2002 Caddy (8) Fi Btl 18's (2) Rockford T15k's and TONS more! Ipad Air 2 In Dash Page 16

meade916 · April 27, 2008

wiring madness part 2

meade916 · April 27, 2008

crossovers officially DONE. Doors, A pillars officially DONE

hoopty project......not done

meade916 · April 27, 2008

Ok i fired up the engine for the first time in a while and you KNOW murphys law kicked in. Happens every time i run wires nice and clean......the most dreaded thing in car audio. Yup, ive been chasing some engine noise the past few days so dont say a brotha dont put in work.....its no joke, but i think i got it handled. Sounds great now! Center console needed to come out anyway but here is what ive been dealing with..

ya its ugly but like i said the console is about to go out for upholstery so sooner or later i had to pull it apart anyhow.

Oh ya, i also flipped the Xovers upside down because i thought it looked better. I might mix in a piece of plexi so if you look real close you will see them, but over all it is behind the seats and under a nitrogen tank so it still wont be seen that well. I always liked the oldschool upside down look on amps and stuff so i did it here

Oh, also, RF sent me a brand new 3sixty.2 with some revisions to the bluetooth hardware......i just gotta connect to it every day and make sure it works thats all and i get to keep it. I gave it to Chicken though so he can have a new model....RF also made me a sick new control screen. They put SMD in it for me and that was cool but i asked if they could make it say T-30k in rockford font and they did it for me Im warning you this next pic is GANGSTA

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meade916 · May 19, 2008

ive been layin low.....mainly because last week i had the EXT and other excuses like that. I also had a case of "writers block" and im just now starting to get the back end where i want it. I hope this works out, here is my cardboard mock-up of what i have in mind.

sorta secret spy pics.....taken with cell phone so low quality

meade916 · May 19, 2008

small update:

Friday i went and chilled at Chickens pad after work and didnt do anything. Saturday i went to the Grass Valley show, I drank beer afterwards and chilled out again So i only worked today but i put a long day in 55 pics, may not SEEM like much but it was a lot of work.

first thing is first. The amps draw a ton of current during warm up so i want one of the remotes to be switchable from up front so he can warm one up at a time. Its just easier on the electrical system especially if its idling during warm up. I also am running wires so i can turn the PowerMaster charger on from up front that way he can plug it in and THEN hit the switch (for those concerned with the plug location) I also ran some extra wire just in case for the future so i can just tap in if i need to rather than run new wires. Im planning for expansion

Had lots of bare metal to cover and the stock plastic will come in handy....but only after i butcher the hell out of it

You cant just do trim in this situation without some sort of support...time to frame it out. As you can see its all plumb and level (well you cant see the bubble but trust me on that)

meade916 · May 19, 2008

Ugly as HELL right? just wait take notes its a pretty cool way to find difficult curves, just hash it together. Overlap it, tape it together whatever you gotta do....pull it out and then trace it clean. See the next 2 pics...

meade916 · May 19, 2008

I spent a ton of time on the wiring so i wanted to show it a little. There will be a plexi glass window in this spot on both sides. The 3sixty is barely in the window but at least i can see the light and tell what mode its in. I had no choice, the legnth of the RCA's and the fact its already done made it where i cant move it up more. Its fine it will be a suttle little view- thru anyway....

Ok time to deal with the PowerMaster charger. I wanted both windows to be in the same spot left to right........i didnt want a window down low on the left, and up top on the right so it was time to break out the butcher knife again. I had to peal the sticker off to gain access to the screws holding the circuit board to the case.

meade916 · May 19, 2008

Time to extend the wires......everything is soldered and heatshrunk. I extended the on/off switch wires to the front. I will probably drop a stinger volt meter where the power switch hole is. The digits fit perfect back there, too bad the one i have stopped working.

Had to make some brackets to hold the face to the wall. I had some Stainless layin around so i made up a few. They worked perfect.

the left side will match the right on the next set of updates. The window on the driver side will show the status of the charger along with a shot of the buss bars.......im clockin out for the night though, it was a long day.

meade916 · May 19, 2008

tinkered around a little this week. It was hard to work with the wind blowing so damn hard....it sucks almost as much as the rain or a 115 degree day. Just ruins any motivation.

heres a few pics of what i did though so far.