hondakilla98

Thanks John.

Mlv is mass loaded vinyl, a noise barrier. CCF Is a decoupler, to stop vibration from the panel behind the mlv from resonating through. Check out http://www.sounddeadenershowdown.com/ for more info.

I will be removing the factory 6x9's, carpet and the factory sub is already out. There is about 6" above the box of free space, so it's not really any different than any other trunk install with the subs and ports firing rearward. The box will be symetrical, so I can always try it out firing forward. I'm not sure yet. I'll probably make some brackets to tie into the rear seat bracing and the rear deck to hold the box since I can't secure it on the bottom. My girl wants a false floor to stash a go bag, and to make it easier for her short ass to reach the bottom of the trunk. So I can't go too shallow with it. I need to take some measurments and see what my options are. But right now I just want to get everything playing. I'm not expecting a big difference in noise reduction. The car is already super quiet. And I won't be able to compare the sound of the mids, since they were replaced at the same time. But if I notice a difference I'll let you know.

Here it is with the adaptor painted and wire run through the boot into the car. Tweeters I'll be using, mounted in some mdf rings. This will be the temporary location for these until I do pillars. They aren't wired yet.

Thanks. It's 70 and sunny today, so I'm making a little more progress. Here's the door with the Velcro in place to hold the mlv. The Velcro on the mlv, ccf glued to the mlv and cut out for the Velcro. The mlv and ccf installed ready for the door panel. I took the adaptor off to paint it before I put everything back together. I also traced the outline of the mlv on another piece of mlv for the other door. While I'm waiting for the paint to dry, I'm going to work on running speaker wire through the door boot.

I finally had another dry day to work on it. Hopefully tomorrow will be another.

I've decided to go with 2-4" aero ports instead of the kerf port. And I started installing my door speakers today. Here are some pics. Here is the door with some deadener and butyl rope installed. Some shots of the inside of the door. Here's the adaptor traced out. Adaptor cut out. Speaker test fit in the adaptor. Adaptor side shot Adaptor and mid installed. Adaptor, mid, deadener, etc installed And I got the ccf mostly cutout today.

You could have toolmaker make you some 90 degree reducers.

I haven't had a car that I could run kicks in. I'm a big guy and have size 16 feet. So there's generally not any extra space. I've had components in the doors, and components with the mid in the door and the tweet on the dash or A pillar. The last set I had were Focal Access 165 a1's with the tweets off axis, on the A pillars. They sounded decent, but the stage seemed a little low. The crossover on them was around 5k. When I went active and replaced the Focal tweets with the HDS tweets I have now, I started lowering the crossover point. As the crossover point went down, my stage became higher. The HDS tweets have a clean FR down to 1.8-2k. With some eq I have had them crossed at 1.6k and they sounded great. I'm not willing to change the location of my mids to get better staging, so I did the next best thing. I moved as much of the high frequency up and on axis as I could. What was really lacking with the Focal mids was midbass. It was almost non existant. So that was one of my goals for mids. The HDS look good, but bigger is better, So when I saw John's car with the Neo 8's. I started thinking.

I have been accumulating equipment for a while. Originally I was going to be installing everything in my 96 Eldorado. Things change and now I'm finally making progress installing everything in my new ride. An 03 Lincoln town car. I've spent some time talking with BigJon here on the forum. He has large format teeters on his A pillars and Sundown neo 8's in his doors. I originally wanted 8's for the Cadillac, but they wouldn't work without modifying the door panels. So I bought Peerless Nomex 7" 830875 for my mids, and large format Scan-Speak Discovery D2608/9130 for my highs. Now I'm wondering if I should stick with the 7's or switch them out for 8's that I know will fit behind the factory panels. My sub stage will consist of 3 sa8's ported, running off an SAZ-1500D. My front stage will be running active off an alpine PXA-H100 crossover, and be powered by an MB Quart DSC-4125. I had a lot of help choosing the speakers I have now. The fact that Sundown hasn't released any specs besides an fr graph that wasn't done to any standard that's comparable apples to apples doesn't help either. So let's hear your opinions.

