thanks everyone! lovin the love haha
thanks everyone! lovin the love haha
yeah so starting to strip the car down again......
what could i be up to this time?
Looks great man. I've been watching this thread for a bit now and you've changed about everything possible on this car haha..
I've got a Broadway mirror and LOOVVEEE ITTT! Did you get the flat or convex mirror? Everyone's always freaking out when they get in the car for the first time and they see a huge mirror haha..
thanks for the kind words! it is the convex in this car and flat in all my other cars. lol yeah people freak out when they see it.Originally Posted by BexSican 408
a few changes happening right now:
I took all of this out the other day. I work at a radio shop now in Atlanta so I have access to better equipment and more knowledge so it is time to update and rebuild.
Sub box came out easily
I need a bigger garage!
The spare tire that has saved me on several occasionsBlueLex knows
All the junk that was taken out
If you guys remember my old friend's Passat show car then you'll notice this box.
After a freak electrical incident the car caught fire and it burned to the ground
Amazingly the trunk was still in tact and undamaged
So we made a deal and did some trading and I got his box and subs so that his car could live on in my GS
The subs are really what is gonna make this trunk. It is going to be an ARC Audio build. Gonna do it right this time too. If we reuse the box then it'll sit something like this
I will probably build a new box just to have it look cleaner and be more unique. Either way a part of my friend's car will live on in my GS.
This is only one of a few projects going on and I actually just confirmation today of a new mod that I've wanted forever and ever! I'm so happy
no gte for you Tony! Good to see the old stuff goes to good use in his teammates ride
zoom-zoom-zoom
nope no gte, something else thoughno gte for you Tony! Good to see the old stuff goes to good use in his teammates ride
last night these things arrived in the mail. i am so happy to be the owner of these veilside mirrors! i've had my eye on these for about 2 years no and finally got the opportunity to get them from veilside.
passenger side on
removed the rest of the door panels for another project
passenger side on
size comparisons
don't worry, i'm gonna do something to them. they aren't going to stay white.
more to come later. two words.... "Air + Saw"
Last edited by carbongs; 06-05-2010 at 12:32 PM.
leave them white that's the new vip style yo!were this man is going with this veilside body kit,lsx motor swap and some 15 daytons for Q.D?
zoom-zoom-zoom
lol definitely not keeping them white.leave them white that's the new vip style yo!
So now that I work up at American Radio in Cumming, I've got a lot of stereo heads and experts giving me ideas and helping me out. Big shout out goes to my buddies John Marsh, Scott Paterson, and Peter Lutz for helping out with this build.
As you know I already semi prepped the trunk by taking out the old system and some panels. Well, John took one look and said hmmm.
Called Scott over and he said hmmm.
Petey said here's your problem lol
Some of the goodies going in
More demolition
Now what?
Maybe this?
The air saw was summoned lol
Weight reduction FTW!
Me so sad
Hmmm, think this hole is big enough guys? lol
John's thinking... we need sound deadening ASAP!
I dunno why I like to be in trunks working all the time. Being in my own makes me even happier lol
Peek a boo! I see you!
More to come. That is all that we had time to do today at the shop.
Good stuff sir.
Got subs?
thanks again dude. glad we could let part of your passat live on in the GS.
woooo, ahhhh, this is gonna be pretty cool
you know it. step by step and day by day but it'll get done. in due time
A pic of almost everything going into the car as of right now
Did a little more deadening last night and took some pictures of some of the speakers going into the car.
Arc Audio KS6006 Component Speakers are going to go in the front stage. Thanks to my buddy Pete Lutz for donating these towards the build!
Mid Bass Driver
Cross Over
Arc Audio 10 D4 V2 Subwoofer (1 of 3)
New to the left and old on the right. It's gonna be fun making baffles for this one.
New tweeter to the left and old on the right.
Got Stinger Road Kill Expert Sound Deadening?
