Recent content by swisstype

I have a Bel STI Driver. I have had passport and valentine in my otehr cars, and thsi is teh best I have seen ever. It is the absolute best when it comes to pulse. In states taht they dont allow radar detectors, they check for radar detector emmissions. This one is cased in Magnesium, and emits...

I have Polk Momo 6.5 components in front and rear. You must have got teh same deal I did at Crutchfiled. I used the flush mount cups they included and just used a hole saw to cut trhough were I wanted them. Here is a pic. Make sure you turn down the crossovers, as if you don't it is plenty brassy.

So overall, it wasn't too bad. I had to mount the crossovers IN the door! I couldn't find a place to mount them externally and still get the door panel on, so what I did was find a place to loceta them in between the panels in the door. Then I drilled couple holes and and a combination of...

Front door went in nicely, so no need to post a piocture to see what you already know. I did flushmount the tweeters in the rear. That was pretty easy and looks a whole lot better than surface mount.

OK... The speaker adapters that both Crutchfield sent as well as he adapters that came with teh Polk SPeakers were too much for teh front, so I directly mounted them to the tacotunes adapters. You will see this in the picture, sorta, and note that I made my tweeter adapters out of THICK MDF...

No tweeter adapters. I am making one for the front two to mount in place of the old. also, I am going to use a hole saw and flush mount the ones for the rear door speakers near the door handles. This isn't too bad to install overall. Mostly I have to break it up into pices to do this because...

Not the best pit here, but you can see the HU install. It looks like there is a gap on teh far side but that is a shadow. comments?

Here is what it will look like.

Next pic. I made washers out of dynamat for contact with teh speakers and teh adapters. I am using Tacotunes 6x9 to 6.5 adapters on the front. Nice! I put dynamat on teh rear of teh speaker adapter as well, where teh contact point is the speaker to teh adapter to teh tacotune. Here:

Netx pic is rear door with dynamat as well as teh speaker wire coming through. I am not leaving it there. I am just done for the day.

OK.... Dynamat in around the speaker holes. I figured this would provide a nice surface for the adapters, both front and back. I will take what I have left over and strategically place it where it goes best. It is weird riding around in a vehicle with no panels in the front. You hear everything...

I put my dynamat in and am letting it sit tonight. Am spending some time with the wife. I think the weekend should be about the time to finish. I have been taking pics!

[in best ed mcmahon voice] YOU ARE CORRECT! I am installing the 4 channel now, and if and when I decide to add a sub, I will remember that. I have installed a couple systems in my time, 2 for sure on my own, and I try to eliminate potential problems upfront, as opposed to trying to figure them...

OK... last one. Here is the dash all pulled out. I learned a couple things: 1)My spotlight is super hot and Wet Okoles can burn, fortunately, the jsut seemed to smoke, no marks! 2) All the extra BS they sent me fo rthe mounting kit was crap. I took the mounting brackets off the stock HU...

I ran pacth cables for amp to hu in these trays under the trim