Grand Prix Install

[ghart999 10+ year member]

Car is an 02 GTP.

First comes the sound deadener.

Here is my stock door. Looks like a ***** with huge holes and almost no flat surfaces. I covered all the small holes with aluminum tape.

The 2 big holes were braced with 1"x2" pieces of wood and then covered with Dynamat Extreme and liquid sound deadner. I painted 5 layers of liquid sound deadner from Elemental Designs on each front door, the trunk and rear deck.

Next, I stripped the door panels and added 3 layers of liquid deadner. I then covered the door with carpet padding to add some more weight. I then covered them with Ensolite as well. Ensolite has been added to the front doors as well as behind the midrange cutout.

Next are pics of the trunk and rear deck covered in sound deadner.

The trunk lid was also covered in 2 layers of Dynamat Extreme and covered with a custom logoed lid mat.

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[ghart999 10+ year member]

I have since added Ensolite to all 4 doors, the rear deck, the entire trunk and part of the roof. It is nice and quite.

Anyway, on to the install.

Well first some pics of my engine bay and my baby.

Under the hood. Added a Red Top and a 200A alt from Excessive Amperage. Did the big 3 with 0 gauge, etc. No dimming now.

Here is my beautiful wiring job. Just not interested in making it look great, when the rear seats cover it all the time.

Here are the amps for my comps. They look crooked in the pic, but they aren't.

Here's a voltmeter i added to a little opening in my dash, covered with speaker cloth. When off you can't see anything. When you it glows through the cloth. Sorry for the small pics.

 

[ngsm13 5,000+ posts]

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[Pop da Hatch 10+ year member]

Looking good.

 

[ghart999 10+ year member]

Now on to the kick pods and door pods. My first time working with fiberglass.

Starting with the doors. The stock door panel cutout was too small and angled bad to allow my mid to come through. I did not want to install the mid on the plastic door panel. So I built a decent sized baffle that is 2 3/4" thick. It comes all the way out past the door panel opening as seen below.

You can see in this pic how the door panel blocks half the mid. I cut out the panel along the marked line.

Here it is after the panel is cut out to allow the mid baffle to be unobstructed. Also the baffles are angled about 15 degree upwards and toward my ear. Sounded a little better than just firing straight out.

I had to cut part way into the map pocket as seen below. I will cover that somehow later on.

Next, I taped off the entire area I plan to build a FG baffle to cover the newly cut panel.

Next, I added resin and 3 ounces of chop mat to the area and let it dry.

Afterwards, I trimmed the piece down the desired size. I added bolts to the base so that I can screw the new piece directly to the door panel. The bolts were glassed in.

Next I covered the baffles in poly resin to make them waterproof. I used 5 bolts to go through the baffle and door. I then reached into the opening and used nuts to hold the baffle to the door. I use silicon adhesive to make an airtight seal.

 

[ghart999 10+ year member]

Now on to the kicks for now.

I built speaker rings to hold the tweeters. The tweets are very large and deep . I used a round over bit on the outer ring. First time with the router, EVER.

Next, I taped off the area for the kicks. I could not utilize the stock kick panel since it is very small. So the kick pod and the stock kick panel will not be connected in anyway.

After the base dried, I cut out the desire piece with a diamond cuting bit for my dremel. I then held the baffle to the base with plumber strapping. I used a laser to aim the pods to hit the window exactly 5 inches in front of my ear and 1.5 inches below it.

After I found the right angle, I used wooden dowel to hold the baffle to the base. Used hot glue.

Once this dried, I covered the base in cloth. First time doing this, so I ended up with the some wrinkles as seen in the pic. Hopefully body filler will help hide them.

Then I painted to pods in resin and 3 ounces of chop mat. Just finished this part two hours ago. I will post more pics and I progress throughout the week.

Also I will be covering the kick pods and door pods in a light grey vinyl that matches the light grey in my car's interior. Vinyl is new for me too, so hopefully it will look good.

 

[ghart999 10+ year member]

I cut out the desired area for the base of the door pod and made sure it fits snug with the door panel.

Next, I cut out the middle area of the base to expose the midrange.

From here I added my baffles to the base and held them together with wooden dowels.

Next comes the wrapping of the pods in cloth. No wrinkles this time.

I also cut out the inside of the kick pods and sanded them to get em smooth and ready for body filler. Tomorrow I will post more updates.

DIY is fun boys and girls!!!

 

[ghart999 10+ year member]

The pods and kicks filled with body filler and glazing putty. They are sanded down nice and smooth and ready to apply the vinyl.

Here's the kicks and pods finished.

This is what the ribbons look like with the grill off.

 

[ghart999 10+ year member]

Sub amp is in the spare tire well. Will get pics of that and new box when the box is built by SPY.

Thanks for looking.

 

[audiobahnuser18 5,000+ posts]

Looks very nice man. very nice glass work. im a fiberglasser myself.

 

[audiobahnuser18 5,000+ posts]

Only thing i have to say bad bout it those pods r huge.

 

[Rawr-DQ 10+ year member]

looks good so far!

 

[ngsm13 5,000+ posts]

Only thing i have to say bad bout it those pods r huge.

Not really...

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[ghart999 10+ year member]

Only thing i have to say bad bout it those pods r huge.

That's what my feet say when I am driving. Maybe I will redo them another day.

 

[99gtxgolfer 10+ year member]

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