I'm thinking of a new sound system in the bird....custom box to fit in upper trunk area. 2 amps, maybe tv/dvd/navi. Just wanted to see some of you guys set up's.
Thanks
Dave
Back in the day (3 Yrs ago) I had 2 12" Audiobahn Sound Q's I had them hooked up to a 1200 Watt Sony amp and it was super duper loud!
Well right now i have 2 of the old school 808's and thinking of making a small sealed box for them to fit right where the spare would be. To retain the rest of the trunk and save weight.
I had two 12" MTX Thunder 6000's with an MTX Blue Thunder 1502 Amp, right up against the back seat, and man they hit hard. Had to do some tricky dimensions to get it to fit under the torsion bars but man does it look(And sound) good.
The only pictures I have are it during the build. It now has very nice dark grey carpet with rattle can sealer underneath to help ward off moisture.
The box is built from 3/4" MDF, definitely not a lightweight.
Nice jrad im doing this in a 86. By any chances do u still have the measurements ? If so please can i get a copy. I'm going to use to old school 808 speakers, and i also have some w6 10's i may use. Don't wan't the gorilla in my trunk anymore. Just a nice clean hit. That 12 box looks nice.
Your 83 looks almost like my 86. Medium red with mesh wheels. I own 2 sets of meshes ,are's and enkie's 15 and 16's
Are you using 8's 10s or 12s? The only reason I had to slope it like that was because I wanted the 12's pointed somewhat into the back seat. You should have 12 inches of clearance from the the trunk floor to the tensioners, and if you go with 10" speakers, you can just build/buy a rectangular box for them. As for the dimensions, I could measure the outside of the box, but you would have to do all the subtracting for the thickness of material, and the slope uses some interesting angles.
Sorry, I am unfamiliar with the 808's.
the 808's are some old school 8" subs that my uncle had in his 80's jetta and man they hit hard.. He used them up until last yer then put them in the garage. So i thought why not make a box that would fit in that small space. but yes height ,length, and width please.
Thanks
David
Pioneer Avic D3
I've only had a chance to install the radio so far.
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Pics of the Sirius and Nav antenna
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Heres one of the reasons I can't work on the bird all the time-just got finished with the first phase of install in my Mustang.
Pioneer Z110
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8" Pioneer flat subs
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Since I'm posting pics here's some pics of my 94 Mustang convertible. I did this system in 2000-2001
15" Kicker Comps (free air)
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Nice very nice i was thinking of finding some free air's. Howw do they hit compared to a box? I see you did the works to the stang.
I'm just using all stock locations. All pioneer speakers and head unit with navi.
Maybe two 10's or one 12 or my uncles old 808 8" subs.
Has anyone seen the car computers?........I thought that would be hot with a megasquirt.
http://www.xenarc.com/product/index-pc.html
Thanks-tell you the truth I never had a box in my car with the 15's. I install systems and wanted to stay away from a box because the trunk in my convt is very small. Besides everybody I know with a Mustang has a box-i just wanted something different. Oh yes the 15'shiznit VERY HARD and low. The hard part is stopping the car from vibrating-a small fortune in Dynamat and hole lot of cursing and I have the vibration down to an acceptable level. Please keep the pics coming.
I say put the gauges over the head unit in the bird. That would be hot. But I'm really thinking of this car pc. Think it would make tuning so much easier and on the fly.
Haha now I feel ashamed of my system, thanks Kendoo!
As of now I have
Pioneer 4900ib
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Clarion 3.5s in the dash
Alpine Type S 6x5s in the doors
Alpine Type S 6x9s in the rear deck
10" Pioneer Premier Sub
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2 10" Thumps (I got them for free and they'll be gone soon)
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Concept 400 watt(?)
Kaption Audio 350 watt(?)
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6 guage power wire, a t splitter for the two amps.
Not all that much but it works for me.
Oh and Jrad your box is made out of particle board not MDF.
Any one with box measurements, please send away.
Thanks
Here's my sound system... (http://www.turbochuck.com/images/Tbird/Newtip_2.JPG)
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I can hear all my music fine. Rather have people know I'm coming by the rumble of exhaust.
lol@chuck i know that's right. I have not put on my stinger set up yet. I was thinking of using spintech's (pro street) lers.
