well, its always exciting to work on cars i have never touched before, espeically if a subaru

its a world raly blue 08 Sti, fresh off the lot from Socal, with about 1k on the ODO...hehe...

the goals:

1. install avic-z1 navigation into the car
2. stealthy in the back
3. a good blend of sound quality and classy looks

lets get started, as mentioned before, an avic-z1 was installed into the factory location, its not the cleanest of sources but navi was a requirement and this unit was already avaiable. note the voice recognition/BT mic install to the left side of the headunit, right next to the guage shroud:



the car features Zapco DC reference amps, and the tuning USB cable comes out of the glovebox to plug into the laptop for tuning:



front stage consists of a pair of Seas Lotus Reference 6.5" two way components, the midbasses were installed in the stock lower door location via 1" spacers, and the door dampened:









and the tweeters were molded into the A pillars firing across at each other.

first the mold:



then sanded smooth:



and finally, covered in matching vinyl:



and the final result:









and the front as a whole:



the rear door speakres were kept and hooked off hte headunit and mainly faded full forward.

moving onto the hatch, this car turns out had a lot less space than we thought. the spare tire well was shallow (5" or so), and the distance from the original floor to the hatch opening was even shorter (3"), also, the car had two large triangular structural braes in the well, toward the front, whcih effectively eliminated the front left and right quadrants of the well...and we have large pieces of gear to fit in, but after some mocking up and measuring, i managed to get it work

here is the view fully enclosed, thats just a temporary carpet i cut to cover the install, a darker custom one can be made down the road, as you can see, nothing is visible:



remove the carpat, and the new floor is shown, with two covers for the two amps and a center grille for the subs, the floor is two tone blue suede and dark grey vinyl.



pop offall the covers and here is what you see, two image dynamics IDQ10v3s sit in a blue suede topped enclosure of 1.3 cubfeet, and two zapco DC reference amps are shown under cutouts, a DC1000.4 for for the front stage, and a DC1100.1 for the subs. note tha all the openings have a layer of routed, clouded plexi border







flick a switch and the plexi edges lit up blue to match the car:







and lets see that in the dark:







and finally, here is the car:



and the far away view from the back:



i forgot to take wiring and below the floor pics for this one...

overall, withoutmuch tuning, it sounds decent, MUCH better rattle and outside noise wise than the old Sti, gonna take it down to LA on friday and tune it a bit more with Eng

overall, a pretty easy car to work on, though next time, i would prolly prefer to do a single sub and smaller amps hehe

 

pretty damn clean!

 

Nice job.

Do I dare ask what it cost?

 

no discussing costs hehe, if you want to know just PM me, but ocnsider each amp, and the font speakres are all well over 1k in price each you may get a general idea

 

so much money just to add more weight to the car

 

Great looking system.....

 

do whatever u want to the inside but please leave the outside alone maybe a lip and drop..

 

hey I need something that is out of the way, sounds good and nothing 2 crazy! I hear alpine has a realy thin 12" sub that can fit under the seat....if this is something that you could do for me that would be great!

 

Don't put subs under the seats.

 

looks clean job u did bro ......

 

Wow, that looks amazing!

 

Looks great. Clean setup

 

thanks guys i wish i get more subbys to do... but lately its been IS350s, Tls, Gs and Zs as usual hehe...i do have the new system in my own car done, maybe i will find time to organize the pics and throw some up.

you dont want to put subs under a seat...thin subs still need enclosures, you even if you can slide a thin 10" sub under a seat, no way you can fit the .5 cubfeet of enclosure volume under there, not that it would sound any good at all even if you could

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Awesome.

 

your just jealous