well, it's about that time. the past few weeks/months i've been slowly acquiring a plan as well as gear for a simple budget build for the fit, which will hopefully provide some good output and meet or exceed the sound quality of my previous car, which never got a build log. being my first build, it's pretty safe to say that car never sounded all that great, or even really good, and was riddled with door rattles. i will be going to great lengths this time around to prevent any rattles that may occur, and it's my hope that this car will also be a much more stealthy build, with better craftsmanship all around. the build will be done with some help from daniel (chithead).
so, the gear list:
pioneer avic-5000nex source
ppi ion 640.5
sundown e8v3 d4, will be ported in about .56 cubic feet tuned to about 35 hz.
hat imagines in the front, may add the mirus set to the rear at some point, unless i switch the front speakers up, in which case the imagines will find themselves a home in the rear. these were recycled from my old car, and i put the massive audio ck6's back in that car, which is now my girlfriend's.
daniel and myself got a bit of work done day before yesterday and things turned out very nice to start out with. we got the driver side door deadened and sealed up nicely, test fit the midbass, re-routed the head unit usb to the permanent location, and perhaps most importantly and most difficultly, got the amp mounted under the seat. for those who don't know, the fit's gas tank is up under the front seats in order to make room under the rear seats so that they can do all their neat folding wizardry. this causes a few things: firstly, it makes it feel like a small SUV. secondly, it means there is essentially 0 space under the front seats for anything. in order to get it mounted, it had to be placed near the rear of the seat, as there's a metal bracket in roughly the middle of the seat rails that runs all the way across, which decreases mounting height availability. in front of that bracket, the height tapers off and there's no way to fit the amp. daniel had an excellent idea in order to deal with all of these restrictions, and he created an excellent mounting solution that bolts to the metal bracket running between the seat rails and avoids problems with the floor mat. pictures will come tomorrow :)
this week, the enclosure will be built most likely (once again, thanks to daniel, such a gentleman :D) as he offered to do it in his spare time since our schedules don't align very well. the goal is to have this all ready for listening at the NC meet on nov 8th, and with next weekend being halloween, we're going to be struggling to make it happen.
for now, a couple pictures showing the amp and sub:
http://i.imgur.com/tKtLwlTl.jpg
amp with a ps3 controller on top for size comparison
http://i.imgur.com/GXGlBxxl.jpg
front of sub
http://i.imgur.com/5xOIMwpl.jpg
she's got a fat ole ass, too! :thumbup:
hopefully will have more to come in the coming week or two!