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No 56K - Culmination of meets with 1337ssei
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I've been hanging out with 1337ssei to do a medium-level audio install, a brake pad change, and an idler/tensioner pulley change. I was told once that modifying a working car is bad not only because if it isn't broken, don't fix it, but also because Murphy will break something else in your car. Not believing this, I set out on a multi-day process of gathering tools and changing out parts, and the explanations for the turns of events preceed each set of pictures as necessary. This is exclusively a picture documentary of 1337ssei and me screwing around with goods except for two pictures somewhere near the middle. Enjoy!
Head unit swap! He bought a 1.5 din Alpine on ebay. Attachment 40248 Attachment 40249 Attachment 40250 Attachment 40251 We tore out the amp and rewired the new head unit wiring harness to go straight through to the front speakers. The rear speakers are amped by a 450W (peak) Lightning Audio 2-channel amplifier. It's pretty good. Attachment 40252 Attachment 40253 Attachment 40254 Attachment 40255 Attachment 40256 Attachment 40257 Here are some pictures of cathode lights and various other things: Attachment 40258 Attachment 40259 Attachment 40260 12" Alpine Type-R subwoofer! That magnet is huge! Random crap was shown for comparison. Attachment 40261 Attachment 40262 Attachment 40263 As it turns out, the head unit had a grounding problem. We took it apart to redo the ground wire, but it skipped nearly every time 1337ssei's car hit a bump regardless of our efforts. We're still trying to fix it, though. In these few pictures, we set up a PC power supply to run its 12V line into the head unit to power the speakers as we messed around with it all. Attachment 40264 Attachment 40265 Attachment 40266 Attachment 40267 Attachment 40268 Stock speakers from my 94 SSEi: Attachment 40269 Attachment 40270 No screws at the top: Attachment 40271 Attachment 40272 Attachment 40273 Attachment 40274 Attachment 40275 Oh no! The hand of death has touched the head unit! Attachment 40276 So, here are the two strange pictures. My friend drives an 86 Olds 98 Regency, and its crankshaft sensor had fallen out. He jammed it back in and drove the car until one night when I needed to go to the bathroom and the car broke down on a country road. Maybe I'll explain later. But 1337ssei's dad just so happened to be passing by from remodeling a house, and he had a plunger handy to hold up the hood of the car. Attachment 40277 From left to right are a Dodge Dakota, driven by my friend's friend who came to help, the broken-down Regency, and a Dodge Intrepid R/T, driven by 1337ssei's dad. This was taken care of very quickly. Strange. Attachment 40278 So, the next day, 1337ssei and I jacked up his car to do brake work. Attachment 40279 Attachment 40280 Attachment 40281 Squished suspension: Attachment 40282 Attachment 40283 Attachment 40284 Attachment 40285 Attachment 40286 Attachment 40287 Attachment 40288 Attachment 40289 Resurfaced rotors and some 2AWG wiring: Attachment 40290 We tried out the Alpine Type-R in a sub box. Attachment 40291 Attachment 40292 Attachment 40293 Look at the shine on that amp's heatsink: Attachment 40294 Attachment 40295 Attachment 40296 The box: Attachment 40297 1337ssei didn't have a drill and unfortunately had to be awesome enough to screw in each screw by hand into the brand new pine: Attachment 40298 Attachment 40299 Attachment 40300 Attachment 40301 A formerly clean install: Attachment 40302 Attachment 40303 Attachment 40304 Attachment 40305 I have a feeling someone may have a few questions about this: Attachment 40306 Attachment 40307 Attachment 40308 Pulley work, with no finished product shown for some strange reason: Attachment 40309 Attachment 40310 Attachment 40311 And now... Murray's law made a transmission mount break. 1337ssei was driving his car and suddenly felt a severe loss of power as well as no feel of the transmission shifting. He's looking into getting a solid transmission mount now. Attachment 40312 Attachment 40313 Attachment 40314 So, what do you think? I think this is a whole lot of work, and though I should have posted it into my work whorage post, this is a different car and thus deserves a new post. Also, it explains the delay in my work whorage. I'm still waiting for a good time to do the door speaker wiring, and I need a few door pieces. :) |
yea is ALOT of work but its going to be awesome
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Have you had any problems installing the new mount? The weather is stopping me from being there, but I hope you have a digital camera with you.
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I still need to jack up the transmission to get the old mount out I got all the bolts loose tho
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Umm..Murray's Law?
And Ohh, I spy an LG3. How many miles on that thing? Looks like some good work done there. |
Originally Posted by wjcollier07
Umm..Murray's Law?
And Ohh, I spy an LG3. How many miles on that thing? Looks like some good work done there. The LG3 has 94K miles on it with nothing done at all to it except for an added Optima red top battery and a 450W amp for a 10" Lightning Audio subwoofer right behind the driver's seat. Nice car. I hope 1337ssei is taking more pictures... I'm tempted just to get up and come over at 1:30 am if you're still up just to keep up the whorage. Then again, you need to come over tomorrow and help me out with my car. It's been thrown to the wolves of carelessness. There's some trim work to be done (you can see the trim in the background in the speaker pictures). Let me know when it's a good time for you to come by. Work Whorage awaits! |
Nice setup but a small bit of information. Installing an Amp on the sub box is not always a good idea. The vibrations coming straight from the box into your amp could rattle something loose inside. and if say someone breaks into your car, stealing your sub and amp is a lot easier for them now since they are one unit. Unless of course you bolt the box to the floor. Making a false floor under the box is always a great idea. Just my opinion
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Very good ideas there. Since the screws didn't puncture the enclosure, we could always relocate the amp. I figured it doesn't matter since the amp will shake no matter where it is, but maybe it will shake just that much more when on the sub box that something bad may happen...
If the amp were small enough, or if we were to take off the bracket for the bolt that holds down the spare tire, we could fit the amp in the spare tire area. That may be pretty good. Does anyone have any suggestions for the wires? I thought we might put the wires under the carpet and cut holes exactly where the wires should come up. Is this a pretty good idea? I don't think 1337ssei wants holes in his carpeting, though. |
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don't put the amp in the spare tire compartment. it needs to breath because it gets hot when used a lot. running wires under the carpet is what most installers do. The amp can also be bolted to the back of the folding rear seat.
What I had in my grand am boxes bolted to false floor Attachment 40195 amps raised so neon tubes could fit behind and wires run underneith and through a hole in the door. Some of the wires you can see in the first pic above on the left Attachment 40196 Attachment 40197 how i did some of the install for an idea Attachment 40198 Attachment 40199 Attachment 40200 Battery was later replaced with a capacitor, other cupboard stored booster cables (definitely needed them a couple times) Attachment 40201 |
Nice, I'm loving the trunk stitch. The temps are finally getting cooler here, which means less will to do stuff.
Radimir and 1337 keep meeting when I'm busy..it's a conspiracy I tell you, a conspiracy...lol |
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