Fiberglassed a system into my 350Z

[Ryan]

Great, you've added a giant butt hole to your car.

 

[Apex]

Originally posted by: ActiveTuning
LOL, somebody needs to represent central and east coast US. You guys have millions of places over there! Plus it's so expensive to live in CA.

BTW Apex, you know I'm Dave, I used to own SLCentral (www.slcentral.com)?

Hey, ah. That's where you went.

 

[halik]

looks great,
especially since it doesnt take up that much space in the trunk. The only think i dont like is the capacitor or something sticking out by the side of the amps

 

[Kenazo]

I love how smooth that all looks. I think I'll have to try that t-shirt/fiberglass thing sometime.

 

[Syringer]

Wow, never knew the Z was a hatch. Why didn't they make the G35 coupe a hatch too? My cousin has one and it would definitely increase the practicality of it by a whole lot.

 

[Shockwave]

Looks good. Dont particularly care for the color, but it does go well as a theme so it works. Didnt read, and couldnt quite tell, but did those amps say Clarion??

I wish my subs could get away with 2 layers of fiberglass My sub would ate that for breakfast i think.

 

[Scarpozzi]

Originally posted by: Kenazo
I love how smooth that all looks. I think I'll have to try that t-shirt/fiberglass thing sometime.

I totally need to practice my fiberglassing skills. I can't stand the smell of the resin....it drives me up the wall. I'll catch a wiff of it and will smell it for hours afterward just because it lingers in my nostrils that way.....ick.

 

[Preyhunter]

Gotta question here pertaining to your door speaker install...

Is it a wise idea to wrap the crossovers with bubblewrap and let them dangle loose inside the door? Is this something that most car audio installers do? I can understand that you're fine with that because it's your car and if the connections are secure and they don't come loose and there are no rattles then you have no worries, but I'd be a bit pissed if I paid someone to do an audio install in my vehicle and discovered that this had been donewithout my knowledge. Maybe this is completely acceptable in the install world and widely known, I don't know. I'm not in the install industry. All of my personal installations have included mounting the crossovers with screws.

 

[sygyzy]

How come you don't have NEXT navigation buttons? I hve to go back to the index and choose Part 2, Part 3, etc.

 

[ActiveTuning]

Originally posted by: Preyhunter
Gotta question here pertaining to your door speaker install...

Is it a wise idea to wrap the crossovers with bubblewrap and let them dangle loose inside the door? Is this something that most car audio installers do? I can understand that you're fine with that because it's your car and if the connections are secure and they don't come loose and there are no rattles then you have no worries, but I'd be a bit pissed if I paid someone to do an audio install in my vehicle and discovered that this had been donewithout my knowledge. Maybe this is completely acceptable in the install world and widely known, I don't know. I'm not in the install industry. All of my personal installations have included mounting the crossovers with screws.

You're absolutely right. Ideally it should be drilled onto the door....but everywhere on the door is glass behind it. The next best thing would have been to use a strong adhesive. They way I did it works find though

sygyvzy....lol the next navigation buttons are the HUGE images on the bottom of each article. Example:

http://www.activetuning.com/pat/4/5/i/part2.gif

 

[MikeMike]

im still sayin i want some money.

ActiveTuning, if you ever need some ideas for a project i can give you some

A-pillar mounted tweeters

edit: o yea, im linking you on another site i visit (soundillusions.net)

MIKE

 

[Curly01]

Fine looking glass job!

What kind of resin did you use, polyester or epoxy? Finish coating? Emron?

 

[Shockwave]

Originally posted by: nourdmrolNMT1
im still sayin i want some money.

ActiveTuning, if you ever need some ideas for a project i can give you some

A-pillar mounted tweeters

edit: o yea, im linking you on another site i visit (soundillusions.net)

MIKE

That can work really well, or really poorly, depending on the install. But I dont have to tell you that.

 

[MikeMike]

id have to wager on epoxy.

he just used body filler after initial sanding, bondo works also.

unsure of his finish coat.

MIKE

 

[Curly01]

I thought I saw a can of Evercoat polyester resin in one of the pictures. That would setup quicker than epoxy, even the quick setting epoxy.

Whatever was used they did a very good job. I never thought of using a t-shirt to get the shape close to what is needed.

 

[Squisher]

Very nice.

 

[Techie333]

WOW! You have really nice setup, BTW, I have same headunit in my SLK!! IT's schweeeet!! Pioneer Premier 850MP, yup!!

 

[ActiveTuning]

We used a polyester resin, and a PPG base/clear paint.

 

[Fritzo]

Originally posted by: FleshLight
I wish I was as rich as you

We have a couple of guys at our office that do this stuff with their cars. I wonder how they can afford the cars, much less all the gadgetry they put in them when they make less than I do. Then I went to one of their houses to pick up some pond rocks for my back yard, and from the looks of where they live, they CAN'T afford that stuff

 

[MasterAndCommander]

schweet setup dude!

Question about your amps: They are Polk/Momo C400.4 and the C500.1 right? Are you pretty happy with them? I've got the C500.1 and was thinking about getting the C400.4, but I haven't seen any reviews on it.

And another question about your capacitor setup, do you have it wired in series for both amps, or just the mono amp?

thx and great work!

 

[MikeMike]

Originally posted by: Shockwave

Originally posted by: nourdmrolNMT1
im still sayin i want some money.

ActiveTuning, if you ever need some ideas for a project i can give you some

A-pillar mounted tweeters

edit: o yea, im linking you on another site i visit (soundillusions.net)

MIKE

That can work really well, or really poorly, depending on the install. But I dont have to tell you that.

you dont have to tell me anything.

or he could do windsheild facing dash mounted tweeters, and some ribbon tweeters, but that would be a lot of research to get the tweeters to sound good, off axis.

MIKE

 

[Shockwave]

Originally posted by: nourdmrolNMT1


That can work really well, or really poorly, depending on the install. But I dont have to tell you that.

you dont have to tell me anything.

or he could do windsheild facing dash mounted tweeters, and some ribbon tweeters, but that would be a lot of research to get the tweeters to sound good, off axis.

MIKE[/quote]

I have to tell you my Windows logon. You dont know that DO YA SMART GUY!!

 

[Renob]

Wow, thats a GREAT job you did there.

 

[dmurray14]

Damnit man, is there a forum that you DIDN'T post this on? You posted this same exact thing on the Rennlist PORSCHE forums. Nice work, but you seriously need to stop posting it all over the internet!

 

[toant103]

i would love to do that but i need the Z first