Hopefully the 18mm will do it, that's the biggest I could find online, if not I'll have to make some too, see how imc gets on with his 18mm.

Thanks for the tips , looks like gloves are a must.

I feel bad for the you regarding the wife sharing issue cankey...

 

Update:

I spent a couple of hours last evening making a start:



Old unit out:



Most of the time was spent dismantling the centre console and trying to route the connector for the iPod:



Which I still haven't sorted out. The main problem has been trying to route a wire with a bulky USB plug on the end through some very confined spaces, so I might try using a stiff piece of wire and some tank tape stuck to the USB to try to work it through from the area around the gear lever into the head unit enclosure. I'm hoping to do a bit more this afternoon. I connected the new head unit using only the Modifry loom adaptor just to make sure that it worked. This afternoon I hope to finalise the iPod adaptor and link up the DCI and (possibly) the speed-sensitive volume control.

As the centre console is in pieces, can somebody tell me what's the easiest way to remove the rubber gaiter at the base of the gear lever, as it seems a good opportunity to grease up the linkage.

More anon.


Ian

 

See my clutch change on axle stands DIY (search should bring it up). That's got removal of the gearstick in it.

 

Here you go mate; https://www.s2ki.com/home/2010/03/11...rease-shifter/

 

Thanks for the link. I've decided to leave the gear linkage for another day, and concentrate on the audio installation.

My experience of many years of working on cars kicked in last evening when I struggled to find a way to feed the iPod connector through to the head unit. The problem was trying to feed the USB connection through a small gap in the sheet metal ahead of the aperture for the gear lever without being able to see or feel the hole, which already had wires running through it. Faced with issues like this, I find that taking a break and sleeping on the problem enables me to come up with alternative strategies, and in this instance I had the idea of trying to feed a wire through from the other direction and then attaching the USB to the wire.

It took a few attempts, and despite the use of Gorilla Tape the wire detached itself the first time I tried, but eventually:



After that, it was relatively straightforward. I used the fitting brackets from the original unit, and it was all a bit tight, but it was in and working:





The cover closes properly as well!



I haven't yet worked out how to hide the cable to the iPod, but other than that the system works well:



I'm impressed with the Modifry harness and DCI, and I'll need to revisit the instructions to become familiar with the DCI functions. I think I bought the DCI without the speed-sensitive volume control, but I don't consider that to be an issue.

Tomorrow - the speakers!

 

The speakers.

Patience, as the saying goes, is a virtue.

Passenger door first. In the past I've installed sound systems in various cars, mostly VW GTI's. A decade or so of company cars meant that I am probably a little out of practice, and I've very quickly come to realise that the S2000 wasn't designed to be easy to work on.

Anyway, door panel removed, and much as expected:



The standard speakers were removed easily, then I needed to work out a means to mount the tweeters. The Alpine tweeters come with a variety of spacer rings, and by combining a couple of these I was able to use the standard mounting bracket:



The eagle eyed will note that I have cunningly mounted the crossover on one of the tweeter cover mounting screws. If you don't bother with the cover (which isn't waterproof anyway) then you can get away with it on the passenger door.

Dynamat on the door panels behind the speaker:



I cut off a strip of Dynamat to fit below the bar which runs along the door, then put the rest above.

Then I fitted the Modifry spacers:



The original speaker wires for the standard main speakers (they're not really woofers) with the addition of a connector and some additional speaker wire became the "input" to the crossover.

The driver's side was a slightly different proposition, as there was insufficient room to squeeze the crossover in next to the tweeter. Eventually I found that I could locate it on top of the polystyrene block, secured by that great standby of the race engineer and home mechanic alike, Gorilla tape. It's not going anywhere!

All of the starting in order to move the car a few feet coupled with lowering and raising the hood over the past couple of days has killed the battery, which was approaching the end of its useful life anyway, so that's it until I pay Si a visit on Tuesday. As I said earlier, patience is a virtue. The speaker installation took about 7 hours in total, but should be well worthwhile. I just need to set the system up, then I can enjoy it properly.

Hopefully, this may be of some use to anybody contemplating their own upgrade. Just allow plenty of time!


Ian

 

Done yet? I'm instaling the same speakers atm

 

Yes!

Well worth the money and effort. I had a problem with the head unit not recognising my iPod, but it worked with my other iPod, and I spent some time yesterday setting it up.

There's no point in putting a photo up of the new speakers, because it will look just like a standard door.

I had no problems at all, apart from positioning the crossovers. The Modifry speaker spacers are ace, but I don't know whether Bob plans to make any more. If you look at my photo of the spacer in situ, you can see that it's flat at the bottom and has a chamfer on the top at the front, so there were no interference problems when I fitted them.

 

I will make my own as cba to import from the US

Thats the next job for me

 

Mine are custom mounts.