Well, the next few weeks/months I'll be overhauling my install in my 06 Civic Sedan. I'm starting out on the false floor area; trying to clean it up and hide wires. Next is the doors- gotta decide which midbasses to run with and then seal them up in the door. Then I'll be replacing my midrange and work on re-doing my current midrange pods
Looking to replace my tg9's with Scan revs. We'll see though. Anyway, on with what I've been doing...
I started yesterday. I did get my w205 headunit in, after realizing the harness was missing one of the brake bypass wires. I replaced it with the power antenna wire and got it up and running.
However, my negligance cost me a trim ring. It was causing the w205 to not fold down all the way so I put the dremel to it. Wasn't paying attention and forced it into the ring to start grinding and it ate WAY too much of it, lol. So, I'm gonna have to replace that; but nothing that can't be done in 5 minutes and I won't have to remove my h/u to do so.
The rest of my time today was spent cutting out the top and bottom of my new false floor. My dad took 2 hours out of his day to help me with this. Actually he pretty much did it all himself while I was trying to get the headunit wired up and in. Instead of using 1/2" MDF like last time I listened to some guys here and went with 1/4" Birch Ply. Got the two layers cut but had to cut the top layer down the center so that it can fit properly. The wings on the side made it too wide to drop right in (for those of you who are wondering how the bottom piece fit fine...I don't have the "wings" on the bottom since they won't serve any purpose there. Dodged the bullet with at least one layer. Going to carpet each piece on the top layer seperately with black auto cloth.
So...here's what my layout looks like. REalize that my RCA's are 3.3' at the shortest. I'm going to have ALOT of extra wire. Ideas on what to do there? I don't really want to run the wires under my floor cause I'm worried they'll get squished. I'd appreciate some input. I bought alot of "tech flex" to cover all my wires.
Some pics for now:
So, here's where I left off last night.
Headunit installed. Note the top corners are rounded WAY too much. That's what I was talking about in my first post. I'll fix it. Just gotta get a new trim ring and find a smaller diameter dremel tool to round out those corners.
Used left-over Raammat and put it on the bottom of my trunk. Surprisingly, everywhere that isn't deadened seem pretty solid. I did the "rap" test and knocked on every portion in the spare tire well. The only spots that resonated are what you see covered below.
I also managed to carpet the bottom layer of the false floor.
I gotta pretty much finalize the floor; get braces in there. Then I gotta run the wires. Then screw the amps down in place. Next comes putting main wires to distro block. Then connect it all, set gains, tune, repeat.
More pics to come today. Hope to finish up tonight.
Looking to replace my tg9's with Scan revs. We'll see though. Anyway, on with what I've been doing...
I started yesterday. I did get my w205 headunit in, after realizing the harness was missing one of the brake bypass wires. I replaced it with the power antenna wire and got it up and running.
However, my negligance cost me a trim ring. It was causing the w205 to not fold down all the way so I put the dremel to it. Wasn't paying attention and forced it into the ring to start grinding and it ate WAY too much of it, lol. So, I'm gonna have to replace that; but nothing that can't be done in 5 minutes and I won't have to remove my h/u to do so.
The rest of my time today was spent cutting out the top and bottom of my new false floor. My dad took 2 hours out of his day to help me with this. Actually he pretty much did it all himself while I was trying to get the headunit wired up and in. Instead of using 1/2" MDF like last time I listened to some guys here and went with 1/4" Birch Ply. Got the two layers cut but had to cut the top layer down the center so that it can fit properly. The wings on the side made it too wide to drop right in (for those of you who are wondering how the bottom piece fit fine...I don't have the "wings" on the bottom since they won't serve any purpose there. Dodged the bullet with at least one layer. Going to carpet each piece on the top layer seperately with black auto cloth.
So...here's what my layout looks like. REalize that my RCA's are 3.3' at the shortest. I'm going to have ALOT of extra wire. Ideas on what to do there? I don't really want to run the wires under my floor cause I'm worried they'll get squished. I'd appreciate some input. I bought alot of "tech flex" to cover all my wires.
Some pics for now:
So, here's where I left off last night.
Headunit installed. Note the top corners are rounded WAY too much. That's what I was talking about in my first post. I'll fix it. Just gotta get a new trim ring and find a smaller diameter dremel tool to round out those corners.
Used left-over Raammat and put it on the bottom of my trunk. Surprisingly, everywhere that isn't deadened seem pretty solid. I did the "rap" test and knocked on every portion in the spare tire well. The only spots that resonated are what you see covered below.
I also managed to carpet the bottom layer of the false floor.
I gotta pretty much finalize the floor; get braces in there. Then I gotta run the wires. Then screw the amps down in place. Next comes putting main wires to distro block. Then connect it all, set gains, tune, repeat.
More pics to come today. Hope to finish up tonight.
