April 20th: Stereo Time
Alright so early rising, I was up and at er at 8 am.
I started with the speakers in my front doors. I'm using JL Audio XR650 Components in the front:
The wire was already pulled in, so I began my work on the door, putting down some brown bread and modifying the moisture gaurd. Then I went ahead and screwed in my baffle and then the speaker, all set. I put the sound deadening down with a heat gun and roller.
The door panels, however, gave me some trouble.
First came the issue of the crossover, where to put it, how to mount it, would it hold? all my questions, consumed alot of time. I went ahead and shaved the speaker inlet off the inside of the panel:
Then I marked off the tweeter install area in cut out the tweeter hole for the mounting cup:
I finally decided on the back of the door panel near the lower foam block, which I cut out to make room for it to sit flush. I used a professional grade epoxy to stick it on, taped down my tweeter wires nice, and then weather stripped around the rough edge of the cut speaker hole:
With that all done I went ahead and put the door panel back on, turned out well:
I completed the same steps for the drivers side door, with the speaker wire pulled into the trunk where my amplifier will eventaully be.
At this point in time I headed in town, to ship some packages, and check out some new speakers fro my rear doors, since my sedan had rear deck speakers.
The guy at the shop and I were talking for a while and he said for good speakers I should sound deaden the INSIDE of the door, as in behind teh speaker. Won't this get in the way of the window? Should I do it? All things to consider. Going in again tomorrow to pick up some new speakers for the rear and more sound deadening for the rear doors.
As i got back in the car and slammed the door the crossover popped off. Stupid epoxy didn't hold. I'm going to have to take the door panels off again tomorrow and be creative.
When I got home I started on the install of the deck. I used coat hangers to make radio removal tools, and pulled out my stock Double Din stereo. I don't like the 2001+ harness, I prefered teh grounding stud that had it's own wire, rather then the ground wire being in the harness. Oh well.
First things first, I had to remove teh radio trim partially to install the divider/support bar in the middle of the gapping hole. This stupid part cost $17 canadian, and didnt even come with the slide nuts and screws for it, oh well, lucky I had some at home.
Then I went ahead and used this big open space I had to my advantage. I cut the 4 wires i need from the harness, and left the rest intact. Wired them into my deck harness, and then tapped and zip tied everythign neat together. I then pulled my RCA's (3 sets, front/rear/subs) intot eh deck area and hooked them into my rca jacks on the deck harness. The RCA's are sitting in a pile on my passenger floor. I also mounted the frame for my deck in using a hammer pounded the tabs in to make sure it isn't going anywhere anytime soon.
I ahd to drill a hole into the back of my luxury box, to allow for the wires to enter for my switch panel, which I also completed the wiring for, but didn't mount yet. Then i pushed the luxury box in and snapped it into place.
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In the morning I'll finish with the deck, and get it all in, and teh rca's pulled to the back, switch panel done, adn teh remote wire pulled.
