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lately, it seems a lot of our friends shops have gotten to work on the brand new 2014 Chevy Silverado, the beautiful example done by Musicar NW posted here is a good example...thankfully, thanks to a very cool customer, we did not have to feel left out 
The goals for this pristine NON Bose example was pretty simple:
1. achieve a nice level of sound quality based off the stock headunit on a relatively modest budget
2. maintain a totally stealth and oem appearance on the interior
3. Add a lil cosmetic flair to the underseat subenclosure that looks "custom yet oem"
lets get started:
first up is a custom welded metal fuse holder bracket for a single stinger 0 gauge fuse holder:
here is the holder and the painted bracket close up:
as mentioned before, the stock signal source was maintained, and as it turned out, the oem non bose headunit had a pretty flat output and did not feature much dynamic EQ at all
Otherwise, the only modification upfront was a Mosconi remote bass knob integrated into the left side switch panel:
With the truck running a mosconi 6ot8v8 DSP, all tuning can be done from the front seat via a BT enabled laptop:
The front stage consists of a set of Morel Virtus 602 two way components, the midbass was installed in the stock lower door location.
first, new speaker wires were run into the doors:
then, the outter door panel was sound proofed with some blackhole tile, while STP cld damper went on selective areas on the inner door:
then i made up the adapter spacer baffles for both the door speakers and the dash mounted tweeters by match routering the oem speaker brackets and coated them with several layers of truck bedliner to weather proof them:
the midbass baffles were then mounted to the door using oem hardware:
and the morel virtus 6.5" midbass secured:
a foam FAST ring was then attached to the speaker mounting baffle:
the outter door skin also received some CLD damper to help with resonance:
the same procedure was then repeated on the other side:
then the morel tweeters were mounted to the baffles i had fabricated:
and then bolted to the car using oem hardware:
thus completing the front stage. next are a few pictures of the wiring signal wiring bundle as they are routed from the front to the back of the car, since the amps are located on the driver side back wall, all these cables are run down the driver side. they are ziptied and organized and embedded in the stock wiring channels:
The goals for this pristine NON Bose example was pretty simple:
1. achieve a nice level of sound quality based off the stock headunit on a relatively modest budget
2. maintain a totally stealth and oem appearance on the interior
3. Add a lil cosmetic flair to the underseat subenclosure that looks "custom yet oem"
lets get started:
first up is a custom welded metal fuse holder bracket for a single stinger 0 gauge fuse holder:

here is the holder and the painted bracket close up:


as mentioned before, the stock signal source was maintained, and as it turned out, the oem non bose headunit had a pretty flat output and did not feature much dynamic EQ at all

Otherwise, the only modification upfront was a Mosconi remote bass knob integrated into the left side switch panel:

With the truck running a mosconi 6ot8v8 DSP, all tuning can be done from the front seat via a BT enabled laptop:

The front stage consists of a set of Morel Virtus 602 two way components, the midbass was installed in the stock lower door location.
first, new speaker wires were run into the doors:

then, the outter door panel was sound proofed with some blackhole tile, while STP cld damper went on selective areas on the inner door:

then i made up the adapter spacer baffles for both the door speakers and the dash mounted tweeters by match routering the oem speaker brackets and coated them with several layers of truck bedliner to weather proof them:


the midbass baffles were then mounted to the door using oem hardware:

and the morel virtus 6.5" midbass secured:

a foam FAST ring was then attached to the speaker mounting baffle:


the outter door skin also received some CLD damper to help with resonance:

the same procedure was then repeated on the other side:







then the morel tweeters were mounted to the baffles i had fabricated:

and then bolted to the car using oem hardware:


thus completing the front stage. next are a few pictures of the wiring signal wiring bundle as they are routed from the front to the back of the car, since the amps are located on the driver side back wall, all these cables are run down the driver side. they are ziptied and organized and embedded in the stock wiring channels:




