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So, I guess I should finally put this on here.

First things first, my car was a theft recovery I picked up from my dad's work (he works for a local body shop) for $450. It's a 2004 Ford Focus SE 2.3l dark blue. I don't really know why but I don't have a pic of the car? Anyway, what do you do with a focus with 200,000 mi? Make it run of course... Lol needed a fuel pump. Sitting for almost a year and it seized, oh well. After that you do this...

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12" Fi bl on a Sundown 1500 v3. I then got rid of the factory speakers and installed some Alpine 5x7" in all four doors on a Hertz HCP4

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After getting further into this site, I realized rears were unnecessary and swapped the Alpines for these

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6 1/2" Crescendo CZ. Here they are installed

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So after so playing around for awhile, I finally got metered...

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Not too shabby :) so a year later I decided to upgrade. Just so happened to be when the Ethos were being released. So I contacted Q and got 2 12" ordered.

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Very excited now. After a little more back and forth with Q he came up with some box demensions for me.

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Here is the test fit. Works almost perfectly, I had to leave off the top and sneak it in.

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All put together and glued minus the top of course, with my little man pulling some kinda face? So now to power the Ethos I jumped on the Taramps bandwagon and ordered this

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3k Taramps HD. While awaiting all of my new goodies, I got ahold of Don at sds and did this

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Next I got the box painted with bed liner and the port blue. It was supposed to match the car but...

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Even after 3 coats it's too light, whatev... Now to get the subs in

An ass shot

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And with the top on and finished

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The wiring has since been changed around a bit and cleaned up. I'll have to get some more pics of the amp mounted and such. Which leads me to something I haven't mentioned. Factory underhood batt and alt. Shuriken bt-80 in the trunk, all 1/0 ga. With big 3. All run by a Pioneer 80prs.

That's it for now, gotta figure out a bigger and better front stage. With only a little effort from the Ethos I can make them almost non exsistent. I tried to keep it a sleeper stereo with unmodified door panels and things, but I don't think that will work if I ever want to unleash the Ethos to full potential. If I ever do meter again I'll post numbers.

Let me know if I missed anything I'm doing this late at night, brain function is slightly diminished ;)

Edited by puscifer2

man! That looks really good buddy! You could have gotten the 6500 for an even louder output! haha. Would just need to purchase an additional group 31. Which for price to perfomance, I'd grab the Sear plat series for about 220$. Install looks good man. 

Looks great. Makes me really anxious to get mine.

Nice equiptment! Build looks great so far!

Cool build.  Box looks great.

Looks good! What are the specs on the box?

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