[Morbius]

Really awesome setup! Probably the best you can do and retain stock HU.

I love what you did with the tweets!.

So do you mind me asking what was the total $$$ you dropped on the upgrade?

 

[Beerdrnkr]

Thanks! Sure, I'll give a breakdown the best I can for everything.

Subs: $200 ($99.99 each)
Processor: $300.00
Amps: $650 (both used)
Hybrid Imagine 6x9s/tweeters: ($300)
Hybrid Unity 3's: ($180)
Sub Box: ($200)
Wiring: $160ish
Installation of speakers, amps, wiring, and processor installation (includes deadening purchase and install): $750

I installed subs, mids, added sub amp bass knob, and moved the tweeters.

So total around $2740



I sold everything I had in my WRX so, I actually didn't spend much. I think I'm around $500 out of pocket. If I can have the rockford fosgate 3sixty.3 processor repaired I can probably sell that and make some of my money back as well.

 

[Beerdrnkr]

Next few mods will be better lighting from Diode Dynamics and the trifecta tuner. After that, much further down the line will be a small 2" lift or so, leveling kit, and bigger tires/maybe new rims.

 

[Toughsox]

Overall, you kicked butt on that system....well done indeed.

 

[Beerdrnkr]

Thanks Toughsox. It's really sounding awesome right now and I haven't really had too much time to dial it in fully. Just gotta tune it, clean up some wires underneath the seat, and add some fast rings to the mids on the dash and I should be completely done with the audio.

 

[Beerdrnkr]

Decided to put the fast rings around the speakers and cleaned up the wires under the seat real quick before work.

The sound does seem to be a little more directional now, so I'll have to play with the time alignment a bit later on.

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[linenoise]

Agreed, the tweater install in the front pillars is awesome and it came out so clean. Nice work bud.

 

[Beerdrnkr]

I got a little motivation today. I decided to remove the tweeters and throw them in the a-pillars instead. I had great width in the soundstage but the depth was lacking and it felt a little too bright and in your face.
I threw the tweeters in the a-pillars but left the wiring in the doors for the sail panels just in case I want to change it again later. I'll have to purchase new sail panels soon, they run about $60 each.

I also decided to add some more deadening to the inside of the door panels.

And finally I decided to clean up the dash. Trimmed it out nicer with the dremmel so now the mids sit nice and flush and I also put a little more sound deadening around the dash speaker grilles.

Gave it a quick tune and it's really sounding good now. Width is still good, height is great, midbass is halfway up the windshield, sub bass I still have to play with some, I think the subs are too close to my seats so you still feel the tactile response from the subs which gives away location cues. I don't know what I can do to fix this.

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[Beerdrnkr]

Small update. I wasn't really happy with the hybrid imagine tweeters so I bought a pair of the tang band ceramic dome tweeters.

Hot glued them in the pillars and I'm much happier with them. I'm still in the process of tuning but they're much smoother than the hybrids.

Also got a few new amps that I'll install within the next few weeks. The plan is to run each 5ch amp bridged to the tweeters and mids for 200wrms each, run the midbass at I believe it's 300wrms each (might be more, I don't remember the exact ratings for the sub channels), and then purchase the alpine M12 sub amp for 1200wrms to the subs.

And finally, I'm also thinking about running a spare 8" or 10" sub in the passenger footwell.
If I go this route than I would have 100wrms to the mids and tweeters on one amp, 500wrms to the sub in the footwell, bridged midbass on the second amp, and subs off the sub amp. I would use channel 7 for the footwell sub on the processor and channel 8 in mono for the rear subs.

The footwell sub would be strictly for sq considering the rear subs are causing too many localization issues. Any thoughts?

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[Beerdrnkr]

Well I spent about 14hours over the last two days adding deadener and installing the new amps, etc.

I have an alpine 5ch under each. Left amp is running the left tweet and midrange bridged and the left midbass on the subwoofer channel. Same thing on the right side. I still have the arc xdi1100.1 running the subs. Eventually that'll also be an alpine pdx amp. Everything sounds really good, but I haven't had a chance to tune it. The deadening in the rear really helped with the bass response and helped a little with the resonances.

I was also able to scoot the alpines a little further under the seats after cleaning up the wiring a bit.

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[Beerdrnkr]

And a few other toys came in too 

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[Beerdrnkr]

When you get a new head unit they give you all the new plastic trim pieces too? Or did you have to buy that separate?

It's just the factory hu I'm using right now but I'm pretty sure they have aftermarket bezels out for these and they do include some trim pieces.

I received my oem door sail panels to replace the ones that had holes in them, some extra clips to replace the ones that I broke originally for the door panels, and I also received a dash mat.

So the original plan was just to replace the clips, sail panels, and add the dash mat....well you know how that goes. I got another bright idea. I had some small format dayton tweets that I bought a long time ago and was hoping that I would be able to add them next to my dash mids somehow someday. Today was that day. I figured with a dash mat I would be able to hide them without having to do anything too crazy with fabrication. The dash mat it very breathable so I decided to do this:

I didn't want the mids sound too drowned out so I cut the grilles to let them breathe a bit.

Spent a couple of hours tuning it and it sounds awesome!

I'll be buying some new a-pillars to replace the ones I currently have. It'll look completely stock now.

Adding the new clips to the doors helped with some vibration issues I was having and while I had the door panels off I checked to see how much excursion I was getting out of the 6x9s and they weren't even breaking a sweat. I originally set the amps pretty conservatively at almost a quarter on the gain, once i realized I had plenty headroom for the mids tweets and midbass, I cranked everything up to about a third of the way. I have all the headroom I need now. No noise issues, no rattles anywhere once I turned 120hz down a bit on the 6x9s. Very happy with this setup.


I'll be getting the WOT tune shortly to help out with the power, as well as debadging and blacking out the bow-ties. Hopefully by the beginning of next year I'll put on a decent 2.5" lift.

Anybody think that an intake will help out with power at all?

 

[Beerdrnkr]

Decided to install the new a-pillars tonight. Everything looks stock once again.

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[Beerdrnkr]

Some non audio upgrades finally!

I just installed some diode dynamics LED cabin, license plate, reverse, and fog lights. Also installed some stark high beam LED's and Akoli low beam LED's. I had to cut out the plastic cups along the back with a dremmel due to the lights being to long, but I was able to tuck everything in the cups afterwards. I'll take a few more pics tonight to see how they look.

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[Beerdrnkr]

Back from the dead. I purchased some Morel Hybrid 402 pointsource speakers. They were a bit bigger than the Hybrid's I had in there, so I kind of said screw it and just started cutting away. One thing lead to another and next thing I know, I'm fiberglassing for the first time.

I didn't have to make it look all that great because the dash mat was going to hide everything. The oem piece I fiberglassed was only $90 so it was worth experimenting with. I tried to get as much of an angle as possible with the mids.

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[Beerdrnkr]

Also changed around my amps and went with less power. Got rid of the arc xdi1100.1. I have one alpine pdx-v9 under the driver side going to the driver side tweeter to ch. 1, mid to ch. 2, ch. 3 and 4 bridge to the midbass, and ch. 5 to the driver side sub.

The other alpine pdx-v9 is under the passenger side with the channels assigned the same way to the right side. I cleaned up the wiring so both of the amps were able to be tucked in further under the seats. The processor is still mounted to the rear wall.

Using the tracerite website I was able to get a really good basis on the t/a. I bought a dayton mic and downloaded rew, so the fun shall begin soon.



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[CaliColorado909]

Any guides on how to remove the dash pad to get to front speakers?