WITHOUT FURTHER ADEU.... OUR INSTALL

The beginning...
This is it! 70 trophies so far, 3 time World Finalist and SQ baby!

CHARGE SYSTEM

Charge system overview. Phoenix Gold Isolator with Plexi cover
visible and GM 100amp alternator. Charge leads were steel braided for protection.
Front battery with Power Puck covers and Plexi cover visible.
Hose is fresh air duct.
Rear battery enclosure. It has fans for venting to outside and plexi window on top. Again, notice the hand made Rockford Fosgate logo.

MULTIMEDIA

My sweet 9" color TV
Changer before...
Changer after.

Center of center console containing a DEI Preamp/parametric EQ, Oscilloscope, Ammeter and the Coustic XM-3E's remote sub gain control. A plexiglass cover is visible.
Back part of the center console housing the Audio Control EQL. Plexi cover keeps fingers off.

Trunk and amps

A system diagram, lines and borders are done in Chameleon paint so they change colors as you walk by. Screws are Alan head type (same as rest of install)
Diagram lit up. Doesn't look this orange in person camera wasn't right.
Amp rack with neon on with and without flash.

WALL

Rear view of wall, fiberglass was used to follow side of
car and roofline.
This is the wall in the car. Please also note the RF in the ROOF of the car.
an attempted view in to see the wall head on. you can see the red triangles at the bottom. those are just decoration. There is a light bar in the middle, that is NOT a port.
you can see that it is actually 2 Vs

DOORS

Took the door panel off to rebuild it for the door pods.
These are the completed frames. The speaker trimpanel stapled and glued, along the outside edge. The handle has the cutout and outside edge routered to round edges. You might be able to see the wires we strung between the baffle and the handle to help hold the wrapping material off the surface between. This allow the airspace between the baffle all the way to the handle to all be used for airspace.
We wrapped these in a cotton polyester blend. You may be able to see a marker circle on the material where We had to put a few stitches in to pull the material down to the 'low side' of the baffle board.
The first layer of resin is applied. In the picture before and in this one you might be able to make out some black stripes under the material. This is a taped up bundle of poly fill to give further body to the slender portion of the door pod.
We put 3 layers of glass mat on in doing sanding work between layers.
Here we finished the glassing and sanding. We routered out the fiberglass that was hanging over the baffle board. The speaker fits with it's magnet hanging threw the back about 1/2 to 3/4"
Here we're heating up the big ends to apply V-block to the insides better. We wanted to nip any nasty resonances in the bud.
Wrapped. We used a glue gun on the foam pad(headliner material). And we stapled the tweed down on the back after we stretched the form
The big end view. You may be able to see where we stitched the seams of tweed together. Just not possible to make tweed cover a shape like this without a seam.
Here you should see the small posts we put on the door and the slots we cut on the base of the pod. We place the pod on the door and slide back into place so it secures the back portion of the pod without visible screws. The only screws needed are underneath the sub.
We poly filled the enclosure to prevent odd reflections. You can see my "Vintage" brand 12 gauge wires hanging out.
You may be able to see the alan screws over washers that hold the driver in place.
The grill is basically another trimplate like above except wrapped in grillcloth and it has a plexi panel epoxy'd on the backside, this plexi panel has lots of holes drilled in it.
Door closed so you can see the grills of the kick and door side by side.
Getting ready to install the insert. we used headless brads in a air gun to mount these down. (same way we did it on my kicks)
The finished product.

KICKS

Got some Kickpanels from the junkyard to do this project without screwing up the factory panels. Masonite was to make it stronger. The back is soaked in fiberglass resin. You have a view of the back, the cutouts for the door handle latch and the speaker magnet should be visible. It's wrapped in black tweed with a light padding underneath.
we wrapped it in a cotton Polyester blend
Ready for resin.
Finish first layer of resin.
3 layers thick in glass mat and resin.
Foam pad. We used landou top glue, strong stuff!
Tweed wrapped.
Wrapped tweed insert, Altec Lansing tweet is elsewhere now.
Fanatic Q's, Note the size of the 5.25's magnet as compared to the hole the driver is mounted in! And vented pole piece. This thing rocks!

The end of the install!