Hey thanks @512S2k ! Appreciate you making your way back to my thread(you posted alot earlier) with the same sentiment. So, it means alot. I just wanna share what I can for others to get something positive from it!

 

Well been making slow progress on getting the system ready.

First off had to order two of each of the metra harness as both sides have insufficient pins or pins in the wrong place.

So spent some time depinning.
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Started building the loop harness. the 4 speaker pairs, positive ignition, and ground are all being run to the rear. Ground is disconnected from the body side of the loop harness, and left on the head unit side. This way there is no ground loop and the head unit is grounded at the same location as the amps. Four wires, or two speaker pairs are returning from the rear and connected to the body side harness for fronts(to not run door speakers as OEM wiring should handle 160W but I'm not running close to that.

Below is an image showing how it will be wired. The other amp came but was sent back as it looked used or had some type of damage. So just imagine the other is there. I did not wire a "remote" wire. Most people use ignition as the remote wire, however I am using ignition as 12v positive power for the High to Low converter, which is signal sensing and generates a remote wire for me.



Started pulling the cable through and then zip tied the bends tight, then pulled it back out and wrapped the bundle like a fitted harness.




After it's been wrapped and pulled back in.



Head unit reinstalled


So now just gotta wrap the rear section and pull it through here





I need to remove the passenger seat to make some room, as I'll be putting the soft top up, removing the rear tray, and folding the rear of the soft top up like this old picture. To access the area behind the fuel filler neck and build a tray.



So until the 2nd amp comes in I will probably wait to do that.

In the mean time, after all that Engine bay cleaning I couldn't put a rusty battery tray back in. So picked up one that was clean off eBay.



Then spent an hour trying to shove a 4 guage through Satan's butthole to run to a fuse block with a 25amp(speakers) and 30amp(sub) fuses on it. No cutting the main harness, instead just adding an additional nut to the post on a ring terminal.



I have my buddy CNC'ing a mount for the fuse block on the fuse box mounts, which will split to two 8 guage that go through the firewall down the passenger side.


Made a little thing for the bass knob from a spare blank plate








pre made the ground distribution block and ring as well the JST to RCA connection had some weak crimps, so depinned them, recrimped, and added a touch of solder and shrink.


So that's kinda where I'm at for now, need some true 8guage(got some but it was actually 10guage -b ) to come in, and the other amp.

Otherwise I pre-tuned the amp to the sub. The db104dvc I have is rated for a 28-200hz frequency response

So the Low Pass filter is setup to 200hz, and the subsonic filter is set right around 30hz.



The same will be true of the other amp but the opposite, my speakers have a 35hz-22khz response, however the sub will be producing below 200hz, so it will be set to high pass filters, with a lower cutoff of 200hz, leaving the 30-200hz range for duty of the sub.

More soon I'm sure.

 

I'm exhausted just reading this. Great work.
Ahhh, to be that young and energetic again.

 

Somebody found a very special part for me. One that I've never seen mentioned. An elusive pert of yet another discontinued part . The seat-back pocket button.





finally three years later they are complete lol.

 

So I've had some more fun



So pulled the soft top up



Measured the area I was gonna mount into and cut some stuff





Test fit the stack.


​​​​​​Unscrewed it, and put dual lock velro on the body and mount. Then mounted the high to low converter and ground distribution block. Wired up the stuff coming from the head unit. Which again is grounded back here with the amps and high to low converter to not make a ground loop.

Mounted the ground to a factory available ground. Perfect

Then tested out to make sure the high to low was working properly. Hooked upto my headphone amp, didn't take a picture but did of ensuring power was working properly.


Screwed the end caps onto the top mount on the rear, as they can't be screwed into a platform anyway as the connectors are in the way, so will connect the wires through the holes and then slide them into place and do the other side.


Pulled the sub wire


Here's an Idea of how tucked away from view from the trunk this all is.


Got the other amp and about to wire that up, as well as got a fuse distribution block that matched the fuse box mounting center to centers




So waiting on the 8AWG power wire to finish up. But on a different note.. I got my Black Type R airbag. So much better looking than all of the S2000 bags. This is the bag it should have come with.



Well more random stuff soon.

 

Welp finished up the amp install. And the seatback organizers now have their buttons

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​​​​​Got it all back together




​​​​​​Then went for a drive, and my brand new Mugen Oil cap met it's fate, oil cap blew off and wedged between the firewall.

Was less than a 1/4 mile from home on the way back from a 30 minute drive, after doing a 20 minutes idle relearn earlier when the sound of thunder in my firewall around a sharp right went thunk.

​​​​​​Fished the cap out.. which is all scratched up now. And put the old cap back on. Started the car and there was a weird sound coming from the valve train - or so I thought.





Pulled the valve cover and checked the valves and clearances.. nothing. Put it back together same thing while revving.

After poking around for a second with the Engine running. I disconnected the pcv and the noise stopped. Removed the PCV and blew through it to find out it sounded like a kazoo.. welp that was probably why my oil cap blew off. So replaced the PCV.

Nothing worse then cleaning up oil all over the Engine bay after you just got done cleaning the bay.... -_-

 

Very thorough and informative. Thanks for the updates and looking forward to seeing that clean engine bay.