Home Depot's got some s'plainin' to do! Aw hell what do I know, I was young and stupid at the time.
It worked back in the day!
302 pwr-can you post a pic with that box in the trunk-that thing is huge!! Can you even get to your spare tire?
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I went a little overboard with it. I haven't tried to slide the little dount under it but it might fit, the only thing is I'd have to take out the box just to get the spare. It has about 10" of space from the front of the box to the back of the trunk, just enough for my tool box, if you push the box back however it gets in the way of the latches and the trunk doesn't latch properly.
Like I said 3 10"s is a little overboard but I just love the look of it when I pop the trunk, plus when ever I upgrade the subs I have a sold foundation to work with.
Jrad- I'm sure that the particle board is a little lighter than MDF so it worked out in your favor.
302 your trunk is going to fall off lol.... I know that's a hard hitting trunk. I just wan't mine to fit up in that upper trunk spot and to clear the bars for the trunk. Man thats a hell of a box.....
Yeah, its a little big. When the car has a full tank of gas the ass sits really low and it looks like the shocks are gone. Someday down the line I'll make another one, thinking 2 12"s and custom amp racks built into the sides of the trunk, something very show inspired but clean.
I did 3 10s as well in a ported box,no pics right now as the car is away for the year though.
Mine sits 90% under the shelf.
I got a jensen flipout in the stock location. Have pioneer speakers in the factory locations powered by a diamond 400.4. Also have a single 10" RE SX in a prefab box set in the drop down part of the trunk powered by a american bass xd1000 amp. Its got plenty of kick for my liking. Also can remove the sub easily for autox.
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doesnt have navigation, but I would assume one that does would fit the same
Alpine head unit with aux input run through the glove box, 2 6.5" Pioneer component speakers with tweeters mounted on the plastic triangles by the window, tweeters in the dash, and Pioneer 6x9"s in the rear deck, run off of a 300W 4 channel Crunch amp, and 2 Kenwood 12"s in a flippin' huge box running off an overwhelmed 600W amp.
When I had this 87 red XR-7 back in the 90s, in high school, big sound systems were all the rage...
I had 2 American Bass 15" in a sealed box in the trunk (crossed over as low-low freq), 4 8" radio shack dual voice coil subs in the rear deck (crossed over as mid-low freq), 5.25 kickers in the door crossed as mids, 3.5 kickers in the dash crossed as tweets, and an extra set of tweets in the rear deck. I had 3 amps in the spare tire well- a sony 50x4 for the highs and mids, a radio shack 100x4 for the 8's and a rockwood (generic) 250x2 for the 15's.
Remember, I was like 17 or 18 when I put this system together, so the install was not that professional looking. I did have a professional make that rear deck for me though, and the box for the 15s. It sounded really good. Nice, clean, and loud.
I got to enjoy this system for about a year before it was mostly all stolen...
I posted pics of what I have in my 83 daily driver Here (http://"http://www.foxtbirdcougarforums.com/showpost.php?p=290370&postcount=2")
Do you have a side picture of the deck? I'd like to see how far it sticks out in order the clear the bezel.
Hey do you have any pictures of the tweeters mounted in the a pillar triangles? I'm interested to see how you did them.
just mounted the angle mount with the screw that's already there. i'll take pictures later today.
scratch what i said earlier... my system got jacked this morning. twice in the same year. i'm ready to move back to FL... :/
Been there. Sucks man. When they broke into my 87, they thrashed my window track, and when they ripped off my radio bezel, the holes in the dash broke out, so even a new bezel wouldn't hold. They tore my back seat out and threw it in the mud.
I was so upset...
I haven't put in an expensive system since. My cars have been broken into 4 times since, for no reason other than to rifle through my glove box. I don't know what they are looking for, but they must not find it. Nothing is ever missing.
I have cameras now, and motion lights. Nobody has got me in a while. It's the season for break-ins though...
That really sucks! What did they all take? Did they just bust a window?
I had my Cougar broken into a few years ago, they nabbed over $800 worth of audio, I even had a new set of Pioneer 6.5"s in the box waiting to be installed the next day.
