space to flip it up out of the way.
Ive done in on several hondas ,toyota and Mitsubishi.

 

Yeah, moving the fuse box here wasn't too bad. Just time consuming. Now my Integra was a whole other animal. No room up under the dash in that vehicle so I had to extend all of the 67 or so wires in order to move the computer under the passenger seat :mean:

Thanks for the comps guys! More pics on the way!

 

Kicks continued... before color matching

The rear of the kicks are open to the factory carpet and along with this acoustic foam, it creates a quasi aperiodic vent to help cut down on resonance.

 

Props to you on some well integrated Kick panels. It bothers me when Kicks dont integrate well at all and look very out of place bc of poor planning
well done again

 

Here they are all finished up. They match much better to the naked eye, but I will redo them again when the weather warms up.

 

Nice job, man!

 

Thanks!


Gangnam Style!

 

Great job on the build log! I know you have a couple more pics to share

BTW, I heard ShawnK's system this summer when he stopped by during his visit down south. I heard the system pre-JBL W12's and I must say it blew me away. The staging was incredible and the mid-bass drivers kicked almost good enough to negate the need for subs. It was so loud and clean and I can't wait to hear it again w/ the subs!

Great job so far w/ the build log, I'm looking forward to seeing more!

-D

 

Thanks again D !! Looking foward to another visit next summer!

I love how the pics came out!

 

So let's finish off the the front soundstage with the F#1 tweets up in the Pillars

Two layers of light gray grill cloth made a nearly perfect match to the factory fabric.

 

I wanted to cover the tweets themselves in cloth so I had to get a little clever here. Some nice double sided Kent tape will do the trick!

 

Great gear & sharp install. I like that although you did some custom work you've still kept it relatively stock looking. Great job. Kudos on moving the fuse panel & wiring in the kicks. I know you've said it wasn't a big deal, but a lot of people wouldn't have even touched it. Sub'd for sure.

 

Thanks! I'm glad you pointed out how the esthetics blends in. I forgot to mention it in the intro, but this was another pretty important factor before I started the build. I know it's not completey "stealth", but I think it's still "stealthy". One would most likely not give a second glance just walking by.... which is what I'm after

Stay tuned to see how I modified the stock navi/radio to continue with the "stock" appearance... lot's and lot's of work