Sound Installation

Well, I wouldn't really go as far as calling it a 'Sound Installation' since all I've done is build a subwoofer and thrown it in the back.
Nothing fancy, just basic stuff.
As well as it's my first car, it's my first subwoofer installation ever.
So far I'm pretty okay with it.
And I probably won't ever build a new one for this car.
But when I get my Skyline home you can rest assure it'll have a pretty decent sound to it...
...Even without the engine running :)

First of all I thought that I could use the subwoofer building to get some points for school by doing it as a special-project which gives 20 points.
I asked my special-project supervisor if it was okay to do that...
She went along with it...
One week before the project was due I though, well, I'm never gonna be able to get this done in that time.
So I did a written project instead.
Then I though, well, I should at least have it done before I get my drivers license (This was somewhere around late May or something like it.)
I had allready gotten a time for my written drivers license test on the 4th of June and I knew that three weeks after that I could expect a time for the real driving test.
I of course passed the written test without any problems and I got a time for my test somewhere around three weeks after that.
I thought that I should really begin working on the box and stuff...
...But of course I never got around to it.
I passed the driving test also.
And then I though that I should at least have it done before I join the military for a year.
I was set to join at the 26th of August.
And, finally, a week before that the installation is now done.

This is my head-unit.
It's a Pioneer P6300r.
I got this for my 18th birthday from my parents.
They were going to buy me a cheaper model at first...
...But luckily my dad ain't to good handeling salesmen :)

This is the way the trunkspace looked before I went about with the installation.
I originally had my mind set on making a fairly basic square(-ish) box, with the speaker pointing into the trunkspace.
But then I though that it might be cool if I point it into the car instead and use some plexi so that you could see it from inside the car.
I eventually decided to go with the later alternative.
So the first thing I had to do was remove the ski-hatch.
Unfortunatly I have no pictures of the trunk without the hatch, so just insert a random hole where you see the hatch on this pic and you'll get how it looked.

As you can see on the last pic the 'floor' of the trunk is a bit higher in by the seats.
This is where the huge fuel-tank goes.
So to make it look fairly decent I had to chose if I was going to make a small box that fits between the 'seat-wall' and where the floor goes down.
Or if I was going to make a larger box and find some way to make it look nice later on.
I chose the latter as the box would have to be very small to fit between the wall and where the bump goes down.
The box was pointing out from the edge with about 4"-5".
I had to make sort of a 'shelf' to make it look good.

This is what I did.
This is before I put the carpet on.
It's a really simple solution, yet it looked pretty good with the carpet on.
As you'll see later.

This is the actual speaker that's gonna go into the box at some point.
It's a MDS Dynamic Hi-Fi bass, or a MDS Dyn 12.1.
It's a 12", dual voice coil, 500W RMS speaker.
I really don't think that this bass was ment to ever be in the back of a car playing as much as it possibly can to bad hip-hop songs.
It was probably created for the more high-end systems, hence the name (Dynamic Hi-Fi.)
It was the most expensive subwoofer that MDS (Swedish comany by the way) offered when I bought this baby back in...2000 I think.
It was priced at around 300 bucks.

This is the amp that's meant to give the subwoofer it's power.
It's Legacys cheapest amp I think.
But I still think that it sounds good, so I really don't mind.

This is after I installed the plexi in the former ski hatch.
From the trunk-space it doesen't look to good, but from inside the car it looks great!