Things I will cover is the parcel shelf, sub box, speaker pods, equipment, amp rack & sound deadening. Here goes!
Firstly lets look at what she looked like when we first got her home.
The first thing I did was to decide where the speakers were going, what size they would be & what angle would best suite them. After doing that I used a 3mm piece of MDF for the base, cut a ring out of 12mm & used 8mm round dowl & screwed it together. Once I moved things round & got the angle I wanted I then covered it all in some stretchy lycra type material & using fiberglass resin soaked it.
Once it had gone off I covered it in some layers of chopped strand mat & resin until I thought it was hard enough. Using quick sand body filler I smoothed the shape out, painted it with a couple of layers of colour & laquered to finish.
It ended up looking like this:
and installed with the door card I made.
Next was the Head Unit. I'm using an old Sony (before the went to cheap crap) competition HU,CDX-C90R. It has awesome sound with dual 20bit DAC but the only problem with it is the back light is unreadable in daylight, very frustrating. Anyway, to mount it I made up a small dash board to fit next to the dials which would house the HU & 2 52mm gauges.
This is about the only pic I have of it while installing.
And pretty much how it looks now.
Next was the Parcelshelf. It's made from 9mm MDF on the base & rings cut from 12mm. I traced the shape from the old factory one then fettled the edges to get it fitting properly.
The original idea was to have the sub in the boot so the middle grill was made as a vent. The speaker rings were positioned on top of wedges of mdf to get the angle I wanted then using body filler I made the shepe before sanding it all down.
Getting the smoothed edges to match involved a lot of sanding & rechecking. Once it was all smoothed out it was covered in the same vynal as the door cards. (Black vynal from Dunelm Mill)
