dr_sharp Posted May 31, 2010 Share Posted May 31, 2010 What I used: Sound Deadening Constrained Layer Damper (CLD) Tiles (i.e. dynamat) from Sound Deadener Showdown (SDS) Vinyl/Nitrile Closed Cell Foam, both 1/4 and 1/8-in. thick from SDS Mass Loaded Vinyl (MLV) - acquired at no cost but identical to the SDS product Butyl Tape - 1/8-in. thick x 1/2-in. wide x 30 ft. - $3.95 off of ebay 8 oz can HH-66 Vinyl Contact Cement from SDS - comment from after-the-fact: this product was not necessary Audio Infinity Kappa 60.9CS Infinity Kappa 62.9i Infinity Kappa Four Infinity Kappa 100.9w JBL GTO3501 Stereo Clarity Hidden Enclosure Wiring/Misc 2 sets of RCA from local car audio shop 20 ft of 4 gauge wire from Lowes 10 ft of both red and black 8 gauge wire from Lowes 20 ft 22 gauge wire for amp remote turn on Male and Female subaru wiring harness from Amazon (SU03B & SU03RB) Misc. connectors from Radio Shack and Lowes About 100 ft. of 18 gauge speaker wire from Radio Shack 60A fuse + holder under hood Power distribution block - single 4awg to two 8awg 2 additional sets of female rca connectors for oem stereo low level outputs First 5 pictures: Removal of interior Last 6 pictures: Solder points for pulling 2Vrms low level line outs from factory head unit (thanks to utc_pyro) lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr_sharp Posted May 31, 2010 Author Share Posted May 31, 2010 First 3 pictures: modifying wiring harness. Taking out unecessary pins for speakers. Also added a pin in slot 14 for dimmer. Next picture: installed 2-way into rear door. Last 4 pictures: installation of front woofer using modified factory speaker. NOTE: the woofer currently hits the inner door panel. I need to modify this so it does not make contact - see last picture. [edit] very last picture: You need to remove this 'cork' portion of the factory speaker mount in order to keep the aftermarket speaker from hitting the inner door panel. You can pull it right off. After that, you'll have to dremel or otherwise cut the outer plastic ring off so the speaker can sit flush with the plastic portion of the mount that is behind the cork portion that you just removed. lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr_sharp Posted May 31, 2010 Author Share Posted May 31, 2010 First 6 pictures: modified factory tweeter to fit new tweeter + mount. Last 3 pictures: holes drilled into door panel for mounting crossover. lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CDN 2.5i Posted June 10, 2010 Share Posted June 10, 2010 Is it done? So far, you've only posted the 'before' pics Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr_sharp Posted June 10, 2010 Author Share Posted June 10, 2010 I just started on the deadening earlier this week. I will add pictures soon. I hope to be completely finished with the deadening by the weekend. lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr_sharp Posted June 16, 2010 Author Share Posted June 16, 2010 pictures added. more to come. lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SubaruFanatic Posted June 21, 2010 Share Posted June 21, 2010 does the sound deadener make it sound differently besides keeping everything from falling apart? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr_sharp Posted June 22, 2010 Author Share Posted June 22, 2010 I'll tell you when I finish! I still have the back seat out and have the passenger door to finish. This was a seriously long process. I've installed or helped install more than 10 stereos in my day and I can tell you that sound deadening is a complete task of its own. Unfortunately, all of my sound freak friends are 1000+ miles away so I had to do this alone over the course of several weeks. I just put the kappa 100.9w in with the hidden box and it sounds outstanding... even with my old overheating JBL amp... the new amp should be here friday. This will almost certainly be finished by next weekend. Of the many hours I've put into this, I'd say that 1/2 of them were devoted to sound deadening. The other half of my time was devoted to installing speakers,fabricating woofer and tweeter mounts from the factory speakers, running wiring, soldering the wiring on the factory stereo for rca connectors, and actually taking the car apart. There are so many little things that you overlook easily and have to go back to finish. I had to go back and ground the rca lines at the head unit. I had to go back and grind the paint where the amps were grounded. I had to go back and wrap the speaker connections with electrical tape. I had to go back and re-JBweld the first tweeter mount that I fabricated I had to go back and modify the woofer mounts since they were hitting the inner door panel I guess these are things that I should know after doing so many installs, but it has been 5+ years since I've touched an aftermarket car stereo product lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SubaruFanatic Posted June 22, 2010 Share Posted June 22, 2010 sounds like you had alot of problems with your install.... my kappa's didn't hurt and i just put my tweeter in the stock mounting braket it snapped right in. and I think I want to just do the trunk to keep the sub from killing my car i have a kicker 15" l7 with a 1000 watt alpine amp. my rear view mirror keeps coming off damnit!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr_sharp Posted June 22, 2010 Author Share Posted June 22, 2010 Lol, I've heard of others having that problem too... or maybe it was you from another thread? With one 350W 10" kappa I hope I won't have that problem... Which version of the Kappa components do you have? The older versions have smaller tweeters that would have fit perfectly like you mention. These were like 1.5" diameter and wouldn't fit without modification Now, I noticed last night that my headlights are dimming pretty badly on bass hits... with ONLY the sub installed running from my old P180.2... that is, 360W rms and about 700W peak. I'm going to do the "big 3" and see what happens... lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CDN 2.5i Posted June 22, 2010 Share Posted June 22, 2010 Stock alternator is anemic... i did the big3 and it didn't really help much at all. What did help was swapping to HIDs. I don't get any dimming and I'm running a JL 500/1 with the JL Stealthbox. Don't bother with a capacitor either. They won't help and you probably have built in capacitance in the amp anyhow. Bottom line, either upgrade your alternator or consider switching to HIDs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
executor485 Posted June 22, 2010 Share Posted June 22, 2010 HID's + Yellow Top = th3 sex with my 500/1 and 300/4. No issues at all. If I pass you on the right, I'm flipping you off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CDN 2.5i Posted June 23, 2010 Share Posted June 23, 2010 HID's + Yellow Top = th3 sex with my 500/1 and 300/4. No issues at all. Yah, I run a yellow top too but with a 500/1 and the stealthbox pounding, it's not hard to get the lights to dim, but you need to be trying... Regular usage, no problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr_sharp Posted June 24, 2010 Author Share Posted June 24, 2010 I'm so close... this sucks waiting on the new amps. I've procrastinated another night on finishing the last door. I 'officially' installed the magden tonight. It fits like a champ under the passenger seat. I'm hoping that it won't slide around but we shall see. lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ece_tim Posted July 1, 2010 Share Posted July 1, 2010 Bump for updates Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teK-- Posted July 3, 2010 Share Posted July 3, 2010 Very neat job. I love the Alcantara trim mmmmm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billy8783 Posted July 3, 2010 Share Posted July 3, 2010 I've been putting off installing my stereo for too long now... mine is going to be a little different though... I'm just doing door speakers, 4 channel amp, and a Rockford Fosgate 360.2 sound processor... I'm not sure yet if I should do sound deadening though... without subs, I don't think it will be quite necessary. I am both excited and hesitant about the sound processor though... it will be awesome once it's in (150 band EQ PER CHANNEL!!) but it's going to be a lot of wiring, and i'll need to gut the interior to run all the wires and fab up speaker mounts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CentralScrutinizer Posted October 14, 2010 Share Posted October 14, 2010 got any pics of the cld tiles in the doors? did you use any butyl rope? how are the results? more info please! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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