Hey Ruckus Thanks. I can kick myself but no unfortunately not, I don't have any build pics Mostly because everything was done after hours late into the night with no help You know how it goes. The sub box,sub covers and amp covers was made out of superwood, the amp cover being layered. The rear speakers I can easily put in pods because they are basically already boxed They just need a bottom and they will be sealed because they are also in a layered type back board. I really didn't want to cut into my car so do you reckon the two ports I put in line with the ports that was already in the rear shelf will let the bass through all right? Initially I didn't want to put speakers on the rear shelf but seeing as I already had them I thought I might as well use them! The dash I made using about an inch thick piece of Balsa wood. The same wood used to make model airplanes because its nice and soft and easy to shape I copied the shape of the original dash and added a smaller similar "drop down section" as on the original dash to the right of steering wheel for my new switch panel. To give the dash rail the required depth I screwed a strip of plate from the top. This plate also gave me leading edge used two pin the leather with original chrome molding that came of the original dash
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15 downloads I used the same wood to make the switch panel Shaping it into the basic panel shape, drilling holes for the switches and making a new face plate out of metal plate to house the switches The original chrome surround was shortened and reused. I'll take photos of my templates that I used when making everything.
The reason I put the tweeters on the lower dash was originally I had them in pods that could swivel up but this became to bulky but they looked so good to me on the lower dash that I decided to keep them there. I angled the dash towards me a much as possible so now I can only hope for the best. Recently I found a rubberizing spray that gives an extremely lovely finish to wood, giving it a finish similar to plastic moldings of a modern car interior so I used this on all panels that wasn't covered with either wood or carpet..
My component list is as follows:
Receiver: Pioneer AVH-P5350DVD in dash DVD
Front splits: Rockford Fosgate Power T1652-S
Rear: Rockford Fosgate T152
"Speaker amp" : Audiobank 15oRMS 4 channel
"Sub amp": Rockford Fosgate 300.1
Sub: Rockford Punch 300 W RMS Shallow mount
Lastly, Next to my new switch panel you can see my water temp gauge This nasty one will be temperately hidden there until I can source an original one that will be put next to speedo on it's correct position. Thanx for looking
Edited by PJLaubscher, 05 December 2011 - 11:49 PM.