Sorry to hear
took my alpine head unit, 300/4 crunch amp and a py 600 watt amp. left the 12"s and the box though surprisingly. busted out the L/R quarter window and took a screwdriver to the trunk lock.
that's just cold... as if stealing your stuff wasn't cold enough. effin' people can't just work hard for what they want and take it from the people that get it the honest way.
anyways, i just got back from buying a new deck, a Pioneer DEH-P880PRS with a CD-IB100 iPod adaptor and remote for 200 bucks off of craigslist. I'm sure I got a good deal. I'm pretty sure someone from here posted a review on epinions.com that i read while researching it too.
The quarter window too? I'd rather just have a door window smashed it would be a lot easier to replace. Again sorry to hear about this. You don't seem to rattled, I know I was ready to put the guys in a coma who messed up my trunk and such.
Anyway, enjoy the new deck sure looks nice.
i just try to look at the brighter side of things... car isn't stolen, dash isn't busted up, trunk lid wasn't pried open and bent, and it's a chance to upgrade! :D
This time shave your truck lock and reinforce the lock it self so you can't pry on it. I s what we do in d.c. the number ? stolen car city in the world. I like the new jvc double din with detachable face. but i really like the xnarc in dash computer with flip out. For when i upgrade to a megasquirt can tune right there in car.
$200 for the 880PRS and ipod connector is alright but I had issues that formed with the faceplate making contact with the headunit when I had one. The Pioneer 780mp I use seems to have solved that by using extra plastic to reinforce the angles and pressures placed on the face plate. Somehow the pins were acting like they were bent, yet they were all straight and pulling them outward didn't help any.
The 880 is really only worth the price ("lesser" models can do the exact same thing with the same DAC and stuff) if you switch it to its advanced mode and use it for a 3-way active crossovers (if you didn't know that it had this capability...). In normal mode it is the same as the 780/7800 models besides having a screen that I believe is a little easier to read in sunlight. The screen on the 780/7800 looks great otherwise. The 880 and 780 have served me well over the last few years but they will retire here soon for better things (secure in a garage).
I've got an alarm and soon to be cameras also, that will be triggered by a sensitive microwave sensor, recording to media stored far outside of reach of even me so that I have something to fall back on if I ever have problems again. I'd prefer they broke the quarter panel window than the door - it's like 5 nuts holding that thing on. When I had an issue years ago, they tore a hole in my door at the lock with like a crowbar and damaged both the trunk lock and tried to pry the trunk lock out. They didn't get in the trunk though, although there wasn't much value to anything anywhere in the car, even the $30 speakers. The damage to the car far exceeded the cost of the headunit that was stolen (I think it was $100 or just under). There's no need for expensive car audio if you don't have a garage to keep it in.
i plan on using advanced mode and tweaking it to awesomeness. i think i may have found glass as well. hard as hell to find.
This is how my system looked several years ago when I first installed it. It's a bit different now. I've replaced the black amp with an Orion for the fronts. The JL is for the Soundsplinter RL-P 12" subwoofer. The box is ported and tuned to 32 hz. I managed to fit the box up under the shelf by taking out the trunk springs. It fits nicely, although my truck doesn't pop up anymore.
looks hardcore. i hooked my new stuff up today, minus the head unit. running it straight from the ipod so my stuff is less likely to get ganked again. my 12shiznit soooooo much harder now.
I was looking at the Xenarc 7000 motorized monitor, but guys have been saying the gears fail on virtually ALL the motorized single DIN VGA monitors.
I'm now considering a 7" Lilliput touch monitor and making a dummy cover that goes over it when I park. Thieves really piss me off. Gotta do everything with those s in mind.
I want to be able to display and tune my Megasquirt and Baumann tranny software via wireless mini keyboard with trackball, and incorporate the pc soundcard and have all my media files to boot. Not planning anything special for speakers, just decent replacements for the stock stuff with a good amp. It'll be cool to have a nice touch screen with GPS and HD radio incorporated, then switch over to PC for tuning the engine and transmission when I need to.
I've been playing a bit with voice control, and think it'd also be nice to try in the car for changing stations or audio tracks, volume and such. Still in the research and planning stages, though. A really good microphone is crucial for that.
