Loud & Low 8th Gen Civic - Time to say good bye to her.

[scooter99]

There's a ton of pics to upload. I'm working on them now, but I'm not sure if I'll get any up tonight. May be tomorrow night.

[elflako17]

no no no sir they have to be up tonight or i un-follow -__- lol jk jk

[Herokight]

I just realized... My Sundays consist of church, random shenanigans, and following this build.

[scooter99]

So here's how my weekend started. Friday night I got home and put a tarp up so I could work in the monsoon that was about to hit us. Literally rained all weekend. But I had to get work done.

Also this was my list of things that needed to be done before next weekend. Lots of work to do.

I didin't get nearly as much done as I wanted to this weekend. My wife came down sick, so I had to do family stuff to make up for her being down, as well as this. So I couldn't be 100% devoted to this like I wanted too. I was also slowed down today (sunday) because I woke up feeling terrible. Plus other issues. So it was not as productive of a weekend as I'd have liked.

Last week I think I ended up with the battery racks being mounted up, and pretty much done except wiring. I had also did the doors I think. I'm doing about 4 different projects at once right now, so it's a little jumbled around. I'm trying to keep it all straight. So let's start with the doors. not much was done on therm. But we'll start with last week and move into the weekend.

So after it was was left overnight to dry on the front side, the next step was a little reinforcement on the back side. These are pics of what the panels look like before the glass was added. Lots of gaps etc.

Added a couple of layers of glass in the tweeter area, and the upper part.

And poured some resin in on the bottom parts and the ends.

[scooter99]

Also Thursday afternoon, I got started on the trunk lid amp and processor rack.

Pulled off the trunk lid trim panel to get it ready for the amp and processor rack.

This was an old trunk lid that I was going to use, then sold it, and UPS screwed it up. I just never got rid of it. Glad I didn't because it's going to help me now.

Taped it off so the trim panel wouldn't stick to the lid.

Got some measurements taken.

And then cut some 1/2" birch. Wanted this to be as light as possible.

Using tape I made some cut lines and then used the air saw to cut my areas out.

[scooter99]

Had to go a little more as you can see. But that's ok.

Then put the board in place and CA glued it to the panel.

Sits pretty flush with the panel.

Then i cut some chop mat to get ready to glass.

People have asked me how I got the resin black. US Composites sells a pigment that you just simply mix in with your resin. Turns it whatever color the pigment is. So I started layering the glass.

[basshead7890]

Coming along nicely

[scooter99]

Thursday night it was time to sand and get ready for filling.

Rage extreme. NEver used this, but I'm in love with Rage Gold so I figured why not.

Got both panels done

But only sanded one. Came out well. Have some spots to fill in still and sand a bit better. Also still trying to figure out how I want to finish them. I'm thinking vinyl now. But it's going to depend on time and money.

I forgot about Wednesday night. Wednesday night I decided to get the subs addressed.

Time to extend the sub cables. I wanted to take the old 8ga off and re-solder some new SHCA longer cable on, but apparently soldering the tinsel leads are a bitch. So, I came up with a different way. Or at least I thought I did.

These are some copper crimp caps. You can get them from home depot.

Two cables stripped long enough to fit two caps on.

And I crimped them with my lineman's pliers.

A little heat shrink and they're good to go.

Did a test measurement to make sure they were good.

[scooter99]

Another one just to show again.

Heat shrink

Done.

Now we have long enough leads. It't not what I wanted to do, but it'll work ok when the techflex is on it.

Both subs done.

Next I got my little assistant and got ready to load the subs. She's going to load, I'm going to screw them in. LOL

The resting place. Some foam tape to seal them up.

One.

and both. LOOK AT THAT ASS!!!! WOOOO!

The fronts are pretty sexy too!!

[scooter99]

Saturday.

Brought the bench vise inside the shop, because it was raining and supposed to rain all weekend. So I'll be soldering amp cables in here.

Got the SHCA 1/0 ga out. 4ga in the back, but that's for something else.

Got my tool chest of SHCA terminals and shrink out too.

First thing I had to do, was move this bundle of cables. Why was I needing to do that? Well I was actually going to put the fuse holders there, but they ended up being too bulky. May still be a possible spot after everything is DD1'd and tuned, but for now, it just wasn't going to work.

SO there's a cavity along the back wall and I decided that would be a great place to put this harness. I got some old roamex out to fish with.

Ran a piece of rope through it.

Then used that to pull the harness through.

Nice and tucked away.