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

[basshead7890]

Looking good, love the amps and orange vinyl

[scooter99]

Yeah you got me thinking now Jamie. I'll go check it out.

If for no other reason maybe I'll do it for my sub baffle behind the seat and the rear deck like you did.

[scooter99]

Looking good, love the amps and orange vinyl

Thanks buddy!

[scooter99]

I guess that's not bad. For $100+ I can do all the orange I want to. But I have to figure that out. I need to decide if I want to do trim panels to cover wires or let the wires show. Got some thinking to do.

[scooter99]

Ok so I did a couple things tonight. Not much, don't get too excited. But I made some decisions today.

So now that I've decided this was not up to my standards, it's time to do something different.

Remove it! It was obvious to me earlier that I was jumping way ahead in trying to finish this thing up. I can easily do a trim panel later and really get it all dressed up and make it look better.

So the CFV goes in the trash.

And out comes the filler primer

one coat

two coats later. We're covered and ready for some curing to sand later. I'm going to actually let this sit a couple days cause it's a little cold right now, so it'll probably take a couple days to really cure well. Not a problem, I can get on the trunk floor in the meantime.

Some of the flaws showing up in the primer. These need to be sanded. Well not really, they don't have to be, but I think for me I'll do it to make myself feel better.

So next the plan will be to sand these down a bit, and then get some black primer and some black paint on this thing. That will do me just fine until I'm ready for trim panels.

So tomorrow I'll get started on the trunk floor.

That's it tonight.

[scooter99]

Got my actuator this morning for the back seat. So that's gonna get addressed here soon as well!

Thanks for the handling with care asshats!!!!

I have to figure out if I want to get a new back seat or not. It's a two piece seat, and one of the pieces or halves, the metal on the back of it pops when my daughter leans against it. SO if sheet sits back it pops in and out. Maybe I can take a video of it. Not sure if I can do anything about it or not. thought I might get your guys' input on it.

I also changed my direction on the install. I'm going to start working on the battery racks first before the floor panel. So that's what will be next on the agenda for the build. Stay tuned, I should have some stuff tomorrow night. Tonight is a "date night" with the wifey. Haven't had one in like, well honestly I can't remember the last one. So it's pretty important and needed.

[dog24fret]

Changed up a bit I see. Kinda excited to see this playing man. Keep up the good work man.

[scooter99]

Thanks Billy. 3 day weekend, although that doesn't mean I'm not busy. But hopefully at least one day this weekend I can get out and get some work in. Matter of fact I think I'll go throw a coat of paint on the amp rack base now. Then, it's off to the dump and then soccer game after that. Ahhhh the life of a parent! Love it!

I do have some big work coming up. I think I'll get at least one of them done this weekend, and if so, then I can cut all the pieces for the others. Gonna be interesting for sure. Maybe we'll all learn something this weekend. WOOT!

[scooter99]

Ok guys a little update from tonight. I managed to get out tonight for a bit to get some stuff done. Not a ton done but enough to get me jump started for tomorrow.

First, i got the amp rack base painted black. Not much, but this is what it will be until the trunk is ready for trim panels. So it's ready to be installed.

So that was this afternoon. Now onto the good stuff!

I'm stepping away from the amp rack for now, cause it's pretty much ready to go into the trunk.

I've decided the next thing to work on are the battery racks.

This is the battery that I'm using. They're small and easy to put in tight places. There will be 6 of these, 3 on each side of the trunk. So, in turn I need 6 boxes to be made.

Taking a look, the tops of these are a bit wider than the bottoms. I'll take that into account. This is the side, which isn't that much wider.

This is the front which is a bit wider than the sides.

Something to go off of for my measurements and putting it together.

The material I'm using is 3/4" angle and straight aluminum stock.

This is what I'm going to use to cut it. Little nervous about it, since I've never cut aluminum with this before. But I can't see making all these cuts with a hack saw!

Safety glasses

Long sleeves and gloves.

[scooter99]

Made my first cut and it was a success. Acutally cuts it like butter. I'll go ahead and change the blade when I'm done with this before I try to cut any wood LOL!

First piece of many!

Pretty good cuts. Damn near perfect

These are the front and back bottom pieces.

Box bottom put together, nothing attached yet.

Taking a look at it, I don't like how it's got that much space. So I decided to change it up a little.

Got it all tightened up, and sitting flush with the bottom.

Got the 4 corners cut

Again, all damn near perfect cuts

Mocked up. I dropped the top down below the spot where it widens out. This will give me a nice tight box. To hold them in, I'll be adding in a couple of wings, when the 3 boxes are all put together, and make some mounts for tie downs. That's later though.

Taped them so that I could get accurate measurements for the top cross pieces. See the side on here.