Me in my new favorite place
Jordan making his classic scary face before he starts to cut himself up
Trunk lid is almost done
Jordan's handy work on the rear deck
Jordan goofing around
lol the hole looks so much bigger with Jordan poking through haha
Jordan finishing up the trunk lid
This is when we ran out of deadening from the 1st bulk pack
More to come soon!
Last edited by carbongs; 06-10-2010 at 09:53 PM.
Looking good Tony! Can't wait for the next update!
thanks man! long time no see dawg
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Definitely great equipment! I've been converted. Once I sat and listened to cars with ARC built for sound quality.... I was sold!
Wow, great work so far in the trunk! Gonna sound killer!
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I like this new direction you're taking Tony!! Can't wait to see her all done!!
thanks dude! you've been very helpful along the way!
more progress coming soon!
Got the majority of the sound deadening in the trunk done now. Starting to see more progress in the form of extending wires and sub box floor boards.
Enter Stinger Roadkill Expert Sound Deadening bulk pack #2
Cut out a piece of MDF for the sub woofer box base plate leaving room for wires to be run
Fine tuned the mirrors and added sound deadening on the insides
Brett AKA Steve the Pirate helped me out with some deadening
I am determined to get every nook and cranny
Starting to look all deadened out
lol not even the least bit crazy.. you should see some cars we do here at the shop. 3-4 layers of deadening easy. i am only doing 2 layers
thanks slowly but surely
more progress today:
got some rails for a super secret compartment and some PL400 to glue down the subwoofer enclosure floor board
used just about the whole bottle on the mdf board and then put the rest on the edges and put my subs on it to keep some pressure on it
since we are going to run wires a little differently in the trunk we decided to extend some wires so that we could route the wires away from the subwoofer enclosure.
Thanks to Mr. Marsh for doing this the right way. Solder Iron FTW!!!
Enter Sound Deadening Bulk Pack #3
That is all for now
Woowooooooooo
thanks jordan! tested out the hybrid audio imagines the other day. wow! building the baffles and rings was more work than i thought but it was all worth it!Woowooooooooo
Stock speakers in stock location
Took out the amoeba pod lol
Disassembled the pod
Check out this crazy pioneer port action from factory
Made some baffles from 3/4" mdf
Looks like a little pig shape to me but whatever works
Magnet size difference
Speaker surface difference
Cutting out the holes for the speakers to drop in soon
Hell Yeah, You're doing work man. I'm pumped to see the results.
You going to paint those mirrors black?
thanks! me too!
as for the mirrors.... they aren't staying white and they aren't gonna be black
Looking good Tony. Man its been awhile since I have seen your car.
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thanks dude! been a while since i've seen you
Got around to taking apart the mirrors and painting them black. I was going to do carbon wrapping but the curves on the mirror proved to be too extreme for the threads to stretch without looking funny. Big thanks to Bucky for spraying them black for me.
Took off the mirrors while John was getting his Miata painted
Rough sanding down of the white paint that was on there
Took apart the mounts and mirrors to get both surfaces sanded and painted evenly
Sanding the mirror cups
Sanding the mirror mounts
Ready for paint
Bucky at work
2nd coat
Cleared over
Started to wire up the trunk
taping up the wires and labeling them
ran a set of primary wires for “custom wiring”
Wrapped up my door panel inserts
Took apart the panels
more to come soon.
looks good man....im a sucker for a nice gs
BROOTAL
Nice car, but not my cup of tea.
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thanks!
thanks, that's cool. everyone is entitled to their own opinion and it is good that we aren't all alike. otherwise we'd all have the same car. how boring would that be?
The mirrors have been buffed and polished and are back on the car with the blue tinted mirror glass
Pre-assemble
Put back together
Cleaned up
Glass in
got some more goodies in and working on them now. sanding and sanding, and sanding haha
pics now or it didn't happen!
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same as the trunk, lol
Oppps I just pooped a little..
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