finally done with my exams and i can start work on the car.

objectives : a "budget" active system as stealthy as possible

nothing much at first. progress is very slow because of some family "issues" keeping me away...

first up, mounting the head unit (alpine 9813 i found locally) :

dash ripped apart, so i can fabricate some brackets to hold the hu in place

head unit running the stock speakers...just a quick test before the end of the day

decided to run all the wires before fabricating the brackets. space is very tight behind the head unit and i hope i can arrange the RCA's by pulling them lightly while pushing the head unit in the dash...

6 RCA cable's running on the passenger side...these were a steal, at 50$ for 90ft

i still need to solder the plugs on each end and arrange them under the carpet

"welding wire - a legend in sound"

cheap, yet flexible

ordering deadening tomorrow (only for all the 4 doors atm)

hopefully i can prepare the doors before my mids arrive and compare "stock" doors to deadened doors with the stock speakers

at first, I was like holy shit, why would he have a 180 mph speedo

then I realized it's kmh

lookin good, keep the pics coming

Very nice , you have great taste in head units

Speakers and scope, along with other little goodies are on their way.

updates :

soldered the rca plugs on the ends inside the dash.

decided to mount both the amps under the front seats but that means i need 90degree plugs. aside from difficulty in setting the gains and wiring them up, anything bad with mounting the amps under the seats ?

finished the bracket. it wasn't a big deal, but getting all the wires in was not cool

the head unit and dash will go in place once eveything is wired up. i don't want to take apart all the plastics and mess with the wires too much.

as far as the substage...i think i will copy JL's grand cherokee stealth box.

lots of things to do before the substage...it's at the bottom of the list

at first, I was like holy chit, why would he have a 180 mph speedo

then I realized it's kmh

lookin good, keep the pics coming

the pic doesn't show, but the speedo goes all the way to 200

it's the "race" version.

thanks again Aaron. can't wait for the stuff to get here

Nope, nothing wrong with putting amps under the seats

Copy and improve. Nice.

My favorite line out of any thread on here lately, "lots of things to do before the substage...it's at the bottom of the list"

today's updates :

removed passenger seat, so i can run the rca's under it.

pic taken before i ran the speaker cables for the right side :

one of my trusty helpers :

i hope to run some 4ga from the amps to the distro (thanks again Tom ) tomorrow

my front stage arrived today, big thanks to Aaron

seas H1396 and mach 5 mli

also got ~30 sqft of deadener which will go on the floor.

stock deadening ?

looks very weird, i'll just cover it up with some "aftermarket" deadener

lookin good gonna be nice after all is done

stock deadening ?

looks very weird, i'll just cover it up with some "aftermarket" deadener

I think it'd be better if you stick the deadener to the metal rather than over the stock stuff

turns out that crap deadening was not stock and was glued over bolts and plugs. i removed as much as i could.

finished deadening the floor today. only 1 layer though. i doubled it up where the metal sounded really hollow.

driver's side

here you can see some of the crap deadening that was reluctant to get off the metal.

passenger side firewall. i decided to go with small strips because i had trouble keeping the carpet out of the way so i had to apply the mat one-handed

one of the treasures hidden under the old mat

Looking really good man!! I need to pull out my seats so I can do my floor. Looking forward to seeing the finish product!

Jon

the parts of the seat that move while adjusting go down low enough to touch the amps, scratching them. so i decided to glue some strips of seatbelt material to retain some adjustability and protect the paint

mostly done with wiring and such (i still need to run 1/0 from the battery to the distro.

i'm going to ground the amps on the bolt you can see sticking out from the floor.

in case some of you are wondering, the car is (and always was) black. there were some small rust spots on the floor, just where the bolts go and i had to fix things up. the primer is red. overall i'm pleased with the state of the floor, considering it's age

looks fimiliar.

install is coming along nicely

thanks Casey

updates :

got tight cleareance ?

door panel and stock speaker removed.

i thought about mounting the tweeters and came up with 2 places :

any ideas as to which place i should go for ? other placement ideas ?

the gallery has become very annoying. i'm uploading one pic and on the second one i get this error :

IPB WARNING [2] Division by zero (Line: 1477 of /modules/gallery/lib/gallery_library.php)

I would wait to mount the tweets until you get the mids in and are able to listen to both locations ( or maybe if different places if needed ) .

trying out the head unit and my new scope :

35 out of 35, 1kHz and 10kHz (don't ask which is which, i can't remember). is it me or it's not clipping ? felt kinda weird to not see something obvious when i went past 30

Looks like a little bit of clipping with the three pixels at the top of the peak side by side like that