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so here is a video of the car - admitedly it is only running at low power here -

Until it is setup properly and it is running off a battery charger i was not going to risk playing it full tilt

BTW when i talk and the music is on i am shouting directly at the camera and the distortion is the mic in the camera

More to come when it is setup correctly

[6th order Mondeo Wall]

The mids and mid-bass are now in the doors

The Mids are in the factory location so you cant see them but the mid-bass drivers are at the bottom of the door

Behind the doorcard is an enclosure that the midbass units sit in - this stops them fighting with the 6.5's for airpsace

http://samuelellis.cozywebhost.com//gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=27050 - they look a little bit on the massive side dont they

Screen and reversing camera working

http://samuelellis.cozywebhost.com//gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=27055

Dropped off some 16mm threaded rod yesterday to brace the woofer baffle to the backwall

That is as it stands at the moment

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Right update time

Both the passenger and driver doors have had the doorcard and door lining removed awaiting some Loudboy deadening

http://samuelellis.cozywebhost.com//gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=27020

The 6.5 inch mids have been mounted on wood and then mounted to the speaker bracket ready to go back in the door

http://samuelellis.cozywebhost.com//gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=27025

http://samuelellis.cozywebhost.com//gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=27030

http://samuelellis.cozywebhost.com//gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=27035

And a big hole in the spare doorcards

http://samuelellis.cozywebhost.com//gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=27040

The big hole is for these

http://samuelellis.cozywebhost.com//gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=27045

http://samuelellis.cozywebhost.com//gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=27010

Kicker RMB8inch Mids - old skool now as they were made in 2002 but as far as i can tell never out of the box until i got them a couple of years ago and have never been powered up

The 8inch mids are having a small enclosure built around the back of them so they dont fight for airspace with the 6.5's

Its getting close to time when we can power it up properly, set the crossovers etc and actually get some readings on the meter

[6th order Mondeo Wall]

Again sorry about not being able to embedd the pics - i should hopefully get a quick vid of it running in its current nowhere near finished postion today

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The reason i have not shot vids is that it is not finished yet, it was just a test to make sure it was working

Plus i only had my SLR with me, not my video camera - if i remember tomorrow i will take my video camera

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Now an update with pictures

First the back of the car

http://samuelellis.cozywebhost.com//gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=26692

As you can see the box does come a fair bit back but i should get my weekly shop in stiff - if not its an estate so has factory fit roof-rails, in this pic you can see the epic, crossover for the two front amps, some of the batterys (the others are below the enclosure) the sub amp and the distribution/wiring

Looking through the drivers door with the seat reclined

http://samuelellis.cozywebhost.com//gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=26688

Nice shot of the woofers looking in

A very tight tolerance in the woofers - notice how the centres overlap slightly

http://samuelellis.cozywebhost.com//gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=26664

A better shot of the overlap

http://samuelellis.cozywebhost.com//gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=26668

Nice neat work in the enclosure

http://samuelellis.cozywebhost.com//gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=26672

Rear shot of the woofers, notice the steel re-enforcing the port edge

http://samuelellis.cozywebhost.com//gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=26680

Close up shot

http://samuelellis.cozywebhost.com//gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=26676

It has been playing so we know that it works

The playing was a just a test run to make sure it all worked, the amp powered up as it should, all the woofers looked to be moving the same distance but for the volume they were barely twitching, the test run was just off my batterys that were floating at 13.08v at the beginning of the test, after a good 40mins of mild thrashery (only mild as naff all is setup or configured) but the amp did not get warm and the batts only dropped .58 of a volt

The enclosure does not look like it needs much more work tbh as it was playing most of what we threw at it so it will be interesting to see how it gets once everything is setup correctly, we have already had minor steering wheel wobble but it just sounds infinatly more evil than the boot installs of the past, we were expecing Rich having to extend/make a port for the rear chamber but it seems to like playing most of what i listen to (And Rich had a huge amount of fun going through the USB stick of random music i listen to) but the proof will be when the crossovers and epic are set, gain matched and its not just running off battery power

