Phorte
20-10-2003, 12:24 PM
just spent almost a total of 24hrs (almost to the hour) working on my car's install. i got a 95 integra vti-r..
started yesterday, saturday, from 8:30am till 2:30am that evening, then today, sunday, from 10:30am till 4:30pm.
what we did?
my car came with a stereo install already which was quite shit. the deck's wiring loom had been spliced multiple times and all colours changed and pieces hanging everywhere. there was bundles n bundles of cabling everywhere, a lot weren't even used anymore. most of the wiring went through the door frame (along the bottom) into the boot where it all was. there was cables n cables n cables all in the boot, a lot of which had ends that weren't even connected anywhere. it was a mess!!
in total the system was a broken Pioneer deck, no front stage, and in the rear was Pioneer 6x9's, two Pioneer 2way GMX722 amps, and two 12" Pioneer Bullet/Premier series subs in a ported box.
so for saturday morning till around lunch time, we stripped out the interior of the car, firstly taking out both seats, then unplugged the equipment in the boot and taking out the rear seats. When we started untangling the cables we realised how much of a ****ed up job the previous owner had done. it was atrocious!!! at this stage we had removed the entire centre console and most of the front dash too and also the door lining.
my friend then began the process of resouldering all the ends of the wiring loom for the deck and also the one into the car, then soldered on little gold connectors that then went into those big white connectors so that both ends of the loom simply just click in via big white connectors.
i proceeded to clean out the doors. one door had a midbass driver and nothing else, the other door had half a tweeter and a crossover. interesting front stage hey? =) What we then realised was that only one door had a mount for the midbass driver.. by this time it was around 4pm.. we didnt have time to make up a custom mount out of MDF so i quickly went by to a local car audio store and purchased a premade MDF bracket whcih then bolted in perfectly, both for the hole in the door, and also providing sufficient depth for the driver without hitting the window when its rolled down..
we then used the new speaker cable to run underneath the carpet down the centre console from the front to the back. then we spent a total of 2.5hrs (yes............) having a huge problem of running the speaker cable into the doors. it was almost impossible.. we did this in the end using coathangers to guide the cables through and by the end of it was able to wire up the new splits into the doors, applied new plastic wrapping to protect the speakers/crossover from water inside the door, and just cable tied everything together.
that was the end of day 1.
then today we woke up and continued with the wiring of the amps and subs in the boot. we wired it all up and did a test run. the system sure did sound beautiful at this stage as we just spent over 15hrs just mucking with wire placement.
our boot install ended up being just the two amps on one side of the boot in the middle, screwed into the carpet/floor and the sub box on the right of it all up against the back seat in its box.
then it was the process of putting all seats back in, vacuum'ed like mad, cable tied absolutely everything (cable ties were our best friend all day long), and front bucket seats back in and voila!!
im still tuning the system but it sounds beautiful. the splits are absolutely supreme. the sub meets my previous 2x 12" Pioneer's and its just a single 12"!!!
apart from this though in a week's time we will have to out the interior again as my processor/equaliser will be arriving too and once this is in, i'll use the aux-in on it to run in my dvd/mp3/svcd/vcd player + 7.2" widescreen whcih i've had sitting here for over a fortnight now.
equipment now in my car:
Deck:
- Alpine 7876RB headunit
Front Stage:
- Dynaudio System 240 MKII 2-way component speakers
- powered by Audison LRx2.250 amplifier
Rear Stage:
- Pioneer 6x9's (from previous setup just for a little fill.. dunno model)
- this is running off the headunit
Bassy gutwrenching goodness:
- Infinity Kappa Perfect 12 subwoofer
- powered by Alpine MRV T757 amplifier
And to be installed in the next fortnight:
- Alpine ERA G320 processor/equaliser
- incar DVD/MP3/SVCD/VCD player + 7.2" widescreen LCD monitor.
