2010 Mazda3s 2.5L

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At this point I needed a pick me up to keep trucking

And it was getting dark. Solar power LED's to the rescue! I wasn't going to give up till its done.

screwed down

Perfect time to clean under the seat, this little shop vac sucks literally

All cleaned up

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Its tucked away far enough to be out of site but still able to access the controls if I need to tune it but I left everything flat. Gain at NOM and filters full range

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Next a tiny upgrade was the replace the interior lights with LED's

White looks much nicer IMO

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Radio pro lets you fuck around with the factory text

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Next it was on to tackle the doors. I am using a kenwood excelon component set up front kicker 6x8's and SHCA deadner and it sounds pretty good actually

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I mounted the kenwood tweeters in the factory locations.

Marked out the hole and started drilling

I used a jig-saw to finish cut the hole since I don't have and hole saws. Thankfully I still have all my fingers and I was extremely careful. I do not reccomended doing it this way at all but sometime you just gotta get shit done with what you have on hand.

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It didnt come out as flush as I wanted but still looks pretty good.

Before

After

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Because Mazda uses 6x8 and the doors are stupid shallow I used a 1" spacer ring and a 6x8 to 5.25" adapter plate.

I used epoxy to bond the two pieces and add strength

Shit dries solid AF

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I let the adapter plates cure overnight then tackled the doors in the morning. Interior panel off

I also tried to make my own fast rings using foam and spray adhesive. This actually came out decent and seals all the weird air gaps from using plastic.

Also added some deadning I didnt go crazy maybe add more later

Ran out of foam and pieced some together to finish the ring

Rear doors were a lot easier as the 6x8's fit with little trouble

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Finally got the CT sounds Strato comp set in. These things are beast for 5.25" Not too excited about ripping the doors open again but I need to do more deadening anyway. I think I am going to keep the Kenwood tweeters and X-over because the kenwood tweeters are bigger and I like the way they sound. Both the Kenwood component set and the CT sounds set are crossed over at 3.5K so I should be ok just swapping the mids. Pics of the mids below.