jkamakaze Posted November 14, 2012 Author Report Share Posted November 14, 2012 Everything fit good so its sand sand sand sand sand time! Prepping for later upholstery, I still have to finish all the other pieces and fit them correctly before I go and get that done. I will get back to the under dash part because theres alotttt that goes into fitting these pieces and Im still working on it JM Exclusive - Car PCs, Custom Fabrications, Mods and More JM Exclusive Facebook12inch touchscreen CAR PC build...Multiple XBOX360s...Tvs Galore..Touchscreen Speedometer...JM Exclusive Youtube http://www.youtube.com/jkamakaze Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jkamakaze Posted November 14, 2012 Author Report Share Posted November 14, 2012 Trunk/Wiring: No as i said before, mycar has been a labrat for me learning to install. So opening it up completely the wiring looked Spidermans home. (HAVE A LOOK) Starting the build on the trunk involved having to rewire the car beforehand since I was going to hide a large majority in the spare tire well. Every line that I planned to modify on relocated had to be done at this ground stage. I have main junction points throughout the car. This makes it easier to troubleshoot lines without tearing everything apart or guessing what’s what if something were to happen. My RFID Keyless Ignition relay bank and fuse box are all located in this area along with my Kinetik Battery. Since Im trying to save max trunk space I planned to put one of my amps in here as well (oh not to mention the crossovers for my front speakers) JM Exclusive - Car PCs, Custom Fabrications, Mods and More JM Exclusive Facebook12inch touchscreen CAR PC build...Multiple XBOX360s...Tvs Galore..Touchscreen Speedometer...JM Exclusive Youtube http://www.youtube.com/jkamakaze Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jkamakaze Posted November 15, 2012 Author Report Share Posted November 15, 2012 Now I def wanted to get rid of the box that the Kicker L5 sub came in and do my own fiberglass box (save more room). I already had a previously installed Xbox 360 on the left side so it was only natural to take up the opposite corner. Masked that corner off and laid down my resin/fiberglass to make the mold. From the mold I built the frame for my kicker. Took me awhile to figure the best position but I chose it to face the xbox enclosure to keep a solid flow between all the pieces. Wrapped the frame with fleece and soaked in resin and applied a couple of layers of fiberglass JM Exclusive - Car PCs, Custom Fabrications, Mods and More JM Exclusive Facebook12inch touchscreen CAR PC build...Multiple XBOX360s...Tvs Galore..Touchscreen Speedometer...JM Exclusive Youtube http://www.youtube.com/jkamakaze Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smoove Posted November 15, 2012 Report Share Posted November 15, 2012 the work is looking good 2 Team Fi 15's v1 2 DD M5's 970amps of Alt 6th order blowthroughThe truck Blowthrough build : http://www.stevemeadedesigns.com/board/topic/155555-smooves-1996-chevy-ext-cab-c1500-slow-build/The 350z build : http://www.stevemeadedesigns.com/board/topic/170694-smooves-2003-nissan-350z/ My FB page https://www.facebook.com/pages/Smooves-Car-Audio-and-performance/719746144805343 Team Fi Audio http://www.ficaraudio.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StreetMetalBen Posted November 16, 2012 Report Share Posted November 16, 2012 Wow, you do have alot of talent and looks like LOTS of plans for the future!! Good luck, Im watching this one! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jkamakaze Posted November 17, 2012 Author Report Share Posted November 17, 2012 Now to turn my attention to the xbox enclosure……(sigh) well looking at the original outrageous NOOB fiberglass setup I had before, well it was time to trash the entire thing and start fresh. It had no frame and the shape of it was ridiculous looking. But it worked and had some elements that I really did want to save. Old Install XBOX Pics years ago (Dont laugh i was learning, just not afraid to show my progess): JM Exclusive - Car PCs, Custom Fabrications, Mods and More JM Exclusive Facebook12inch touchscreen CAR PC build...Multiple XBOX360s...Tvs Galore..Touchscreen Speedometer...JM Exclusive Youtube http://www.youtube.com/jkamakaze Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jkamakaze Posted November 17, 2012 Author Report Share Posted November 17, 2012 Ok so now on to the new stuff..... now before i did say that i wanted to save some old of the features i did like.... For one, I made the fiberglass foundation for it right next to the rollover vent, I glued a LARGE 4-5” PC Fan that points directly to the vent and out the car through the rear bumper (didn’t want to lose that, worked amazing for keeping the XBOX ventilated and cool even in hot summers). I also had a see thru DVD drive that I made myself out of plexiglass, that was hard as hell to get right the first time so I didnt want to lose that. The idea of modding my xbox for disc-less play also came to mind, but thought it would be a lot of work/testing. If I wanted to do that, I can choose to mod it later after the car is done. I probably changed ideas on the enclosure 4-5 times so im not even gonna bore you with the ones that didn’t make the cut. Definitely wanted the guts shown, wanted to keep the PC Fan and had to be easily removable. So I came up with this enclosure and the plexiglass window can slide out for easy unscrewing, then a cover piece to install/remove the whole thing. The xbox itself is a Regular xbox motherboard with Elite heatsinks on the CPU and GPU. I added a purple LED fan to the top of the heatsinks to aid the stock exhaust fans with cooling and air flow direction towards the Rollover vent fan. I soldered wires to extend for a pushbutton switch to turn on/eject the XBOX discs and extended both cables to the disc drive to put the disc drive up front where I can actually reach it. JM Exclusive - Car PCs, Custom Fabrications, Mods and More JM Exclusive Facebook12inch touchscreen CAR PC build...Multiple XBOX360s...Tvs Galore..Touchscreen Speedometer...JM Exclusive Youtube http://www.youtube.com/jkamakaze Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jkamakaze Posted December 2, 2012 Author Report Share Posted December 2, 2012 Now as for the trunk I had to remaining issues to handle. Originally I made this weird looking amp rack that would sit on the floor of the trunk and hold my remaining Evolution amp and a headrest LCD I had sitting in the attic. After building and mounting everything, I felt it looked stupid and confusing. So I SCRAPPED it (more fiberglass sacrificed for the sake of learning). EWWWWWWWWW JM Exclusive - Car PCs, Custom Fabrications, Mods and More JM Exclusive Facebook12inch touchscreen CAR PC build...Multiple XBOX360s...Tvs Galore..Touchscreen Speedometer...JM Exclusive Youtube http://www.youtube.com/jkamakaze Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jkamakaze Posted December 2, 2012 Author Report Share Posted December 2, 2012 I thought long and hard and thought it would be more beneficial if I went “simple”. I decided to hide the second amp as well and make a small ramp. The floor of the trunk would be two pieces. The rear piece that ramped down would be stationary and the front piece, because of chance, fell right over the tire well, so that piece can be unscrewed and removed for QUICK ACCESS to Kicker AMP, fuseboxes and all the other wiring. I was in love. Customized and functions great for daily driver, doing it this way gave me a trunk, something I haven’t had in years since I purchased my hugeee box from Kicker. JM Exclusive - Car PCs, Custom Fabrications, Mods and More JM Exclusive Facebook12inch touchscreen CAR PC build...Multiple XBOX360s...Tvs Galore..Touchscreen Speedometer...JM Exclusive Youtube http://www.youtube.com/jkamakaze Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FALLN Posted December 2, 2012 Report Share Posted December 2, 2012 that L5 enclosure is sick, looks like it blends real nicely. tuned in for sure Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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