2fnould's build log

[2fnloud]

I am trying but, at worse I can show off a pretty hatch area.....

I dropped off my "A" Pillars to a trusted friend to glass in my tweeter pods then wrap them in vinyl. I got a spare set of plastic one for this. My original's are untouched. Actually, the only non-reversible thing done to the car was I cut holes into the base of the hatch trim so my RCA's, speaker wires, and power wires can run to the front of the car.

My goal was to make EVERYTHING reversible back to stock. I haven't even put a screw into the chassis, and don't plan on it.

[ictponder]

I am trying but, at worse I can show off a pretty hatch area.....

I dropped off my "A" Pillars to a trusted friend to glass in my tweeter pods then wrap them in vinyl. I got a spare set of plastic one for this. My original's are untouched. Actually, the only non-reversible thing done to the car was I cut holes into the base of the hatch trim so my RCA's, speaker wires, and power wires can run to the front of the car.

My goal was to make EVERYTHING reversible back to stock. I haven't even put a screw into the chassis, and don't plan on it.

Aww cmon, hacking up your car is the cool thing to do these days.

[CoopKill]

I am trying but, at worse I can show off a pretty hatch area.....

I dropped off my "A" Pillars to a trusted friend to glass in my tweeter pods then wrap them in vinyl. I got a spare set of plastic one for this. My original's are untouched. Actually, the only non-reversible thing done to the car was I cut holes into the base of the hatch trim so my RCA's, speaker wires, and power wires can run to the front of the car.

My goal was to make EVERYTHING reversible back to stock. I haven't even put a screw into the chassis, and don't plan on it.

Did you use caulk or? To secure the box mounting framing? Meaning the wood that spans the spare tire area...

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[2fnloud]

I secured two hardwood beams to the car by screwing them into the plastic inserts that are used to secure the cuby trays around the spare tire.

I also am going to use the spare tire tie down bolt to secure it even more...trust me it will be safely secure.

[green-lantern]

Looking good man!

[2fnloud]

Today I tackled to fun job of pulling the battery from the engine bay, installing BigTyla's ground kit and Ninja's 75 Amp fuel power kit.

Most on my morning went installing the ground kit, 1/0 GA wire made doing it per the directions....interesting. I ended going from grounding buss bar to T/B...T/B to back head...back head to front head. grounding buss bar to firewall. Alternator bracket to the A/C tie down point instead of the rad bracket. The transmission the the grounding buss bar, and finally the firewall to the engine. Turned out that grounding point wasn't doing anything,

Afternoon / evening building and installing this:



If you wonder why I mentioned "buss bar and not bat terminal:

Because there isn't a bat terminal to terminate to.

Installed in place of the battery:




I am hoping that empty void will be big enough to install meth injection when I get to that point.

Then I installed Ninja performance's 75 amp fuel power upgrade kit.



That also goes without saying that I have the dual batcap 2000s in place and integrated into the electrical system. 14.35V at the batteries while the car is running. I should measure wattage under the hood, should be close to that as well.

[2fnloud]

OK I managed to get my rear 6x9's installed before NG, I wasn't about to go on a 6 hour drive without tunes.

First:
I hit the original plastic with an entire can of rubberized undercoating

You can also see the neoprene gasket that I used to help seal the enclosure against the chassis.



I still ended up needing to use non-hardening clay to proper;y seal the enclosure against the chassis.




I even had to use the clay to properly seal the speaker to the enclosure, I needed about a 1/4" more depth. I am not concerned about the clay keeping the seal because of the 2" port that is incorporated into the factory enclosure.

The final touch to the rear speakers that you can not see is the poly fill that I put into the enclosure with the speakers.

[IPD]

wow. after all that trouble, and you're keeping the 6x9's. i'd have thought you'd upgrade to 8" or something.

[2fnloud]

wow. after all that trouble, and you're keeping the 6x9's. i'd have thought you'd upgrade to 8" or something.

What the 4 eights in the rear are not enough?

[IPD]

What the 4 eights in the rear are not enough?

should have gone with 4 x 10" back there. serioiusly though, i'd really like to put 10" on the sides, but it would require a lot of modding.

beautiful work thus far! did you rip the cloth off the rear speaker panel covers? i did it on mine. wash & scrub for 2 minutes in a sink, and it's a lovely black. incidentally, it matches my custom from speaker panel covers very well.

p.s.
what did you use for spacers on the 6x9's? the magnet on my pioneers also sticks out a bit too far. i didn't use any spacers, i just tightened the screws down until the gap was equal on all sides.