I want to cross the tweeters as low as possible, to raise my soundstage. I had them installed in my Jeep on the dash for a while and had them crossed at 1.6k 24DB slope. And some focal 6.5's down in the doors. They sounded great and really raised the stage, but I wasn't running them very hard either. So I'll have to get them installed and see. The main reason I was asking, is because M5 commented before. He was concerned about how high the 7's could play and how low the tweeters could play. I think I'll just install the 7's and see how it sounds. I just hate redoing work, which is why I started this thread.

This is looking like a very clean and well planned install. Nice work.

The highs will be on axis, chin height on the A pillar. The mids will be in the factory location in the doors, about knee level. They will be crossed between 1.2k and 2k, it will depend on how low I can get the highs to play.

Looking good Lunchbox. It's still weird to see you adding weight to a Camaro, lol.

Nice planning and great execution so far. I like your simple and creative solution for the doors. Your sub setup sounds interesting as well.

You gotta love this forum. You just saved some money and time.

Is this a build log or a bitch fest? The build looks good Steve, and hopefully soon your build log will be back on track. Maybe a Moderator could step in and clean up the thread, or just have certain people post somewhere else.

Let me know how the diode mod goes, I'm interested to try that on my car.

Looking good Jon. I'm looking forward to having that alt in my town car.

I haven't been able to find a good post detailing the differences and improvements between the V1 and V1.5 SA8. If Jacob or someone else that knows could post up I'd appreciate it. Also is the motor the same on all SA8 v1/v1.5? I've seen two different basket styles. Can they be run together? I'm getting some old SA8 v1 motors and need some info. I've emailed Jacob as well, so if I get info from him I'll post it here.

Hey Jon, What do you have the neo 8's crossed at on the top and bottom? Are you running them each off one channel of the 100.4?

I'm also trying to decide what to do with the two amps and battery. I could take out the spare tire, put the battery in the well for the bottom of the tire. And then build an mdf rack to mount both amps above the battery. Then I could put the spare tire cover back on and all you would see is the sub box sitting on top of the gas tank. Another option I'm considering is to do a false floor in the trunk with the battery, both amps stacked(with the top amp on a hinged plate to access the bottom amp), and a small storage area for a "go bag". There would be a hinged cover that would go on top and I'd, have a very useful, still good sized trunk. Option three is to do the battery and amps in the spare tire well and the false floor for the go bag, jumper cables, a small safe, etc... Here's a pic of the trunk as it is from the factory. Here is what would be under the false floor. Here's with the false floor in place. This still leaves me a nice usable trunk, and I wouldn't have to put grilles on the subs, since they sit up above anything I'd put in the trunk. I'll work on a different photo and cheesy "Paint" work for the other setup tomorrow. I figure ventilation will be easier with everything in the spare tire well. With this setup I think I'd have to have a bump on the right side by the spare tire cover, to run an intake and exhaust fan for cooling.

Here's what I'm thinking for the box, but with 3 subs instead of 4. Light grey on the box to match the trunk and black on the port and recessed baffle.

How many volt meters are you going to run? And why more than one?

I've decided to switch up my sub stage from 2 sa10's to 3 sa8's. I've been working on dimensions and box calculations and here is what I've come up with so far. Box outer dimensions with double baffle 41"wide, 10.5"tall, 17.875"deep gross box volume 3.214 cu ft sub displacement .08*3=.24 cu ft Slot port tuned to 33.6 hz 39.7" slot port volume .827 cu ft slot port wall displacement .14 cu ft total port displacement .96 cu ft 3.21 gross box volume -.24 sub displacement -.96 port volume -.02 for 2 vertical dowels 1.5" diameter -.01 for front wall to port wall dowel 1.5" -.015 for front wall to back wall dowel 1.5" -.04 45'd corners 1.925 cu ft net tuned to 33.6hz .64 per sub 500-550 watts per sub Which is right in line with Jacob's power vs box size post. If anyone sees anything off with this let me know. I'm buying 3 motors for cheap and reconing them to D4 so i can wire them to .66, I have more 1/0 wire on the way so I can put my second battery in, and do the big 3. And I'm buying Bigjon's H/O alternator soon. Which should give me adequate electrical.