After months of searching, calling, asking questions, and getting estimates I finally had a budget audio system installed to replace my factory Bose system. The great, and unusual thing is that the place that I chose happened to be owned by a couple of guys (two brothers) that I went to high school with (we graduated in 75). I haven't seen these guys in over 30 years but when I found out they were the owners I went into the home theater side of their store and reintroduced myself. Only one of them was there and we spend a good hour doing some catching up. Anyway, when he found out why I was there, he gave me a HUGE price break on the installation labor cost. Here are a few pictures I took:

Alpine amps going into the glove box behind the passenger seat:




I had them Dynamat the doors and the sub area:




The Pioneer head unit:




The Pioneer head unit part 2:



I went with Alpine Type R speakers in both the front and rear with an Alpine Type S sub in to original sub area (they built a down firing enclosure). I have had the car back for about a week and am relatively happy with the sound, however I am still getting used to the Pioneer deck. Operationally it is not real intuitive so certain functions I have to refer to the manual. The speakers may be a bit too "gentle" for me. I will live with them for a while and then swap them out with some more aggressive. All in all, for what I ended up paying, I am very satisfied.

 

look sgood, dont be so quick to blame the type Rs, IMO they aren thtat GENTLE of speakers...the stock location IMO is the big culprit, you can stick 1000 dollar speakres in there nad they still sound like poop IMO hehe

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