pimpedout97x

LOL i know

about 500 lbs total in all (4-5 amps, all mids/highs, sub, box, 2 batteries, etc. and i know about the value, i plan on keeping this car until its not worth anything anyways (motor starts giving out) i like driving it, its a fun car. testing things out

na, its solid as hell as it is. double baffled all around, plus 2x4s on the outside, plus 4 front baffles....not gonna move. i believe gross is like 13 cubes, net is somewhere around 9ish after port/sub/the notch at the top for the mids/highs

thanks

good to hear. my friend has 2 1500ds, they are absolute beastly amps. very strong, and look nice too.

its just sitting

this didnt come out as easy/well as i planned, but i will deal with the tiny imperfections later. once covered in material, you wont see. took the tape off the back, this is how it turned out. good enough for me. cant even tell whats inside

that's your opinion, bud. 18" mt on 3kw rms

you wouldnt see it though. headliner trim covers that. lol

im keeping this til the motor starts breaking anyways. no big deal.

holes in the trim?

not removable as in take it out today, put it in tomorow... removable as in, if i ever want to take it out, i can put the back seats back in, nothing is drilled to the interior panels, in the back, so it could be returned to stock, but i dont see that happening for a while. but i still have all the stuff if i ever have to take this out (sell car) or whatever. even the sunroof thing, that will come off and can look factory....just will take a lil work.. but i dont change cars often, i keep cars for a long time.

this is all for the night, but this was tricky, lol. keep in mind, this is my first wall IVE built on myelf, 100% those little pieces are what the angled trim pieces will screw too, and glue to as well. OH NOES.......someone handed me a tite bond bottle.........LOL im gonna remove those screws in the morning, the glue should be enough to hold it. nothing should rattle at all back there.

forgot these posts- did a bit today.. the cardboard templates took FOREVER......but its worth it letting it dry for the night. this is going on tomorow.

i really like how this is turning out. im very happy with it so far. making a card board template...piece by piece. this is what takes the most time. the money shots

bolted down, with lock washers..its secure..not gonna go anywhere they werent completely tightened down in this pic started the rear "beauty panel" the sides im going to finish tomorow, it was a bitch just making the top piece to fit snug with the headliner, let alone the curves of the side panels...card board FTW gonna do a false floor, something like this the beauty panel, touching the headliner. its gonna be a PITA to tuck the black vinyl under that when i go to cover it. thats all for today

lol @ the air freshener tight fit...ill trim that off just to release the pressure against the headliner figuring out how i want to cover this up with suede.... hit this getting the box in..good thing it hit that, and not my suede, lol

got this big MF'er in today..........i changed the thing up top for my 6.5s, and it didnt quite fit thru the door, so i had to take it off, and ill just remount it in a little while, but the box is in the car...FOR GOOD this time. all the trim is finished and covered in suede/vinyl cleaned up a little bit...it was DIRTY...

i know how much you guys think this is ghetto, which im not gonna argue. its very ghetto. but itll work and protect from leaking as much as possible (from the pressure pushing on the inside of the glass) anyways, i deadened inside and outside (outside, meaning on top of the roof, but under the sunroof glass) it really made a difference, made it alot stiffer, and hopefully will help with some of the rattling. also, just to mention incase you were wondering, i considered getting the sunroofs taken out, and having sheet metal welded in. well i talked to a body shop, a guy that i know, he does PERFECT work and always hooks me up, he said itll be hard and take alot of work to get the metal to match the curve of the roof, and look right. then you have to brace it inside, etc. i said well what if we put on a new roof, with no sunroof. hes like ya ill help you, but i forgot...you have to take off ALL the glass. not happening. plus, on top of that, the new roof is $550 from MINI. plus paint most likely to paint it JB. anyways, pics-

what i did with the sunroof just now looks factory, right? painted that bish reason for painting was so in sunlight, you dont see this through the glass. self tapping screws FTW inside- pics later today of how it will all get covered in suede, so dont think its just going to be bare wood inside the car. to completely seal it................

dyed a few things random pic well, im sealing the sunroof up, i figured out how im going to do it, just didnt take pics. im off tomorow so all day im going to work on the car and get the box back in tomorow. but i first took off the sunroof with a good plan in mind to seal the sunroof, and it would have worked, but i didnt realize that i wouldnt have been able to re-screw the glass back to the roof LOL...so ill post pics tomorow on how im doing this...basically i took the sunroof off for nothing, putting it back on was a PITA!!!!!

got my rear side panels back. some of you will most likely not like how i did this, but i only paid 50 bux (labor) for the headliner, a/b/c pillars, and the 2 side panels to be covered. the box will soon be re-installed now that i have these back, and i will then start to cut out the trim/flush panels and it will really start coming together now. the box will cover inside the red square. why spend more money, and make it harder to cover, when itll never be seen? if i ever take this out, which i doubt i will, ill prally just end up driving this car til it doesnt drive anymore, then sell it for whatever i can. but if i do take the wall out, ill just take those 2 back panels, and at that point in time, i will get them covered. no need to now, IMHO.

keep lookin for the ta92001 if thats what you want, run that @ 1 ohm to the pair of BL's

not bad for brand new 3500+ wrms @ 1 ohm

all the TA series amps are discontinued and were replaced by the TE (thunder elite) a different look, same amps really. they dont have as many models though as the TA "super" amps. the TA's can be had online and ebay only...unless any big dealers may still have some. MTX has some they can sell, but they are refurbs, for warranty purposes. but ya the ta92001, there was a guy on ROE that sold one a month ago for 350 shipped MINT!!!!!!!!! i could kill myself that i didnt get it.....