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My customer's car is a 05 legacy with with stock head unit and door speakers. He added aftermarket Alpine PDX 600.1 amp and Alpine Type R 12" sub woofer to the oem system a few years ago. He decided that he wanted more from his audio system by doing a full SQ build with the highest quality products for his budget. Since this is his daily driver he needed the car for work and could not leave it for a extended amount for time. So Im working on the car in stages. So it will take 3-4 trips to the shop to complete the build. Also he lives 1.5 hrs away from the shop.

 

Goals for the build

- Achieve high level sound quality and get loud when needed.

- minimal trunk space lost and retain stock look and spare tire.

- keep all panels stealth in appearance

 

Equipment

- JVC KW-AV60 6.1" double din dvd/cd head unit receiver

- Illusion Audio Carbon C6 2way components for the front stage( Backed ordered should be here by 3/15/13

- Arc Audio Black Series 12D4 12" subwoofer

- Arc Audio KS 300.4 4channel amp for the component set in BI-amp mode

- Arc Audio KS 300.2 2 Channel amp bridged to one channel for the sub

 

picture of the car

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JVC head unit

http://i562.photobucket.com/albums/ss63/customaudioman/20130224_131339_zpsea359b90.jpg

 

JVC head unit installed in the dash

http://i562.photobucket.com/albums/ss63/customaudioman/20130226_220846_zpsa590783a.jpg

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Moving onto the trunk area where the sub enclosure and amp rack will be located. I built the enclosure in two parts. I started with the lower, by building a foundation mold. but without the car be present I had to come up with another ways of doing this. I Had four circles left over from another build that I could use for the lower part of the box. Since I had four, i decided to do two boxes at the same time just in case someone in the future would like something similar in their legacy.

 

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Foundation is complete, now it time to wrap it with 1/8 black trunk liner that

will soak up the resin very well.

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The mold is now soaked with resin and then sanded after fully cured.

http://i562.photobucket.com/albums/ss63/customaudioman/20130228_132153_zpsf4d54e4b.jpg

Moving to the upper part of the enclosure that will sit on the foundation mold.

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time to route the circle out where the sub will mount in the install

http://i562.photobucket.com/albums/ss63/customaudioman/20130304_142538_zpse7347b36.jpg

 

Now it time to move back to the lower part of the enclosure by routing out the top

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With the top part of the enclosure sitting on the bottom part before I join and stiffen the enclosure.

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http://i562.photobucket.com/albums/ss63/customaudioman/20130305_110323_zpsdaea3211.jpg

stiffing up the lower part of the enclosure

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Sounds like it will be a decent build.

 

But in my head, I'm wondering why someone would do 3-4 trips to get it done. In my head it would be cheaper overall to rent a car while you work on it - especially if the shop is 1.5 hours away. That is just me though, and everyone can choose to do what they'd like to in life.

Pictures of my rides;

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Current Wagon

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Nope, nothing in the rear but the black series 12. These components will blow him away. lol. I cant wait myself to hear these bad boys fire up.

 

Nice, I only run bandpassed rear fill in my Z, with the front stage taking precedent. the LGT will just be a basic 4 speaker full range deal. MOAR PICS!!!

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Alright guys here is what I got finished yesterday when I had some time. The next time hes comes I should be finished the full build. still waiting on the back ordered speakers.

 

 

- Finished Marking amp location for the cutouts and mounting area

-Finished running all speaker, rca, power and ground wires to their designated area.

- Finished cutting out sections out of the top trim panel and router the edges

- wrapped sub enclosure in black vinyl

 

Speaker wires and rca wires zipped tied

http://i562.photobucket.com/albums/ss63/customaudioman/20130311_173252_zpsdf7df6d7.jpg

 

power, remote, ground and speaker wires

http://i562.photobucket.com/albums/ss63/customaudioman/20130311_172822_zps0c388813.jpg

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http://i562.photobucket.com/albums/ss63/customaudioman/20130311_114642_zps69576e47.jpg

Cutting the windows for the subwoofer and amps.

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mocking up amps for the rack and mounting location

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Next, I routed the windows of the panel with the 45 router bit.

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Next I wrapped the enclosure in black vinyl.

http://i562.photobucket.com/albums/ss63/customaudioman/20130311_210111_zps561414f1.jpg

http://i562.photobucket.com/albums/ss63/customaudioman/20130311_212041_zpseb6af51e.jpg

 

Test fitted back in the car

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Still waiting for the illusion audio c6 components to come in... but I did get a few other items they had in stock. pics of the tweeters and crossovers and the basket seem pretty good quality for a component set that retails under $300. Can wait to get my hands on the $1k C6 components.

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Had a few hours today to do some more wiring under the hood, cleaning up the old wiring from a previous install, measuring for the panels. Started the alarm install, just have a few wires left to run and program next time. I also replaced the old AGU 60amp fuse holder to a ANL fuse holder with larger fuse.

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So next week the build will be complete, the last item I was waiting came in.

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