GP Challenger Build log, pics and vidoes

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Whats up fellow audio enthusiasts. We built a challenger last week and figured i'd post up the video, and photo build logs, I will post the video build logs in this first post, followed by the photo build log

I will also note, we were on a slim time schedule so there is a few things left that have to be done next time we can work on the car, he was from out of state and we could only have the vehicle for so many days. I will also note, we are not in the installation business so this was done on our own time in the evenings to very late after all orders were packed and shipped out.

#1 thing on the list to complete is to seal everyone off into the cabin, there was just no way to get this step finished with our slim schedule.

Overview

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OK so here is the photo part,

We got the car and in it contained 2 sundown ZV5 12", a crescendo bc5500 and items he had shipped to him from us over the last 4 months for the build.

Northstar AGM31 for starting, Northstar SMSAGM220 for the battery bank, GP OHFC 2/0 wiring, lugs shrinks, fuses and blocks, GP STFU sound deadener, 320 amp team gp alternator

Everything to to do the build.

The first step was stripping everything out of the trunk and getting a Northstar AGM31 in the stock location (trunk starting battery)

While mike worked on that, I proceeded to deaden the doors with the GP STFU 250mil sound deadener

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And then on to the trunk

 

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Heres how the Northstar agm31 will sit, mounted up with the GP SAE machined terminals

The orange wire is the stock charge cable

Continuing to deaden the trunk

Under the backseat

Passenger side floor

trunk completed

 

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Installing the 320 amp Team GP Alternator

Charge wire ran,

Now I will note, on a 5k+ setup, with an underhood starting battery we would always do 2 runs of power front to back, but since this has a trunk starting and a factory 1/0 run of wire, the addition of the single run of 2/0 is more than sufficient to efficiently get all that power delivered to the rear

 

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Crimped a fresh UL listed copper lug on the stock charge wire, and replaced the factory 8 AWG power wire with the GP 4 AWG OFHC, replaced factory ground with GP OFHC 2/0

Ok everything is back in place, test spot for the Northstar SMSAGM220, and even though brand new and fresh out of the factory, following the standard procedure of being sure the batteries are topped off with the NOCO G26000 charger before starting the car with the new high output alternator

Black TEAM GP emblem to flow with the all blacked out car

 

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OK, now the main charge wire is hooked up, GP 2/0 AWG

Installed the new 1" shorted belt and fired it up

Now its time to create a grounding location

here we found the thickest metal on the car, made a ground distro, and welded it in, this gives us a simple direct path for the 220 to be hooked up based off of its location

 

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positioning the enclosure

Getting the idea of how things need to be laid out

 

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Getting ready to mount the subs

GP OFHC 8AWG wiring on the subs

slid that heavy mofo in

 

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Now back to the amp, we made some angled risers, I did not get any pictures of how we did these but it was simple, we had 1/4" thick 2" wide rubber, and created sort of a shock absorber for the amp to be mounted to being on top of the enclosure.

These pieces are side mounted so any vibration is absorbed by the rubber and not passed on to the amp. it worked out very well

Starting to wire it up

 

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starting to clean it up

Plugged in the GP Ultra HiFi RCA's, and fired it up

See this playing on the first post

This was our stopping point, as it needed to be tuned and picked up to head back out of state

Will update as we see this ride again

 

[hispls 5,000+ posts]

Looks very clean. Any plans to seal off the trunk?

 

[GPcarAudio.com Pro Seller]

Looks very clean. Any plans to seal off the trunk?

thanks man, and Yes, I note above that's a really important step we did not have time to do in the time window we had the car. Will update future progress