[6th order Mondeo Wall]

i LIKE this! very interesting way you did the wheel wells

its not be building it but they were built as follows

The car hs to be able to be put bac to stock so no fibrelass straight to the metal of the car, instead a layer od masking tape was put over the entire car and then amixture of bodyfiller/fibreglass was layered over, small squares of MDF were cut and embedded in the bodyfiller/fibreglass mix -- then another layer was put over - makes it very strong but gives the maximum space for the enclosure

and these are the woofers going in

http://samuelellis.cozywebhost.com//gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=22813

http://samuelellis.cozywebhost.com//gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=22827

http://samuelellis.cozywebhost.com//gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=22831

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Oh i forgot to mention in my first post that this is my only car

[6th order Mondeo Wall]

This is the build log of my car, a TCDi Ford mondeo Estate,

Before we begin - sorry the pics are not embedded but the forum software wont let me

Firstly the car - a 2004 Mk3 Ford Mondeo Diesel

http://samuelellis.cozywebhost.com//gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=23628

http://samuelellis.cozywebhost.com//gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=23616

http://samuelellis.cozywebhost.com//gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=23612

All normal and boring so far - btw did you notice the steering wheel on the correct side

now the kit list

Now for what is happening it it

6 batteries in the boot

2 1kwish audio system amps for the front speakers

1 3kw massive audio amp for the subwoofers

8 JL Audio 12inch woofers

no rear seats

6.5 inch speakers in the kickbuilds

tweeters in the a-pillars

8inch midbass speakers in the doors

So off the car goes to my friends bodyshop for the work

http://samuelellis.cozywebhost.com//gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=26278

Blacked out windows

http://samuelellis.cozywebhost.com//gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=26283

Stripped interior for deadening

http://samuelellis.cozywebhost.com//gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=26291

Loading wall put inplace to make sure drivers seat goes into position

http://samuelellis.cozywebhost.com//gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=26309

Carcase of the enclosure started

http://samuelellis.cozywebhost.com//gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=26375

more work on the carcase

http://samuelellis.cozywebhost.com//gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=26392

Location of one of the frontend amps (other on the other side of the box)

http://samuelellis.cozywebhost.com//gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=26432

Woofer baffle in

http://samuelellis.cozywebhost.com//gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=26470

http://samuelellis.cozywebhost.com//gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=26478

Woofer baffle detail

http://samuelellis.cozywebhost.com//gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=26482

back of the box

http://samuelellis.cozywebhost.com//gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=26617

Stock suspension coping well

http://samuelellis.cozywebhost.com//gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=26653

http://samuelellis.cozywebhost.com//gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=26629

http://samuelellis.cozywebhost.com//gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=26621

I do have uprated springs for the car but the stock stuff is staying on during the build

Fibreglass matt and resin to add to the enclosure strenght

http://samuelellis.cozywebhost.com//gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=26637

http://samuelellis.cozywebhost.com//gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=26641

Front of woofer baffle

http://samuelellis.cozywebhost.com//gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=26649

That is all the work that has gone on so far, need to get to my friends bodyshop to see the current progress - my friend who is building this car has previously built this - http://samuelellis.cozywebhost.com//gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=26440 so i have a feeling it could be interesting

[photos/videos from UK meet]

Sam, about time you got a youtube channel

Na, the only thing my youtube account si for is to keep track of who i am subscribed to, and dont forget i started doing all this back in the days when realmofexcusion was all .wmv files and youtube had naff all car audio videos uploaded to it so its tradition

Plus a you know it helps with my general principal of allowing people to download the pics/vids of they're cars

Im stuck in my ways and admit it

[photos/videos from UK meet]

How do, thought some of you guys would find this interesting, the link below is all the photos and vidoes i got at a the yearly T meet, the Tmeets are ran by a forum called talkaudio and are one of if not THE biggest car audio meets running in the UK (IE the only reason the meet exists is for ICE)

so figured i would give you all a looksie - http://samuelellis.cozywebhost.com//gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=24553

[videos from over the pond]

How do

figured you may wanna see some install videos from Over in England (where the steering wheel is on the correct side of the car) but as I have a sod-load of them i will just give you a link to my gallery - http://www.samuelellis.co.uk/gallery2/main.php If you go to the events folder you will find thousands of photos and hundreds of videos over the last few years

comments of the vids/pics welcomed

[Crazy Flex vid from the UK]

and here is a video i have shot of this vehicle - http://samuelellis.cozywebhost.com//gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=24354

[U.K. Event: Pure - Carma 3rd July 2010 - Scores & Pics :)]

you get everywhere dont you