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Old Nov 5, 2006 | 02:59 PM
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So I finally spent all day and night yesterday installing everything...
Here is what I did:

Eclipse cd8053 Face...mounted with factory brackets from oem radio, fits prefectly, just a tiny gap around the face because its smaller than the stock radio....

Front components:
Alpine Type X...Tweeters fitted into factory door tweeter pods, angeled towards Front Left seat (Driver)
6.5" drivers mounted with metal Diamond audio brackets...mounted directly to doors...(the brackets were already there from previous owner)
Crossover mounted on inside of door panel

Rear components:
So after a long hard desicion, I mounted the 6.5" drivers facing the rear of the car inside the roll hoops....I made my own brackets to mount these...so right now they are Uncovered, but I will make a leather or cloth cover to look like the S-pods from the rear (right now you can see the driver)
Crossovers mounted behind the rear panels behind the seats
Tweeters I didn't install...I haven't found any suitable place for these...any suggestions?
Ohh and reason they are facing the rear, because the sound still travels foward from the rear of the speaker, and they wouldn't fit facing fowards unless my seat back was like completly upright, which i didn't find very comfortable.....

Amp:
JL 300/4 mounted on amp rack in spare tire well
4 gauge JL wire for ground and power
JL 4 gauge dist. block

Now....I have a JL 500/1 sittin inside, just waiting on selling my JL powerwedge and purchasing a new sub and building a box for the rear.

I have my eye on a jl12w6...but its like $400 and i still have to build a box...but I do like the fact that the sub only requires .8 ft3 which would basically leave my entire trunk open (if i use the spare tire well as a box...there is more than enough room....i think the top measured 24x18x4 rectangle...before it starts to slant inward...and those dimmensions yield 1ft3 already, so there is plenty of room)
I wanted to stick with JL because I have previously owned 2 12 w3's which i loved, two 12 w0's which i have loved, so i figured the w6 would also win my heart

But just in case you guys convince me to change my mind...what other subs would you reccommend? And I like alot of bass, and the interiors are fkin loud crisp and clear, so i want some bass to match.......

sorry for rambling on im bored i guess? lol

ohh by the way it sounds awesome already, for someone normal (guess im not normal) this combo without a sub would be plenty...i just like the music really loud and the way i have it setup (no hp/lp filter on either front or rears) it distorts...so i really want the sub to set it up like i had it in my integra..

Fronts: HP filter on amp..have the majority of the music played through these
Rear: no filter, just use the rears for filler/mid bass.....
Sub: obviously all the umph comes from here...LP filter



Ohh summary if you dont wanna read...
Have JL 500/1 amp...whats a good sub...comparable to 12w6v2...I want hard hitting bass
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Old Nov 5, 2006 | 03:31 PM
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Very nice setup. Did you dynamat?

I'm a JL fan and the 12w6 is freaking awesome. Go for it. Or you could go nuts with a W7
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Old Nov 5, 2006 | 04:07 PM
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not yet im fkin brokee lol i just bought the car

but i will tear back down and dynamat eventually...from what ive seen its well worth it!! I'll probally just do under the carpet, in the doors, trunk lid and inside the trunk
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