Project 504

[DubSteve]

Your not wrong Matty $2000 to fit

I know someone who is going to try and fit one to a VR so I will see how his goes and if its sweet well then I will see if he can do mine to.

[MattyT]

ROFL $2k just in labour?! Insanity!

[DubSteve]

No 2K all up thats including installation which is about $1000

[MattyT]

Ok, thats what I was thinking. Much more in the realms of sanity

[DubSteve]

No pics yet or completion

Worked on boot abit on the weekend I have done all of the panels, hit a small bump and the back panel has a small tear in it on the side will have to reupholster that

Getting there but so far away, also cut and refitted my sub box to the back of the back panel so it fits and doesn't hit the baby/ stress bar at the back.

On a brighter note I bought myself a new Sub New Pioneer 10" woofer pretty resasonable and also for the price I wasn't going to say no, and atleast I know this Sub works hehe. The magnet compared to the older one is twice the size and also pokes out alot more which means I will lose abit more room to make way for the subs poking bum. Ahhhh **** I this build is killing me haha

[mk3pete]

where did ya get the cup holders from

[DubSteve]

where did ya get the cup holders from

Not sure what you meant Pete but I bought I bought a centre console one like the US mk3s from TMTuning with my headlights which are on backorder and its already been 3 weeks but they are going to upgrade it to express shipping for free

Well I have not updated this thread in a while so I will do it now. My boot install has dragged on way to long and has taken forever but good news I finally finished over the weekend after a good solid weekend which was great and I felt really happy for myself hehe.

So now the majority of the boot has been completed, all the niggly bits I can do during the week and will not take that long at all.

Where I left off the boot last time the day before the Feb 24th cruise looked like this:



I then had to make the sides that will fill up the boot and square it off, so I got to work. The sides where extra hard cause they had a funny mould to follow and needed to be curved up the top to cause of the plastic moulds that hold the parcel shelf you will find out why later





I then had some extra foam left over so I made the sides two layers thick instead of just one extra cushion for the pushin I thought haha!



After that I then cut my material out and then stapled it all together and also being careful with the creases not to make them creased but try to make them smooth. One finished side the left hand one. The photos don’t do them justice they really sit good and fit in really well. TO make them sit in the plastic covers above the sides have a channel in them you need to cut the plastic that runs across it.



Both sides where done like thisJ Will have a complete photo of what it looks like further down the page J

[DubSteve]

During that week some Items from Awesome GTI came in New Manifold gasket, smoked sides, St George valve caps in red and a Polished bit for Adrian which he asked me to get to keep shipping cost down it helped believe me J



I went shopping a week later and went into the Soundmaster Audio Store at Hurstville, and could not pass up the deal that they gave me, after all I originally went in there with the mentality of “looking” hehe! Anyway I walked out with a new Pioneer 10” Sub for $100



New compared to old:





The magnet is twice the size of the old one and a little bit bigger in diameter up the top which is really good for me! So out with the old and in with the new hehe.

[DubSteve]

With the sub box that I had I dismantled it and went to work chopping it to make it fit for the setup that I wanted. I then stuck it to the back of the board with the sub hole and lined it up and made sure that it wasn’t going to move so I secured it even more





These little brackets will do the trick

TO make sure that no sound was going to escape and that it was bonded correctly I put in Sealant for the sound inside and out!






None of this will be seen so I am not fussed how it looks.

[DubSteve]

I then for the next week after it ran with the entire system minus the sub in the boot just to see weight wise how everything went I will not be able to fit hardly anything in here maybe one of those 6 can ice coolers that’s about it. I knew there wasn’t going to be much room in there from the beginning but you get the point


All there is in there is a box from work my sub under my work bag……Oh dear!!!

So last weekend I went down to my dads workshop and got in there and made my battery rack that I will need for my battery (Derrr!) when I relocate it to the back so I made this J






Thin bits of steel, cut down and then welded with a few holes down the bottom to be screwed in for anchorage. I am also going to run a rubber strap over the top to keep it settled.

I had some difficulty trying to fit the backboard into the car with the baby bar in there. So I found where my problem was and got to work snipping



And then sanded in back slightly for some paint.



Its becoming black again cause you won’t see it so I thought why not stealth and the white colour that I had painted it before hand looked fugly.

Yum Yum black J