Just finished a car i havent done a serious system in before...2000 land cruiser

For build up pics, please see this thread:

http://www.diymobileaudio.com/forum/...ad.php?t=37484

anyway, goals:

1. excellent sound quality

2. classy and simple design with a little bit of show factor

3. the hatch install needs to be EXTREMELY strong to withstand pounding from diving tanks, drum sets on a regular basis

so...lets get started.

the signal source starts with a pioneer 6000UB ipod enabled CD player, this is a more or less temporary solution, he will switch to a double din of sometime down the road.



front stage consists of a set of a Seas Lotus reference 6.5" two way components, the tweeters are molded into the A pillars, and covered in tan vinyl. as you can see, this A pillar is very long and extends all the way to the B pillar:









the midbass are in vinyl trimed fiberglass kick panels, aimed on axis with the opposite listener:









and here is the front stage as a whole:



grilles were made for the kicks:



and here is what htey look like attached:



take off a stock pop off panel on the left side of the dash, and the USB cable for the zapco DSP control can be accessed, plug in an extension, and tune away from the driver seat:



moving onto the cargo area, i built a side mounted amp rack/subbox, in the end, it only took up about 3" of real trunk space, meaning the space that goes beyond the wheel well cover. this also allows him to retain back seat fold down ability to pass long cargo through. the rack is VERY sturdy, i can sit my 200lb butt on it and you can grab it and shake the entire truck with it...

on top of a vinyl cutout window with mesh and land cruiser logo that sits above the two amplifiers, a Zapco DC reference 650.6 powers the front stage (180watts for midbass 100 for tweets), and a DC 500.1 power a single IDQ10v3 with 500 watts. the mesh not only hides th amps from plain view, but also provides adequate heat dissipation. the sub is flushed into a vinyled opening, and a plexi window looks into the Distribution blocks. the front and back sides
have a grilled cutout on them to allow air to flow though the entire structure, this will ensure the zapco am's fans, whcih draws air from one side of the amp and out hte other, does not just circulate dead air. the entire rack is finished in tan carpeting:













fold the backseat down and you see the other vented covering panel:



a grille was made to go over the sub and D block rack:





and here is the grille on the rack, the carpet is fully breathable so it does not affect the sub's output.



and finally, a few shops of the naked rack showing hte wiring and layout:







with just a standard file loaded onto the amps now, it sounds pretty good arleady, stage is surprisingly high, with good solid midbass impact. taking her down to LA tommorow and gonna tune it some more.

 

Nice to see a different style install from the ones we usually see. Good job.

Question: Because they have the DC Reference amps, there is no external processor, correct? So the USB connector comes from both amps? i.e. one connector daisy chained?

 

I was looking for grille mesh like that. Would you mind letting me know where you get it from? Select Products? I think I asked you before, but I could never find nice snap grommets like the ones you use. Looks awesome as always.

 

mesh i get it from www.mcmaster.com, grommets i get from my supplier, except hte zero guage for htat, i get mine from DVflyer lol who happen to have a store locally that sells it

you get can snap in grommts from www.thebettersource.com but they dont have zero guage as i mentioned

 

beautiful install.

 

As always bing, awesome install!

 

Nice install. The only thing I'm not keen on are the emblems on top.

 

Saw this car in person over the weekend. The box is much less intrusive than I thought it appeared in the pictures.

And clean.... clean... clean. Top quality work.

 

The amps are networked together by a telephone cord and assigned addresses via dip switches. Then you run just one USB cable from the Master amp to your computer to tune both amps.

 

Awesome install! I wish you were close enough to make me a cool stereo setup.