[16psibrick]

finally got home from a long week of work in NYC...where i traveled to perform an install on a customers G35 coupe at his house...

before i get into the install, just wanted to say that this will probably be the last time i travel to a hot and humid climate in the middle of summer lol... working 10 hours a day under the sweltering sun outdoors with very limited tools is definetly hard on the body lol...also...

when the customer told me that he had a table saw, i sorta expected something more htan this very old unit with about a 10" cut and no guide lol




but in the end, blood, sweat, tears and a lot of mcguyverness working around the lack of tools and proper work conditions yielded a decent result

the goals were:

1. good sound quality

2. clean install with some flash

3. incorporate the two 10w7s the customers already has

first of all, the car itself looks great! clean, and the pearl white is fantastic...



so lets get started:

the headunit is a new pioneer 6800 7" LCD headunit with 6 disc dvd changer. its pretty much identical in size as the Z1, so fitting it into the double din coversion kit wasnt a problem:



from the headunit, the signal flows to an audio control DQT digial 31 band 1/3 octave eq. the remote control of the unit we ran back upfront and flsuhed into the upper storage cubby, this presents a totally stealth set up:




and when its time to do any tuning, its easy to simple pop the unit out and tune the car from the comfort of your seat:



to keep up with two w7 woofers, a DLS ultimate iridium 3 way component set was used. the doors were completely dampened and a fiberglass pod build into the door to give the woofer a quasi enclosure, and the midrange and tweets are installed into suede trimmed factory kicks as usual.

I dont have pics of hte doors as the customer took those pics, i will share them when he emails them to me





andt hen there is the trunk. the challence of course, again, is to fit so many big things in such a small trunk. the stillen struct brance adds an additional challnege since hte jl subs are pretty deep.

basicaly, a fake floor was built with blaack vinyl, the subs and amps are trimmed in pearl white suede, and the crossovers for the DLS is displayed as well. the subs sit in their own 2.25 cub feet combined box. the nine.2x provides 200 watts to each side of the front stage, and the nine1x provides well over 1000 watts to the subs.






overall, i am very happy with how it sounds, the bass is simply insanely loud, i have to keep the gain very low and it was still too loud for my own personal taste haha...but the good thing is the front stage is up to the challnege of keeping up with them...

overall, considering hte conditions, i am elated

[tntj97]

as usual, simply stunning!

[LittleCarp04]

you sir, are a GOD!! lol, everytime i see another of your install posts it makes me happy in the pants

[notacop]

"and the hits just keep coming!"

[itslow]

Nice job on the clean install. Looks great.

[Spinelli]

Of all the work you've posted so far, this install is my favorite.
The car is beautiful and the trunk is just a marvel of symmetry.

[1loudsvt]

absolutely awesome

[WiseGuy]

incredible as always.

[Spyder Z 15]

Awesome, but 1 thing I've noticed on all of your installs I've seen iiiiiisssss. That they are all automatics. Got any 5-6spd kicks installs? Just curious.

[JayBee]

i hate how lazy you make me feel.

[16psibrick]

well, on G35s, its much harder to do automatics becuase of hte emergency brake

but i am sure i can dig up a few stick kicks on Gs and Zs...give me a bit of time...

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[Steve-oE28]

You are a Pimp thats all i can think to say I wanna get you to install on my ride..

[marley1]

how much did it raise the floor?

looks great

btw hope you dont mind me asking, but what do you charge someone like that, to fly you out from across the US and do their car, lol how did you meet someone like that, arent you just all word of mouth???

thats so insane, i wish i could have you do my ride(wish i had the $$)

[16psibrick]

word of mouth yup

plane ticket was about 400 bucks, and the rest, including all the labor, dampening, materials, etc etc etc...was under 2k

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[scout62]

Sweet, does the one W7 hit the strut brace at full excursion?

[16psibrick]

no where near it...remember that even though the w7 have an inch of excusion, its the cone that moves that distance, not the surround the sub is about an inch away from the brace at the highe tspoint on the surround

[Audiology]

are those fg kickpanels or free air?

did you use fiberglass for the white areas around the sub?

[strong*I*bum]

great install,guess he/she wont be using the trunk?

[16psibrick]

yeah, not a trunk saving install, more show

the kick panels is free air, since hte only thing in it is a fully sealed midrange and tweeter, there would be no advantage at all to building a sealed kick...the midbass is the one sealed into the door with fiberglass pods and tons of dampening

not much fiberglassing in the trunk, simply not time and not enough available equipment here hehe

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[marley1]

**** so your pretty cheap cause it looks like you have over a grand worth of equipment in their.

you only made a few hundred?

hah good shi ttho!