2 x Fi Q 18" Wall build in a Celica T23

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10. March 2010

What's already done:

Wires are pulled through the car ( 2 x 0 gauge cables, and 3 pairs of RCA's, all from Kicker)

The car is partially deadened with Dynamat Extreme

Infinity Kappa Perfect 6.1 is installed in the front.

(The passive Xover was moved into the car a couple days later)

What's bought:

Clarion DXZ788RUSB CD player

Soundstream REF4.920 (4x145W rms @ 4 ohm)

Hifonics XX Colossus II (3200W rms @ 2 ohm)

Two Fi Q 18" D2 (1000W rms)

180A Iraggi alternator with lifetime warranty

Two Stinger Voltage meters, one to measure the Voltage at the front battery and the other to measure to battery bank at the back

Hushmat deadening, to be used in the trunck and roof.

Kicker Speaker wires

Kicker 50mm2 power wires

Tsunami 180A Circuit Breakers

Tsunami Battery terminals

Stinger Battery isolator

Bag with Stinger 50mm2 ring terminals

Various Stinger wire adapters, 50mm2 --> 21mm2 og 21mm2 --> 8mm2

Ctek XS 25000, 25A smart battery charger

The Fi Q Subwoofers:

The insides of the Colossus II:

Subwoofers that love big boxes:

What's left to buy:

NSB 75 and two NSB 125 batteries.

The a explaination on how you get two 18" in a vented enclosure in a small Celica... Well, I'm going to take out the rear seats and the enclosure is going to build so that the subs will be firing towards the front right behind the rear seats. The port will also be firing in the same direction, so that I get a nice breeze on warm summer days.

The enclosure will be about 450-550liters which is about 16-20cu.ft.

There will be a plexi glass plate between the enclosure and the roof so that I will not be obstructing the view through the back window.

The amplifiers will be placed on top of the enclosure.

I'll also make two fiberglass covers that will go on the front baffle and the roof of the enclosure, they will hide cables and cover any small openings on the sides between the enclosure and the car, those will be covered in grey/black vinyl to match the interior of the car.

Clarion cd player will be running the fronts actively with the Soundstream amp.

And the Ctek charger will be installed in the car, but it will be easy accessible so that I can take it out of the car if I need to charge something else.

That's the plan, now we're waiting on the weather gods to turn up the heat.

13. April 2010

Then the work starts:

Deadened the trunk today, beautiful weather today, +13C and no clouds.

The CD player I'm using now, a real beauty:

The 1" MDF plates that's bought:

The workshop and all the tools at school that I'll be using:

got to have some music while you work:

The trunk before:

All the cables waiting patiently to be used:

The room at my disposal:

My baby:

Got to eat to, dinner for my sister and me:

The result:

Lot's of deadening got used:

The car stereo waiting to be used:

18. April 2010:

Deadened the roof today:

19. April 2010:

Made a cardboard model of the enclosure, using a Kinetik HC1800 as a dummy battery:

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21. April 2010:

Started making the floors (got to love to have professional tools at your disposable for free ):

23. April 2010:

Motorshow at Fredrikstad started today. Here I met a very nice man that used to own the same car as I do, and through some talking he mentioned that I can have a fiberglass enclosure for free, since it's only taking up space in his garage. He had two Focal 13" subwoofer in it, I'll remove the front baffle and use the fiberglass mold in the bottom so that I can utilize the space from the wheel well:

The polish job I did on the show:

The stand vi had on the show (We won the best stand award ):

[Kanaworm$ 292]

Nice build! Looking forward to more progress pics!

[TRP 42]

Looks nice man, cant wait to see the whole thing built. Nice looking silvia!! Where are you from?

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Thanks guys. Yeah the Silvia is sweet, the car doesn't just look good, but it runs pretty good as well, on 0.6 bar it's producing 400-something on the wheels. It's a Nismo built Silvia.

I'm from Sarpsborg in Norway.

Edited April 26, 2010 by Dammed

[jcarter1885 995]

Keep it coming, nice looking cars and great equipment with an excellent set of tools to work with. :fing34:

[sefugi 166]

WOW!! That is some Awesome skin on your ride!!!! Tuned in....

[jakemw 0]

Props for all the work you have done so far! Geeez that is a ton!

[Randal Johnson 544]

awesome ...

[Dammed 12]

thanks for the comments.

Some more pictures for you all:

[Sir-Lancelot 216]

Looking good.

you are going to hurt that car.

