Musashi Celica build

[jkamakaze]

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

[jkamakaze]

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)

[jkamakaze]

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

[Smoove]

the work is looking good

[StreetMetalBen]

Wow, you do have alot of talent and looks like LOTS of plans for the future!!

Good luck, Im watching this one!

[jkamakaze]

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):

[jkamakaze]

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.

[jkamakaze]

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

[jkamakaze]

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.

[FALLN]

that L5 enclosure is sick, looks like it blends real nicely.

tuned in for sure