Quote from: Scott4957 on December 29, 2015, 03:52:14 PM
Quote from: jbeez on December 29, 2015, 03:43:59 PM
If you have any questions about the things I did and why I did them just ask, I hope it helps anyone embarking on some audio installs, I made a few mistakes and ended up going back, the biggest thing I had to redo were my ground connections, I got almost OCD about it because they can cause alot of issues if they're bad, more than not doing a ground upgrade at all maybe. Always upgrade your ground though if you're upgrading the +12v
I'm curious about your pass through and any sound deadening. It looks like you took the speakers out of the rear deck from the pictures, where you just putting in upgrades or did you leave some or all out for the subs? Also, did you use any dynomat or something similar on the trunk?
That looks like one beast of a system, are those additional batteries or some type of capacitor in the spare wheel well? I can't imagine how hard that must hit, its been many years since I built a system even remotely close to that but it sure was fun. I appreciate the work you did to make a nice form fitting cover to make it all look like one flat piece. I did the same with a Acura RSX-S hatch install but it was dished rather than flat, with the amps facing out and the subs facing in. Please post a picture of the finished product with that cover installed.
Thanks,
Scott
Those are 4 kinetik hc800 batteries, I choose them because of their size to fit under the sub, I would go with any xspower brand though if i did it again. They are supposed to add up to watts, so each theoretically supports 800watts of sound system by their numbers. My sub amp is rated for 3500wRMS. All the wire you see there is oversized car audio style 0awg, but 0awg crimp lugs wont fit I had to get all 2/0 awg lugs.
Those speakers on the rear deck were all removed. I wont be replacing them, they are for the air to make it through. The stock subs are very useless IMO and I'll never listen to anything in surround this is for stereo audio, so rear surround came out. I may reinstall rear surround just to use for another scanner channel not sure though. Also I have a digital scanner and i installed a small/cheap 200w boss amp just to run the scanner audio, that is tapped into the center channel speaker up front. Since I didn't have any fine volume controls for it I bought a cheap rca level bass knob style device and mounted that back there too, set the vol to a comfortable level and left it at that. the boss amp has the gain all the way down, but its cheap so that didn't do much for attenuating the volume for me. I did have it running through my helix dsp but I didn't like running two seperate audio streams through it so I bypassed it and thats where the vol knob came in.
I really really need sound deadening. I have a bunch in the house I haven't had a chance to install any yet, my typical battery of excuses goes as follows:
no time b/c work
weather is shitty(no garage)(pics of garage are at my friends house 2+hrs away where we did all the woodwork on his very nice equipment)
i just dont feel like working on it sometimes when nothing else is in the way.
The sound deadening I have is a bunch of leftover raamatt from my last car, and some new stuff I purchased from KNU. I think the KNU brand deadening(and wiring too since I'm using almost all KNU wire) is a fantastic value. You get alot for your money and its a very good product.
I used alot of relays to isolate things, even the battery isolator relay has a relay infront of that to trigger it to kick over because I was concerned with startup surge and the backfeed voltage on the collapse from that huge can to connect the rear batts to the front. I like to isolate circuits if I can at least minimally. I didn't opt for a battery isolator just a relay.