Audio setup advice

[Fat Audi 80]

/\ /\ /\ Makes sense...

I am looking forward to hearing and seeing this when it is done!

[Greg_S]

Andy,

Ive posted some details of the sub box for you http://www.s2forum.com/forum/showthr...480#post390480

[Sonic]

Cheers Greg - the amps and subs will have to wait for a while as ive just found out the subs are on back order for about 6 weeks

Ive made more progress on the audio install this evening. Today was the first day i actually put stuff back on the car instead of taking it off!

We used a blow torch to heat up a metal spike which made a neat hole through the bottom of the vent for the tweeter cable to run through and soldered the 2.5mm cable onto the tweeters instead of the stock stuff.

The tweeters have been mounted into the vent and the bracket supplied with the speaker is a perfect fit to the stock vent location, with just a tiny bit of the lip being trimmed off the allow the wires to easily go down into the vent.

The tweeters cables were fiddly to route, particularly on the passenger side, but they are all done

The best way to do it was put a hole in the bottom of the vent, push the cable through it and pull it out again through the main speaker hole. Open the glove box and now you can push the cable down the side of the glove box easily and just pull it down from below

Mounting the crossovers was also interesting! The units supplied are flipping massive - bigger than the speakers.

The passenger side has been glued to the underside of a plastic panel that is under the cover, and yes it does fit when replaced. Under the steering wheel on the drivers side there is a cardboard panel that clips into place, i removed this and screwed the cross over onto it - refitted and clipped into place again it fits perfectly providing good access and not putting the cables in the way of anything else under there

The front mid-range speakers fit perfectly into the stock location with no modification at all, so im very glad to say that the front component set ive bought can be fitted pretty easily if you remove the panels under the passenger and drivers sides. I seriously think you could have them all fitted and wired up to the HU, working again in 2 hours.

The rear speakers dont fit into the stock brackets as they fit using 3 clips using a twisting motion. I left the rear bracket in place as it holds the grill and glued the plastic bracket supplied with the rear speakers over the top of it. It fits perfectly between the 4 bolts on the stock bracket.

Ill have another update tomorrow when the rear speakers are fitted into the brackets, the front speakers are mounted and wired up to the crossovers and the cables are run down the centre channel to the boot. Not sure if ill get to install my new HU tomorrow

[Fat Audi 80]

Andy,

The jack goes on the OUTSIDE of the car...

Nice work there, I am liking your components and may put them on my wish list now you have test fitted them!

Cheers,

Steve.

[Sonic]

well at least i found a use for the scissor jack!

Ive yet to hear mine, but your kenwoods sound good

[Fat Audi 80]

well at least i found a use for the scissor jack!

Ive yet to hear mine, but your kenwoods sound good

Its about all those Chocolate Jacks are good for anyway, I have never used it lift a bloody heavy Audi, that's for sure!

Cheers,

Steve.

[KaraK]

Its about all those Chocolate Jacks are good for anyway, I have never used it lift a bloody heavy Audi, that's for sure!

Cheers,

Steve.

we tried once, it went up but didnt stay that way!

[Sonic]

Forgot to update this one...

From my project thread (which i didnt forget about!)

http://www.s2forum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=34052

Rear speakers mounted:



Speaker kit going in:



Fronts in:





Cables for the HU:



HU in:







Anyway, loving the setup.... but FINALLY after several months a big heavy box arrived to day - containing the 2x 10" 500w JL Audio subwoofers, as recommended by the one and only Jamo.

Need to start thinking about how to fit them and the amps again... oh dear...

[Ross]

Looks good, and I'm sure sounds great too. You should come down and see your new nephew and give me a demo at the same time.

You will need to do the RS2 upgrade soon though to lug all that extra weight around

[Jamo]

That's the final straw! Ross has his Avant on the road and Sonic has his ICE... by hook or crock i'm getting all my work done!

Those JL's will be lethal you don't want him to visit Ross or your son will become addicted to bass

[Sonic]

Totally addicted to bass... wah-um-wah-wah

[Rusty]

Beast :mischeif:

[FRANK NITTI]

In my dash I have alpine spg-10c2 speakers

I brought from florida focal (access 165 A1 mid range speakers)
to avoid ripping up your leather go to this website http://www.pmmodifiche.it/ as they will make speaker pockets that get fitted to your door panel - have a look...

To run both of the last speakers mentioned I have an Orion 800 watt amp - HP-4800

In the boot I have an hcca orion d5000 mono block (2,500 rms),
hcca-12.2 sub woofer (2000 rms)

To power those i have 2 Optima yellow Top batteries - sextons.co.uk recomended I use 2 yellow tops instead of 1 yellow top and a powerful Bosch power cap (5 fads) for my set-up. The yellow tops are around £200 each but I got them for around £178.
I have a split relay using 2 80amp fuses - the head unit I use is the JVC - KD-BT1, this has bluetooth built in and pushes out 2.5V - it's ok but it would be better to get 4V head unit like an Alpine CDA 9887R - but with this you have to buy bluetooth separately but you can also buy other add ons to improve sound quality

if you sit in my car and turn the volume to 14 your eyes tremble and your chest vibrates - quality amazing

[Sonic]

Well, a year or so on, the sub box has been made and is ready for wiring in

I'll post pics tomorrow.

[lind4hl]

pics, pics pics!!!

did you use the jig-saw correct then?