My latest sound install for HitmanR32 (non vw)

[glidn]

Hi all finished putting all of Hitman's Sound gear in to his Daily Hack

Its not VW but he reckons it kicks his old R32s arse in handling

we reused his 5 Channel V12 Alpine his Dual Voice Coil 8" Subs

and we put some nice Cerwyn Vega 5 and 1/4 Components in the front door.. and disabled the rest of the speakers!
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Just to break the sound install monotony we decided to put the Amp and subs in the boot


Checking out What we had to work with and then commencing on the masking off in preparation for Glassing



Glassing and Then Popping the Mould Out

[glidn]

Making the Box Face...



Mounting the Face in to the Mould and Showing that we Sound deadened the inside of the box with Bostic sound deadning (Gave the box a perfect Seal)

[glidn]

Finally Sealing the box with a Polar Fleece Wrap and Resin and then Adding more Deadening in to the seams that were previously open and potentially pourus



Carpeting the box



The Finished Product (Perhaps not the prettiest Install but Functional Easy to remove (Nut Serted Anchorpoint for the box) however the Best/Nicest sounding Dual 8" Sealed enclosure i have made to date and the best thing the car albeit 15 years old not one rattle when the sub is blasting away at full and no deadening used in the doors





We couldnt fit the Cerwyn Vega Tweeters in the stock location so we put them down in the kick panel area.. to lift the sound stage we play them out of phase to the Woofer.. system sound awesome...

[Golf Houso]

Very impressive as usual, what model Mercedes is it?

[glidn]

its just a plane jane C220 Esprit

apparently his family has had it since new... so hes just mucking about with it till he can be botherd buying something else (althou hes been hinting at m3s)

[HOLEIN1]

The Finished Product (Perhaps not the prettiest Install but Functional Easy to remove (Nut Serted Anchorpoint for the box) however the Best/Nicest sounding Dual 8" Sealed enclosure i have made to date

nothing to complain about this install, looks neat and tidy, and most importantly, sounds good!

[glidn]

Holein1, yeah my presonal choice would not have been the lighter grey carpet.
But that is what he wanted, it does work well with the Amp board also wrapped in the same shade. I guess it also give the two tone on the Alpine amp more of a prescense.

[Mr ©harisma]

Very nice, soon he might upgrade to a 10inch for extra long excursion ha. Bet it sounds nice and tight. Good to see the old V12 still alive and kicking.

[glidn]

Very nice, soon he might upgrade to a 10inch for extra long excursion ha. Bet it sounds nice and tight. Good to see the old V12 still alive and kicking.

Haha yeah

well there is talk of getting a Beetle Aircooled, oh dear.

These two 8"s do a suprising job really.

[Mr ©harisma]

At least it is only talk at this stage.... any reason for that?

Well the 2 8inchers together on the same plane in the right spot will have a nice bit of kick! You should try putting them in the front stage next

[glidn]

haha

yeah 8" front would be nice, i now have a mk3, and the chance of happening are pretty dam slim tbh.

I'm trying to figure out a plan of action for my vr6 thou.

Once i have pieced my stereo together i'll do a build log.

Thus far i have already pulled out all the crap that was in the replace the front mids twice and the sub three times. lol

Now want to get some nice mids, I'm hoping on some Image Dynamics XS65's.

Pitty you are selling the Bora.

[ranton-inc]

hahah yo

Looking at either a 1303s

or a Mazda 3 MPS.. 2.3 litres of turbo mazda good ness

[Mr ©harisma]

Yeah that is the problem with car audio, you are never really happy with it.

ID's should sound good, I have never heard them personally but I hear good things about them. Yeah I just realised you went back to a MK3, looks like trouble. I'm sure you will take lots of pictures.

Yeah the Bora is almost gone, spent all weekend taking all the gear out. Now I have the big whopping Oz Audio Me 12.2 sitting in our spare room and Audison amps looking all pretty on the shelf.

HitmanR32 get the Mazda3 Maxx.. it's soooo much better

[glidn]

Lol, over in NZ there is no such thing as a Mazda3 Maxx.

Yeah going back to mk3 is abit of trouble.

I have already done a quick install in the MK3. and replaced the front components 3 times already. lol.

Also tried the IDMAX10V3D2, IDQV3D2 and ID8V3D2.
All have there purpose. The IDMAX is incredible.
If I had the room i would certainly run the IDMAX. This things is seriously astonishing. It does everything so effortlessly. WOW is all i can say.

But yeah started playing with tweeter swap and placements, Tried on top of dash, could not get the imaging correct.

Stuck them by the mid firing across from one side door to oposing passenger. Sounded nice but stage was way to low even TA and EQ could not get the image right.

Then tried approx 8" up on the A pillar firing across at each other sounded amazing. Any other angle up there resulted in funny location areas.

So i'm planning on Building the following.

Headunit and amps are bound to stay the same.
Alpine CDA 9887
Eaudio 280Ab or EAudio 480Ab or MRV-F407
Sub amp : Sundown Z1000D.

Fronts:
Dual Alpine Type S SPS-171A's
or Image Dynamics XS65.

Sub Duty: Will Be one of the following
Image Dynamics IDQV2D4
Image Dynamics IDQV3D2/D4

So Yeah,

Either do another Side mounted again.

But toying with the idea currently of doing spare wheel mounted Sub in 0.5ish ft3 sealed with around 600 - 1000Wrms on tap and have the amp in there too.

Not bothered about a spare wheel to be truthful.

Will update and create new log when i start doing the install.
I might even be without the Vr6 by the time i get around to doing the install.

But then again i kind of have to have the front and sub installed by the end of march, but have wedding this weekend, Dive Course (ie. getting diving license) next weekend, then driving down to Wellington (Around 1300km round trip). So yeah not sure when i'm going to get chance to do all this.

Plus the biggest problem is last week still around 30ish degree's, this week dropped down to around 17-20C and also starting to rain again. Bugger.

[ranton-inc]

got my mps love it.. bose system is awesome!

love how its all intergrated and simple.. does that mean im growing up? lol

and knowing Glidn..

he wont be taking lots of pictures unless im there.. i got the trigger happy camera finger! lol