[Dammed 12]

It's going to moan my name in the dark...

Update:

03 March 2010

The front baffle drawed in scale:

New CD player:

Annen farge:

11 March 2010

Disassembling the suspension:

12.05.10

The only sticker that will be on the car:

13 March 2010

I started with the first walls today, it's actually starting to look like a enclosure!

Carpenter skills :

14 March 2010

Sandblasting:

Edited May 14, 2010 by Dammed

[Bob345 39]

Lookin good man. I just ordered a new q 18 so I am interested to see how yours will turn out. Keep up the goog work

[ssh 924]

Love your build, everything is done so well

Can't wait for more pics on progress, keep it up

[PT3005 1]

nice i just got a 01 celica and prob going to put a lil system it it nothing to fancy and these pics helped out alot now i know what i need to install speakers in the door now thanks

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Thanks guys. I have taken a long break from the build because of the exams. But tomorrow I'll continue with the build.

Have a update for you all though:

22.05.10

I started to fill the gap between the fiberglass mold and my floor with some fiberglass. I used a method I learned from a forum buddy until I didn't have anymore resin for fiberglass. (Let the fiberglass soak in the resin before you put it on, much more messy but a lot easier to mold the fiberglass into place.) So I looked around at the schools workshop, and I found a big 20liters can with resin. The title said resin, and from my watching of hot rods on discovery channel I knew resin was something we call polyester which is used for fiberglass. So I smelled it, looked at the color and it looked good. So I mixed it up with my hardener and started working with. Feeling pretty good since I would be done tonight.

Paint workshop at my school:

Resin I thought was Polyester:

The day after I was pretty busy with my colorful words that would have made a old fisherman blush. So I didn't take any pictures. Resin is a apparently a English word used for many different types of sh***, this turned out to be Epoxy... So it didn't dry pretty good. So I started taking of the fiberglass soaked in epoxy and then I rubbed the surface with acetone, to clean away the epoxy while many colorful words on English, Bosnian and Norwegian bounced off the walls. They say burned children learns best, and this kid here has learned his lesson. Never EVER use something you're not 110% sure what is. I have never had to clean something that's so hard to get rid off.

But after that wonderful experience, I went to Biltema (cheap place to get your hardware, something like Home Depot) to buy some correct Resin and I finished the sides:

After it was cured I went to the Concrete test lab to see if it's airtight:

Hmm, apparently it isn't... The mold I got from a friend let water out like a bloody sieve. So I let it dry and then I laid two layers of fiberglass and a lot of resin to seal the bottom. That did the trick and now it's airtight like a can of beans.

Some pictures of how it looks inn the car:

And here will a Carputer be placed to the autumn:

Then some pictures of the Monster that will power my babies:

Shopping trip for a barbecue party, all the essentials...

The biggest contender on the party:

About a week ago I bought my batteries. I went for Stinger batteries, got them for the same price as Odyssey, so why not. I bought one SPP1200 and two SP2150 and I connected them to my Ctek XS25000 battery charger and have had them on maintenance charging for about a week now. A picture of them when I first got them:

Edited June 27, 2010 by Dammed

[sefugi 166]

Things are lookin' good! Can't wait to see that enclosure come together.

[Moparbass28 0]

Looks good.

[acex3a 5]

those cteks are awesome! we use them for all the cars at my job. and i got a couple home now.

awesome work on this build must be nice to have all those tools!

[SPL_Man 20]

nice job man

but i must say all those little holes u made in the front doors (im guessing to probably have access to those moving parts inside) will lessen the midbass effect a little bit since those holes are like air leaks because the concept is to get ur door to be like a enclosure

otherwise its coming along nicely

[Julian 641]

Tuned in for this.

[Dammed 12]

Started to make the sides:

Loaded all the sides and some rests, and the coilovers:

I placed all the sides to take a look at what I'm actually building:

The place beneath the enclosure (the boxes are models of my batteries):

Bought some new tools:

And I started up a router for the first time:

The hole was round at least: ^^

Not perfect, this is the start and end, the rest was nice and round:

I used a file to make the start/end nice and round. With some fabric it will not be noticeable:

Looks kinda massive in the car...

Looks good with the sub in it's place:

Got the windows tinted:

New license plate:

The carpark at home:

[jcarter1885 995]

Looking good, keep up the progress.

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Bought a new cd player, a Pioneer RS-D7RII, DEQ-P90 and RS-P50. I'll be using the DEQ-P90.

[bassahaulic 155]

Looking great man!!