FIAT 500, Audison, Alpine, JL, & Zapco

Here is my long time friend's new Fiat 500 she recently purchased. She was happy with the factory headunit with the Bluetooth but the rest of the system needed to go.
I did this install over a four month period when I had free time.

Audison Bit Ten
JLHD 900/5
Zapco RH-16.2 6.5" Reference-active
ALPINE SWR-1042D

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The bass control knob was mounted to the left of the steering wheel.

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Aiming tweeters

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Grill cloth stretched, resined, smoothed out with Rage Gold

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Sent out to get wrapped and stitched

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Some deadening was added.
Milkshake mixture of resin, Marglass and Rage Gold poured into the tweeter pod.
Wired up.

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The door skin, door panel, and door card received a deadening.

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4G ran through right side cowl.

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The sub enclosure area tapped off and measured for .65cuft

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Layed up to 1/4" of mat

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Cured and trimmed to desired shape.

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Flush mount speaker ring attached and felt stretched

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Resined, layed up with mat, and a coat of Marglass

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Cleaning up the edges

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Smoothed out with Rage Gold, mixture of Marglass and resin coated entire inside of enclosure along with a layer of deadening.

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A grill was made with breathable carpet

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The rear parcel shlef was vented and wrapped with grill cloth

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The JLHD 900/5 and the Bit Ten were mounted under the passenger seat

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I also made her a stealth cover incase she ever wanted to enter the rookie class to see how the system does.

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Quarter panels, roof, and trunk all received deadening.

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We also had the headliner and visors wrapped in black suede

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After I was done with the install I took it to The SoundMan in Santa Clarita were Doug and Rafa took care of an input issue and then tuned the Bit Ten.

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Wow, very impressive work.

Freaking nice work!

nice work man, im confused tho.... all that nice *** gear and then drop a type r in there? i mean dont get me wrong ive had em and are familiar with em. But i wouldve expected to see something with a little more sq

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Originally Posted by destined2race

nice work man, im confused tho.... all that nice *** gear and then drop a type r in there? i mean dont get me wrong ive had em and are familiar with em. But i wouldve expected to see something with a little more sq

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this

You sir, have a gift.

Clean install, good work.

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Originally Posted by destined2race

nice work man, im confused tho.... all that nice *** gear and then drop a type r in there? i mean dont get me wrong ive had em and are familiar with em. But i wouldve expected to see something with a little more sq

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I was waitng for someone to ask that:)

I had an extra Type R from a job. I gave it to her for free. Trying to get her to purchase an IDQ.

I built the enclosure with an oversized speaker ring to accomodate another manufature's 10". You can see that in the pic with the grill off.