Decent project: 1995 Ford Escort 2dr "SQ Car"

[LSN2meBoom916]

Ok this one goes back before I built my car  FOR REAL (I had 2 cvr15's in a custom box built by a shop and i was happy with it).

Ride: 1995 Ford escort 2dr

I don't have any full shots of the car but it was this color green and only diff is 2dr not 4dr.

Deck: Alpine Cd (model ## I forget)

Front mids: 6 1/2" Infinity Kappa Components

Rear mids: 6 1/2" Infinity Kappa 2 ways.

Subs: 2-JL Audio 12w3-D2's (version 1) 2 ohm mono @ amp.

Amp: JL Audio 500/5 5 channel.

Goals:

The best possible sound Q while still being able to drown out douche-bags in traffic and scare old people.

So this was OFFICIALLY my first ever attempt at makin kick pods.

Sorry I didn'd get a shot of layin the base-matt but here it is w/ the rings positioned

The owner.

Here we tried 2 different approaches as an experiment: The one on the left is the passenger side pod and the front portion was formed using planter's foam (that really lightweight, crumbly green foam in the bottom of flower pots/vases) and it was cut to form w/ a razor blade. The one on the right is the driver side and it is wrapped in black stretchy material.

Passenger side

Gettin there

And the driver side gettin moulded in

What a damn mess!

Tearin it all apart to run wires

Driver side after a layer or 2 of bondo and some rubbin with 200grit sandpaper

and the pair

Slave labor hehehe

Wrappin em up in some color matched stretchy carpet

I like to poly fill em for a lil extra "airspace" and thus more mid bass up front

Passenger side gettin mounted & wired

Driver side all done

And here's the "amp rack" I built.

The rack was actually more than you see in the pic, it had a top cover that attached via 2"DOWELS that slid into those 4 drilled 1/2" holes (2 on each side). It was essentially a frame that surrounded the face of the amp and concealed the wires. It sat about 1/4" higher than the face of the amp so it wouldn't get scratched if he put stuff in there on top, but the owner never put the top/cover in and thus, the amp got scuffed in a few places.

The box was custom built by a local shop and black vinyled. It was actually orignally built for his 85 bmw which had 3 amps (2 kenwoods & 1 mtx) and a different amp rack i built. I'm workin on scanning in them pix for ya guys. I didnt' get any pix of em, but had 2 Infinity Kappa Perfect 12's that he swapped in there in place of the JL's. The Sound Q was VERY good, But in the end he opted for a lil more output and good SQ w/ the JL subs.

I think that's it for this one.

EDIT***1-14-06

Since I mentioned it already I guess I'll put his old BMW setup right here instead of makin a new thread.

Ride: 1985 BMW 325E

Frint mids: Infinity Kappa 6 1/2" 2 ways

Rear mids: Polk EX 2 ways (5 1/4" I think)

Subs: Same as above.

Sub amp: 2-Kenwood 600watt 2 channels (part ##?)

Mid amp: 1-MTX 300watt 4 channel (part ##)

1F Streetwires cap.

Center Amp rack by me (black vinyled, Hinged, & held sub amps,wiring, and 1Fcap-see pics) and seperate rack for the 4 channel on driver side QTR panel of trunk in vinyl w/ removable trim ring to access connections (somewhat visible in pics)

This the before setup:

And after: Battery in trunk on far right. (stock location)

[bibby>Chode]

lookin good.

Cell phone pics?

[dmanson]

looks very good.

[LSN2meBoom916]

lookin good.

Cell phone pics?

HAHA NO!

Actual Hard copy pix from ONE-TIME use cameras (like 2 for $5)..then I scanned the pics onto my pc w/ my scanner. I know shitty quality but yall get the idea.

I think my cell pix (like on the lexus) were better. Oh well. working on a digi cam soon enough. Cant really go take more w/ the celly cuz this cars long gone.

[1LoudScort00]

w00t finally another escort!  ;D nice install man!