Here's a few pictures of my Touring stereo upgrade...

Yes, I too, am one of the very dissatisfied owners of the Bose stereo in the Touring model. The car rocks, but the Bose stereo suxx. Needless to say...not anymore !

Anyways, here is some of my custom work I completed.

The amp rack consists of 2 amps (1 4 channel and 1 2 channel):
Phoenix Gold Tantrum 400.4 (50x4) -- This amp drives my front JL Audio XR650-Csi seperates and my rear JL Audio VR650-CXi coaxs.
Phoenix Gold Titanium ZX600ti (600x1) -- Lots of clean power and built-in low pass level control. This amp will drive my JL Audio 10W6 sub (Dual 6 ohm coils wired in parallel). The enclosure will be a custom fiberglass housing 1 JL10W6 and located behind the left rear wheel well. I will be doing this myself, or having one done by Paul (via zland's group buy).

Rack specs:
Custom rack built from 5/8" mdf carpetted with black acoustic carpet, and custom fit to be flush with the front of the factory sub location. The entire area was deadened with FATMAT (Dynamat Extreme knock-off).

Here is the rack:

 

Another pic of the amp rack and amps:

 

...and the Audio Control EQX-II (EQ and xover):

 

Another EQ pic (you can see that it is totally hidden under the false floor cover in the glovebox)

 

And a crummy picture of the head unit, a Pioneer Premier DEH-P840MP and metra install kit:

 

I will be adding more later...

I will post a few pics of the actual door deadening material instlal and seperates install, plus better pics of the HU, and sub enclosure...

 

Nice and clean, although if I had a nice amp such as PG I would elect to put it out somewhere to show it its purty blue lights. But thats just me.