95 Eclipse Father/Son Project

[sefugi 166]

I've been checking out the forum for a week or so and have seen and read about some realyy cool stuff and I wanted to share some of what my son and I have been working on. This is a car that I purchased for he and I to spend some time together and express some of our passion for the audio and car world. What I plan to show is a somewhat complete project but includes our stereo install as well as the complete project. So here goes....

Edited May 1, 2010 by sefugi

[sefugi 166]

These are a few pics so you can see what we sarted with:

[woodskilla 0]

are you going to 4g63 it?

[sefugi 166]

are you going to 4g63 it?

Naw this is for my 16 year old and we decided that his non-experience with driving it might not be that good of an idea. I have offered to him that as he gets older and maybe gets a job if he likes the car that I would split the cost if he wanted to turbo it later. Thanks for askin'

[Sir-Lancelot 216]

Cool man.

I wish my old man had some of the same hobbies as I did growing up. Maybe some of my children will.

Keep those pics coming~!

[sefugi 166]

Here is our work on adding some sound deadening as a start... Used Fatmat Sound Deadener Products FatMat Dynamat Xtreme Alternative

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[sefugi 166]

Maybe I'll get this picture stuff figured out...

[Sir-Lancelot 216]

Maybe I'll get this picture stuff figured out...

Resize them for either a 15 or 17" monitor.

[deernet 6]

Looks great so far man!

[sefugi 166]

Cool man.

I wish my old man had some of the same hobbies as I did growing up. Maybe some of my children will.

Keep those pics coming~!

My wife hates it most of the time but but my son has the advantage that the old man loves cars and has enjoyed car stereo for years.

I was involved with USAC for a couple of years. Had a Escort GT with 8-12" JL's being pushed with the old Pheonix M series amps. Best DB in outlaw was 150-151 but that was a long time ago.

[Sir-Lancelot 216]

Cool man.

I wish my old man had some of the same hobbies as I did growing up. Maybe some of my children will.

Keep those pics coming~!

My wife hates it most of the time but but my son has the advantage that the old man loves cars and has enjoyed car stereo for years.

I was involved with USAC for a couple of years. Had a Escort GT with 8-12" JL's being pushed with the old Pheonix M series amps. Best DB in outlaw was 150-151 but that was a long time ago.

Welcome to the club. My wife hates it too. In fact she is really going to hate it if I listen to that inner voice that wants to dump the third row seats and add 2 more 18's. lol

[sefugi 166]

Here are some pics of the beginnings of the power setup and cleaning up of the engine compartment.

By sefugi at 2010-05-01

By sefugi at 2010-05-01

[emh9009 199]

what are you going to put in it, speaker/amp wise?

[sefugi 166]

This will be the layout for the engine:

Stock bottom end

Head Machined- new exhaust valves(old ones screwed)

OBX intake manifold

MSD coil

New water pump Timing Belt Tensioner and Idler

Complete Exhaust-Header,Downpipe,Freeflow cat. out to 4" Muffler

HPS Cold Air

By sefugi at 2010-05-01

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[stocks 2]

for a first car.. damn! looks great. don't understand all the bright colors in the engine bay but that's what the metric crowd does.. what do you have in mind for sound to take your mind off a 4" pipe drone?

[sefugi 166]

what are you going to put in it, speaker/amp wise?

Since we are trying to do this on a somewhat prefigured buget, my son decided on mostly Soundstream components. Sooooooo-

Cheap Headunit-TV-Veiw 7" Screen

Amps for Mids and Highs- 2 Soundstream D-Tower DTR4.500

Amps for Subs - 2 Soundstream D-Tower DTR1.2200

Front Speakers 1 Oxygen AIR2.63 3-Way

Rear Speakers 1 Oxygen Air2.203 8" Coaxial

Subs 1 Soundstream T5-15

2 Soundstream T5-10

Batteries Front-Redtop Optima

Rear -2 Kinetiks KHC600

CapCell 1 Soundstream SCELL-1000

After joining this forum I have realized that these choices may not have been the best, but they are ours now and the project is in progress. Sooooo-We will live with them for now and in the future possibly make changes.

[sefugi 166]

for a first car.. damn! looks great. don't understand all the bright colors in the engine bay but that's what the metric crowd does.. what do you have in mind for sound to take your mind off a 4" pipe drone?

Yes it does have a 4" pipe drone as you call it but when we first cranked it this was my son...

By sefugi at 2010-05-01

Courtesy of cranberryyumyum

[emh9009 199]

haha that is a great post ^^ i saw that kid lip singing something on youtube, was crackin up.

[ssh 924]

Car is looking awesome, cool to hear a father and son build

Wish my dad was into car audio, but at least were able to dirtbike and 4x4 together haha

[j-roadtatts 1,129]

The build is lookin' titts, keep up the good work.

[sefugi 166]

Had to do something about these factory speakers, not very appealing...

By sefugi at 2010-05-02

Decided to remove and modify to fit in a set of tweeters.

By sefugi at 2010-05-02

Pulled the original grille from the frame and cut hole for tweet

By sefugi at 2010-05-02

Resined to build up a surface that could be sanded and painted

By sefugi at 2010-05-02

By sefugi at 2010-05-02

By sefugi at 2010-05-02

Installed tweets to grille and reinstalled to dash. Looks mo better

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By sefugi at 2010-05-02

[j-roadtatts 1,129]

Sweet!!! the tweeters look clean.

[sefugi 166]

haha that is a great post ^^ i saw that kid lip singing something on youtube, was crackin up.

Me too, first time I saw it I was rollin'

[sefugi 166]

Car is looking awesome, cool to hear a father and son build

Wish my dad was into car audio, but at least were able to dirtbike and 4x4 together haha

Thanks! Spendin' time together is always great no matter what we're doing, right?

[sefugi 166]

Sweet!!! the tweeters look clean.

Thanks, I've checked out your build and for you to say they look clean, I definatly Thank You!