pics to follow soon of final install.. we decided against taking pics of the process because we encountered so many hiccups that it was a nightmare and didnt really want pics to remind us of the troubles.. hehehe
started yesterday, saturday, from 8:30am till 2:30am that evening, then today, sunday, from 10:30am till 4:30pm.
what we did?
my car came with a stereo install already which was quite shit. the deck's wiring loom had been spliced multiple times and all colours changed and pieces hanging everywhere. there was bundles n bundles of cabling everywhere, a lot weren't even used anymore. most of the wiring went through the door frame (along the bottom) into the boot where it all was. there was cables n cables n cables all in the boot, a lot of which had ends that weren't even connected anywhere. it was a mess!!
in total the system was a broken Pioneer deck, no front stage, and in the rear was Pioneer 6x9's, two Pioneer 2way GMX722 amps, and two 12" Pioneer Bullet/Premier series subs in a ported box.
so for saturday morning till around lunch time, we stripped out the interior of the car, firstly taking out both seats, then unplugged the equipment in the boot and taking out the rear seats. When we started untangling the cables we realised how much of a ****ed up job the previous owner had done. it was atrocious!!! at this stage we had removed the entire centre console and most of the front dash too and also the door lining.
my friend then began the process of resouldering all the ends of the wiring loom for the deck and also the one into the car, then soldered on little gold connectors that then went into those big white connectors so that both ends of the loom simply just click in via big white connectors.
i proceeded to clean out the doors. one door had a midbass driver and nothing else, the other door had half a tweeter and a crossover. interesting front stage hey? =) What we then realised was that only one door had a mount for the midbass driver.. by this time it was around 4pm.. we didnt have time to make up a custom mount out of MDF so i quickly went by to a local car audio store and purchased a premade MDF bracket whcih then bolted in perfectly, both for the hole in the door, and also providing sufficient depth for the driver without hitting the window when its rolled down..
we then used the new speaker cable to run underneath the carpet down the centre console from the front to the back. then we spent a total of 2.5hrs (yes............) having a huge problem of running the speaker cable into the doors. it was almost impossible.. we did this in the end using coathangers to guide the cables through and by the end of it was able to wire up the new splits into the doors, applied new plastic wrapping to protect the speakers/crossover from water inside the door, and just cable tied everything together.
that was the end of day 1.
then today we woke up and continued with the wiring of the amps and subs in the boot. we wired it all up and did a test run. the system sure did sound beautiful at this stage as we just spent over 15hrs just mucking with wire placement.
our boot install ended up being just the two amps on one side of the boot in the middle, screwed into the carpet/floor and the sub box on the right of it all up against the back seat in its box.
then it was the process of putting all seats back in, vacuum'ed like mad, cable tied absolutely everything (cable ties were our best friend all day long), and front bucket seats back in and voila!!
im still tuning the system but it sounds beautiful. the splits are absolutely supreme. the sub meets my previous 2x 12" Pioneer's and its just a single 12"!!!
apart from this though in a week's time we will have to out the interior again as my processor/equaliser will be arriving too and once this is in, i'll use the aux-in on it to run in my dvd/mp3/svcd/vcd player + 7.2" widescreen whcih i've had sitting here for over a fortnight now.
equipment now in my car:
Deck:
- Alpine 7876RB headunit
Front Stage:
- Dynaudio System 240 MKII 2-way component speakers
- powered by Audison LRx2.250 amplifier
Rear Stage:
- Pioneer 6x9's (from previous setup just for a little fill.. dunno model)
- this is running off the headunit
Bassy gutwrenching goodness:
- Infinity Kappa Perfect 12 subwoofer
- powered by Alpine MRV T757 amplifier
And to be installed in the next fortnight:
- Alpine ERA G320 processor/equaliser
- incar DVD/MP3/SVCD/VCD player + 7.2" widescreen LCD monitor.
pics to follow soon of final install.. we decided against taking pics of the process because we encountered so many hiccups that it was a nightmare and didnt really want pics to remind us of the troubles.. hehehe