Just for the false floor this weekend: 6 hours including time for the contact cement to setup, to screw up the routing of the inset and waiting for the replacement lexan panel to arrive in my hands ;-) Shaping the backside took time too. It's an odd shape so I copied it from the OEM carpet insert and i had to basically use the router to 'carve' it to shape.
For the audio in total? Hard to calculate. Initially my audio shop did some of the install work (i.e.: pulling the power feed through the firewall and installing the metra dash kit) but I did almost everything else, speakers, deck and SW control adaptor... But I also changed decks halfway through, and I've been through 3 subs (But you'll have to pry this W6 box from my cold dead hands)... Basically It was a long work in progress that i finally refined to what i really wanted, so i installed a few parts more than once along the way. A few bits of cleanup here and there like tidying wiring and replacing fuse blocks for aesthetic/quality reasons also happened over a longer timeframe
In total it was an almost 1.5yr build but of course with long stretches of living with whatever I had put in until I could afford/set-up the bits i wanted. If i were building this from scratch.... Hmm let's find out
Deck install: 2-3hrs (our dash is a PITA to get apart)
Power, big 3 and battery wiring in the engine compartment: 2hrs
Power wiring in the interior (including the wiring for the inverter): 2hrs
Speaker wiring fronts: 3-4hrs (it's an even BIGGER PITA to get wiring through the grommets and into the door panel)
Speaker wiring rear: 1hr
Front component install: 5hrs (had to carve up the door sill wings and the door panel to get everything in and looking right, and properly dress the x-over wiring)
Rear coax install: 1hr
Audio wiring: 1hr
Amp rack wiring and mounting equipment: 4hrs (this includes leads for the speakon disconnects as well as power)
Looming (including engine bay): 2hrs
Damping the trunk and rear passenger area: 5hrs (including panel removal and reinstallation)
System tuning and adjustment: 2hrs (or.. like... never ending)
Total: ~32 hours.
I should point out that I'm an audio guy by trade. I've been mixing sound since i was 13, and i currently build tube amps as well. I'm also anal about wire management, so i took a lot more time with some stuff than a shop would.
That was a really long answer to a really short question wasn't it?
Looks great,
How much time do you have into the install?
-Derrick
