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I came home after church today and when I went in my room to change out of my khakis and knit shirt and the light was off... I tripped over this giant speaker box that has been in there for well over a year now. It has two audiobahn 12" subs and a 1200 Xplod amp in it. I decided that that thing was really starting to annoy me, and I was going to throw the amp and the speakers into the silver along with an Xplod 12" sub I had in the closet from an even longer time ago. Everything is in now but nothing is hooked up because I haven't run wires to the amp yet. The only thing missing is my Xplod 5 1/4"s three ways that will be mounted on the shelf tonight.
DISCLAIMER: Just in case any true audio gurus see this set up, yes I know it is blasphemy to have Xplod equipment in the same system Audibahns... but these are what I have aquired over the years, and the only reason I even reinstalled all this stuff that was originally in the little blue is because I got tired of it sitting in my floor waiting till I found a buyer for it.
Ok, now the pics
First I built a shelf (that will probably get gray carpet sometime, many thanks to warlocke for the tip about finding carpet at hobbylobby)
Cutouts for the bottom of the third brake light and for the hatch support strut
Then I made another flat peice that slopes down at an angle so that I wouldn't lose ALL my cargo space in the trunk... I cut out three 11" holes in it too
Then I stuck a 12 in each one of the holes
Then I mounted an amp to the back of the rear seat... not the best place for it, but it fit there so thats where it got put
The rear seat also doubles as an access hatch to work on the rest of the wiring and to tune everything once its hooked up
And in the process of this install I managed to lose only a little more than half of my rear cargo space.
List of things left to do:
1. run the wires and hook everything back up... shouldn't be too hard because I still remember exactly how I ran the wires in the little blue, so I just have to duplicate that
2. mount the Xplod 5 1/4"s in the new shelf... also shouldn't be hard
3. get some grills for the speakers so if I do have to put anything cargo back there they will be protected
4. paint/carpet/cover everything so it looks professional and not like some carpenter dude just built a box and stuck speakers in it (which is in reality what actually happened)
All in all though, I don't think its too shabby of a job to have gotten this far in one sunday afternoon after church. Hopefully soon I'll get to throw a clip up in the video section of this thing bumpin 'n' thumpin
DISCLAIMER: Just in case any true audio gurus see this set up, yes I know it is blasphemy to have Xplod equipment in the same system Audibahns... but these are what I have aquired over the years, and the only reason I even reinstalled all this stuff that was originally in the little blue is because I got tired of it sitting in my floor waiting till I found a buyer for it.
Ok, now the pics
First I built a shelf (that will probably get gray carpet sometime, many thanks to warlocke for the tip about finding carpet at hobbylobby)
Cutouts for the bottom of the third brake light and for the hatch support strut
Then I made another flat peice that slopes down at an angle so that I wouldn't lose ALL my cargo space in the trunk... I cut out three 11" holes in it too
Then I stuck a 12 in each one of the holes
Then I mounted an amp to the back of the rear seat... not the best place for it, but it fit there so thats where it got put
The rear seat also doubles as an access hatch to work on the rest of the wiring and to tune everything once its hooked up
And in the process of this install I managed to lose only a little more than half of my rear cargo space.
List of things left to do:
1. run the wires and hook everything back up... shouldn't be too hard because I still remember exactly how I ran the wires in the little blue, so I just have to duplicate that
2. mount the Xplod 5 1/4"s in the new shelf... also shouldn't be hard
3. get some grills for the speakers so if I do have to put anything cargo back there they will be protected
4. paint/carpet/cover everything so it looks professional and not like some carpenter dude just built a box and stuck speakers in it (which is in reality what actually happened
)All in all though, I don't think its too shabby of a job to have gotten this far in one sunday afternoon after church. Hopefully soon I'll get to throw a clip up in the video section of this thing bumpin 'n' thumpin
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