We started this car a long time ago, (thread located here) . But we're just now going to finish it up.

The system consists of:

Alpine 7998
Edi 6500s
Nine.4
11Ov.2
Nine.2x

Onto the pix:

The victim, and the proud owner.



Stock speaker location



Stock headunit



The beautiful 7998 box



11Ov.2



Nice and solid



Nine.2x



Unpacking the nine.4



Nine.4

 

Were thinking of mounting them over here somewhere.



Not 100% sure. We thought about mounting them on one of the walls in the T-Top well, but there isn't enough room.



First up, we need to hook this thing in. Installing the deck in this car required a dash kit, wiring harness, and antenna adapter.



Deck came with everything originally included.



We begin with the wiring harness for the car and the wiring harness for the deck.



Weapon of choice for connecting wires. Soldering gun, and solder.



Slide on a piece of heatshrink, then twist the wires together so they look like one straight wire. Then use the soldering gun to heat up the wire and touch the solder to it until it flows through the connection.



After allowing the solder to cool, slide the heatshrink over the exposed metal and heat it up to securely insulate the connection.



I finished off the harness with some techflex. The exposed wire is the remote turn on for the amplifiers.



The first step to putting the deck into the car is to pop off this trim piece. Use a screw driver to remove the 4 poppers in each corner.



Be gentle, you don't want to crack this piece.

 

Next, remove the 3 hex bolts.



Disconnect the harness and antenna adapter from the rear and it pops right out.



This is the stock harness that the harness we created earlier plugs into.



Attached.



Next step was to mod the dash kit so that it fit. We began with cutting off the extra munting brackets.



Then we cut off the inner brackets.



Then we used an extremely sharp razor to clean up the cuts. We'll come back to the deck later, for now, thats all you get.





Next task was to run the 0awg to the back of the car. We connected it to the battery using a soldered 0awg ring terminal. The process of doing this is outlined in the big *** project thread. We had to cut off the red rubber protective boot on the stock connector to fit the ring.



We mounted the fuse next to the strut tower. It is a little far away from the battery, but there is absolutley nothing that could hurt it between the battery and it, so we felt it was acceptable.




After running it through a grommet on the passenger side, we ran it up the passenger side door sill and out onto the rear deck.



Next step was to remove the amplifier that the previous owner installed. It is hooked up to the stock speakers using the loc in the amp.



A couple of screws



A few wires and the fuse



And its out.

 

Last nights update:


Generally, you should put some type of loom over any wire in the engine compartment. We started by putting it on and zip tieing.



Then we trimmed the excess, and taped the ends.



Next, we turned our attention to the inside of the car. We begain by hooking up the RCA cables and antenna adapter.



Next we neatly bundled them after we...



...taped the antenna adapter.



Then we made sure the cage was locked into the dash kit very tightly.



And installed.







Then we routed the RCAs to the drivers side of the car



Bundled them together.



And ran them up along the door sill



Out the back.



Then we saw this son of a *****. This thing was fricken huge.



Next we turned our attention to the doors. Remove all of the following screws.

 

Then pop out the buttons, and the trim piece around the handle.



Then take off the sail panel.



Lift up and out, and you can see this.



Next, we remove the 3 hex screws holding it.



Disassemble it by the wood.



And trace.



The perfect baffle. Hopefully, its not too thick.



And for those interested, 6500s vs stock.



To be continued...

 

"to be continued..."

u suck....hurry up an post the rest!!! im itchin to see the rest of the project. the way u posted makes it look very easy, with pics to help the reading-impaired (like myself).

good job so far!

 

Damn dude, that's a lot of work!

 

Oooh can't wait for the sage to continue. I bet that system will sound amazing when it's done.

 

. . .and Then? ? ?

 

Alright, my picture host seems to have died, I'll wait a few hours and see if it comes back, if not I'll figure something out.

I have a whole new round I need to upload too.

 

Decided to switch hosts today, the new plan should be up by tommorow, then I'll continue with the pix.

 

Try using www.tinypic.com

You can host pics and videos there, it easy to use and you dont have to setup an account to host pics/vid

Oh BTW, you could'v gotten the the nine.1 amp with 4ohm DVC 11ov.2's, wire them for a 2ohm load for each one making a total load of 1ohms, they'd be getting 600 watts each, they can handle that much with no problems too.

 

Pix are up

 

First up, get the midwoofers mounted. Here is a revised spacer, we weren't able to use the trace of the stock speaker because it wasn't lined up with the hole on the door.



Mounted



I thought I had way more deadener left over than I did, so we only did around the ring and inside the door. More is coming in the mail.



Door panel back on.



Cut off the head on the stock wires.



Wrap wires around edi terminals



Solder



Securely screw the speaker in.

 

Place the grill on



Don't worry, black screws are on the to buy list.




Next, time to do something about the amp rack.



Mounting bracket for the amp.



Glue on



Then screw the amps in. The board is velcroed down now, but it will be bolted down soon, once we figure out a way to do it.



Next, we have some wires that need to be hooked up.



First the power.



This is how a compression terminal works. Tuck the wires over the top.



Then just screw it in.



Don't forget to secure the distro block.



Next we figure out how were going to ground it.



Sand the paint

 

Screw em down. This is over the drivers side wheel well.



Power, Ground, and RCAs hooked up



Anyone else notice anything weird about these? The wires were just hooked up here for a test listen



Unfortunatley, the batteries on the cam started to die, and we didn't have the charger, so we backed off on the pictures to make sure there would be some power left for the end.

Here is everything hooked up, including the crossovers.



There will be a carpeted beauty board that goes over this. It will flow right into the rear cover.



A view of the tweeter and mid.



Just the tweeter, attached with double sided tape. Anyone else have a REALLY hard time getting the retaining ring to snap down?



Next update will be the completion update.

 

looking good!!

 

What's the reasoning for the tweeter location?

Looks good. I assume the rear window is heavily tinted? Or will there be some sort of cover over the top. Don't drill in to the gas tank

Btw.. Takes lots of patience to snap all those pics as you're doing it. Good job.

 

Holy pictures! Nice.

Everything seems to be going good. Cant wait to see the end result.

-ty1er

 

Clean!