System installed!!!!!
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System installed!!!!!
Here is a shot of the head unit and the amp install in my roadster. I went with this head unit due to the absolutely perfect match in terms of colors and overall design with the Z interior. Speakers are Focal 165K2P front/165CV rear -all behind the stock grills. Sub is a 10" JL W3v2 in a custom box in the stock sub location. All powered by a JL 500/5 amp. The logos over the amp are "floating" between two pieces of plexiglass sitting under and over a cut-out in the black plastic spare tire cover. It isn't some kind of mega-system, but does have beautiful, clean looks, high quality sound and very importantly (to me) no weight gain!!!!
Last edited by Speedracer; 07-11-2005 at 01:50 PM.
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I'm not too crazy about those HU's, but it is a clean install. Did you do the amp install?
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Originally Posted by vo7848
I'm not too crazy about those HU's, but it is a clean install. Did you do the amp install?
Interesting about your comment with regards to the head unit. For me, I knew I HAD TO have one the instant I first saw one!!!!
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Hey Speed, I've got the K2p's as well--I've read people who are emphatic about not needing rears w/ these speakers. Being as doubtful as I am though, I had thought about the 165 CV's for the rear and powering them w/ the headunit (960MP). What's your opinion on the sound w/ the CV's?
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Originally Posted by umzzz
why did you cover up the amp with the stickers? JL amps look so nice without anything on them!
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Originally Posted by suprpwr
yeh dude, what unit is that !?!
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Nice, you need to get a night shot of the Headunit, that is when it looks really NICE and still stock, like it came with the car!
nice install, not over the top, just nice!
nice install, not over the top, just nice!
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Originally Posted by Chief F1 Fan
Hey Speed, I've got the K2p's as well--I've read people who are emphatic about not needing rears w/ these speakers. Being as doubtful as I am though, I had thought about the 165 CV's for the rear and powering them w/ the headunit (960MP). What's your opinion on the sound w/ the CV's?
Last edited by Speedracer; 07-12-2005 at 03:41 PM.
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Originally Posted by visionboy
Looks very nice.
Can we see a pic of your subwoofer location?
Can we see a pic of your subwoofer location?
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sub box in stock location.....here' how
Originally Posted by visionboy
Looks very nice.
Can we see a pic of your subwoofer location?
Can we see a pic of your subwoofer location?
The bottom was a bit of a challenge. I needed a sub box that could be removed easily, if necessary, since the fuel pump and other mechanicals are accessed through this location. Due to the angle of the front metal plate, the magnet of the JL sub wouldn't clear the bottom of the sub box, so we ended up cutting a U-shaped hole on the bottom of the box, then building a free form fiberglass "cup" the allowed the magnet to fit, but also didn't protude lower than the bottom edge of the stock metal mounting plate in front. Everything was then nicely sealed up and the sub box was slid into the stock sub location with the factory sub grill over it.
I didn't get a chance to get a pic in the time the the box was finished and before it was installed into the car, and there really is no point to it now, since all it would show is the stock metal mounting face with a JL sub in place of the stock Bose sub.
The real point here is that you can build a box to go in the factory location using the factory metal mounting plate as the front of the box. The sound is great. Very clean, tight, no rattles whatsoever. After some negatives I had heard about putting a box in this location, I was very pleasantly surprised. There is more bass than I know what to do with!!! Infact, I have turned the sub gain DOWN from it's neutral setting using a 78Hz low pass filter. Since I have a roadster, this was really the only possible location and it works great. I think it would work as well in the coupe, for those of you where space is a concern. Of course, the under-the-strut bar sub location does lend itself to some killer-looking installs, but in terms of sound, the stock location is just fine.
Last edited by Speedracer; 07-16-2005 at 06:10 AM.