Check out mp3car.com forums for their takes on car pc equipment.
same head i have in my durango. I paid 200 installed for mine(from a buddy)
I had a dual 10 inch sealed, non divided box in my lincoln(same trunk set up) it sat right up on that little tray, and I had 2 pieces of angle iron lag bolted to the box, and with some HUGE screws holding it to the floor. Had some old school polk DB's at first with a rockford punch amp, 250 per sub, swaped in some OLD school kicker CVR comps, they ROCKED, but being non divided it SUCKED. Had a pioneer premier deck, with my ipod. Man that system was sweeeeeeeeeeeeet in that car.... God I miss it so much....
people like that are what make me want to rig my shiznit with y traps.... I am seriously contimplating it.. I bet you could run something from the radio case as a ground and if it came ungrounded set off the horn or something.... My brain is pondering now, I have 2 extra horns sitting in the back of my durango.....
My first Tbird...I had a nice Pioneer (if I remember correctly) cd deck installed, and I used a bit if plumber's strap on the back to give it more "support", as well as making it harder to yank out.
Well, I had it parked in my hometown (population less than 300) while I was riding around with some friends.
Someone had gotten in, tried to pull the head unit out, and when they failed, took a big mag-light I'd stuck between the consolette and the trans. hump, and beat the dog snot out of my stereo, the dash area around it, the clock, etc.
They even broke the mag-light! :mad:
Just sayin...if they want it bad enough, they'll get it, or else tear the hell out of it anyway.
but LOUD noise usually scares them away fast haha. When it comes to my stang, I will go past any moral standards to make it near impossible to steal/steal shiznit from it. I dont like people standing CLOSE to my car, without me there to begin with. I dont trust people when it comes to my baby.
I used to have two JL Audio 12W4's with a PPI PROMOS50 bridged into 4ohm for 400watts RMS. Had a PPI AM2150 on the front MBQuart 3-way set and a PPI AM2050 on a rear set of 6.5's in the rear quarters.
The attached pictures show the amp install and 3-way crossovers in the trunk.
I ended up sell the car in 2000 and miss it now. I wish I would have kept her and at least taken more pictures back in the day.
wow that is slick. If you didn't already know what you're looking at, you'd be going "I see the amps but now where in the hell are all the speakers???"
Thanks! I thought it sounded really good.
I had an Eclipse ECD-410 cd player and a Clarian 920EQ /crossover with display in the dash. The EQ display squeezed in perfectly to the holder above the radio... no screws needed. I just drilled a small hole for the quick connect cable to poke through and it hid behind the dash. This made it easy to pull the radio and EQ out when I parked it.
The front sound stage had more power than the subs. It was a MB Quart 328 CX 3-way setup. I had 6-1/2" in woofers in the doors on MB's angled mounts. They were painted Regatta Blue to match the interior. The 4" mid ranges were in the dash locations under the factory grills and for the tweeters I made custom adjustable brackets on the plastic triangle mirror covers. The passive crossovers in the trunk were the upgraded MBQuart Musicomp 300.72 units that could handle the Precision Power 2150am rated at 150W rms x 2 into 4 ohms.
The rear sound stage had SoundStream SPL 2ohm 6-1/2" pen 15sials in custom brich plywood boxes mounted on each side of the back seat. This allowed me to fit the sub box under the rear deck. I customized the plastic side panels with rectangular Ford Taurus rear deck grills, also painted to match the interior. This was similar to my parents 91 and 93 Mercury Cougars rear placement. A Precision Power 2050am rated at 100W rms x 2 into 2 ohms was used for these.
The two JL Audio 12W4's subs had the Precision Power ProMOS 50 bridged into 4 ohms for 400 watts x 1. Actually I still have the custom box and subs if someone's interested.
I ran monster cable patch cords and used heavy gauge wiring. Had 2 gauage power cable for the 900 watts and smoked a few alternators. Good thing they had a lifetime warranty. ;) Only had the one battery up front and I wish the 3G alternators were available back then.
I still have most of the equipment. The radio and SPL 2ohm 6-1/2" pen 15sials went into the boat and I have an 89 Mustang GT with the Precision Power 2050am. I still have the crossovers but sold the EQ920. Found a couple more pictures of the audio equipment too.
I will see if I can find some pictures of the system that was in the car back in the day. It was walled off with 4 18 inch rockfords, 4 eights, two 61/2 and two tweets in rear, the door had two 61/2 and tweet in each door. Tweets in dash. Amps were at punch 650 and another punch amp on mids and highs.