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Pudding is good.
Well, after nearly a year since first buying the car, system is fully installed, fully tuned and sounds fully freaking awesome. Big thanks to Speakerworks in Orange, CA for their outstanding job at re-doing a really, really bad install that I had done at a cheapo shop. Folks, it's been said a million times but still remains true: You get what you pay for.
The plan was a basic re-install of everything the other shop did. Even if I didn't know of any problems (like with the alarm) I told them to reinstall it all to find every last screw-up the other shop did. So if it looks a little plain jane compared to the flashy stuff some of y'all do, that was the order. I simply had no more $$$ to go hog-wild on the install, so basic was their marching order.
Equipment list:
Alpine:
IVA-W200 double din DVD w/touchscreen
PXA-H701 processor
NVE-N872a nav system w/XM Traffic & voice control
CHA-S634 6-disc changer
PDX 1.1000 sub amp with 1124W per the birth sheet
PDX 4.150 bridged to 314W per channel for the front stage
PDX 2.150 pushing 171W per channel to the rear fill
Boston:
Two G512-44 12" subs getting 500W+ each @ 4 ohms
A pair of Z6s mounted coaxially in the factory mounting locations in the doors
A pair of SL80s providing the rear fill
Motorola IHF-1000 voice activated Bluetooth hands free kit
80gig iPod filled to the brim with Apple Lossless rips of most of my CD collection, roughly 2,600 songs
Backup camera
Two 1.5 farad caps
Optima yellow top with wire upgrades
1/0 wire to the distrib block, 4ga to the amps,
12ga to front and to the subs, 16ga to the rear
a 2-way paging alarm, details are classified //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif
Doors completely deadened & sealed, trunk completely deadened as well. (They were supposed to take pictures while it was being installed, but forgot. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crap.gif.7f4dd41e3e9b23fbd170a1ee6f65cecc.gif )
Anyhow, for this thread, I'll only show the good. The bad and the ugly I will save for the review I am gonna give the original shop in the review section of the forums.
First, the car: 2006 Ford Mustang GT Convertible
Head Unit: Alpine IVA-W200 + PXA-H701 (not shown) Note the flush mounting, had 3 different shops tell me that it wasn't possible with this head unit. This proves that they were wrong.
Note the Motorola IHF-1000 hands free kit and the super clean install of the Voice-Activation button for the Alpine NVE-N872a nav unit. Also, towards the bottom, the alarm LED is in an unused button next to the AC button, first shop told me it couldn't be put there.
The trunk was gonna be a challenge because, being this is a Mustang convertible, there is not much room. In that tight trunk, they had to get two 12" subs, a CD changer, a Nav system, a processor, three XM boxes (XM radio, XM NavTraffic and XM digital adapter), two caps and three amps. Even more problematic was the fact that it seemed next to impossible to get enough venting to keep the air pressure from blowing through the trunk lid seals causing a horrible buzz (yes, ladies & gents, the car was farting with every bass hit).
So they installed the sub box where the spare tire was and then sort of 'horn loaded' all of the air right through the rear seat (without modifying the rear seat one bit). The result was ultra clean look and great sound. And so much bloody bass that I keep it turned down to between 4 and 6 (of a possible 15) lest I shake my fillings loose. Actually those are the settings I use for rock & jazz, when I wanna bump I go to about 8 or 9 which gives me enough sound pressure to make your scalp tingle and make you a little dizzy.
I love the way they did the amps...
CD Changer & Nav, the custom trunk mat is slightly out of place in this shot causing it to ride up on the nav unit. It actually looks pretty clean normally.
Under the hood:
My plans are to add midbass in the factory sub enclosures in the doors, go 5.1 surround and maybe add some staging tweets to bring the stage up a little bit.
But first, I gotta finish paying off what you see here.//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/blackeye.gif.66a1670f5aaf7f406e783a63e3387dc5.gif
The plan was a basic re-install of everything the other shop did. Even if I didn't know of any problems (like with the alarm) I told them to reinstall it all to find every last screw-up the other shop did. So if it looks a little plain jane compared to the flashy stuff some of y'all do, that was the order. I simply had no more $$$ to go hog-wild on the install, so basic was their marching order.
Equipment list:
Alpine:
IVA-W200 double din DVD w/touchscreen
PXA-H701 processor
NVE-N872a nav system w/XM Traffic & voice control
CHA-S634 6-disc changer
PDX 1.1000 sub amp with 1124W per the birth sheet
PDX 4.150 bridged to 314W per channel for the front stage
PDX 2.150 pushing 171W per channel to the rear fill
Boston:
Two G512-44 12" subs getting 500W+ each @ 4 ohms
A pair of Z6s mounted coaxially in the factory mounting locations in the doors
A pair of SL80s providing the rear fill
Motorola IHF-1000 voice activated Bluetooth hands free kit
80gig iPod filled to the brim with Apple Lossless rips of most of my CD collection, roughly 2,600 songs
Backup camera
Two 1.5 farad caps
Optima yellow top with wire upgrades
1/0 wire to the distrib block, 4ga to the amps,
12ga to front and to the subs, 16ga to the rear
a 2-way paging alarm, details are classified //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif
Doors completely deadened & sealed, trunk completely deadened as well. (They were supposed to take pictures while it was being installed, but forgot. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crap.gif.7f4dd41e3e9b23fbd170a1ee6f65cecc.gif )
Anyhow, for this thread, I'll only show the good. The bad and the ugly I will save for the review I am gonna give the original shop in the review section of the forums.
First, the car: 2006 Ford Mustang GT Convertible
Head Unit: Alpine IVA-W200 + PXA-H701 (not shown) Note the flush mounting, had 3 different shops tell me that it wasn't possible with this head unit. This proves that they were wrong.
Note the Motorola IHF-1000 hands free kit and the super clean install of the Voice-Activation button for the Alpine NVE-N872a nav unit. Also, towards the bottom, the alarm LED is in an unused button next to the AC button, first shop told me it couldn't be put there.
The trunk was gonna be a challenge because, being this is a Mustang convertible, there is not much room. In that tight trunk, they had to get two 12" subs, a CD changer, a Nav system, a processor, three XM boxes (XM radio, XM NavTraffic and XM digital adapter), two caps and three amps. Even more problematic was the fact that it seemed next to impossible to get enough venting to keep the air pressure from blowing through the trunk lid seals causing a horrible buzz (yes, ladies & gents, the car was farting with every bass hit).
So they installed the sub box where the spare tire was and then sort of 'horn loaded' all of the air right through the rear seat (without modifying the rear seat one bit). The result was ultra clean look and great sound. And so much bloody bass that I keep it turned down to between 4 and 6 (of a possible 15) lest I shake my fillings loose. Actually those are the settings I use for rock & jazz, when I wanna bump I go to about 8 or 9 which gives me enough sound pressure to make your scalp tingle and make you a little dizzy.
I love the way they did the amps...
CD Changer & Nav, the custom trunk mat is slightly out of place in this shot causing it to ride up on the nav unit. It actually looks pretty clean normally.
Under the hood:
My plans are to add midbass in the factory sub enclosures in the doors, go 5.1 surround and maybe add some staging tweets to bring the stage up a little bit.
But first, I gotta finish paying off what you see here.//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/blackeye.gif.66a1670f5aaf7f406e783a63e3387dc5.gif
