my 240 system project...

[InstantRice]

yeah your system is gonna be sick my friend. that deck was at hi fi buys and it is awesome. Its the deck we used to test speakers.

[ayjay]

ya i'm quite proud of the deck, even though it looks like scat, it has the ghetto feeling of greatness to it :pface

well door panels are DONE and installed! and the CDT's sound amazing, however i'm runnin into a prob, where i get a midrange humming tone, even at no volume, but the humming doesn't get louder when i turn up the volume, so i have no problem drowning it out... poor ground(s) possibly?

i have my sub installed too, and i competed and came in 3rd for street 1-2 (147db), but it sounds really sloppy so i made a cover to make my box a sealed box when not competing. haven't tested it out yet, cause right now it's either i have the door wired up, or the sub wired up, cause runnin both off stock alternator and ****ty battery won't last very long. i'm going to hook em both up at once, once i have time to charge my Monster DigiCap (mmm )

anyways, i'll post some pics up in the next few days once i get some time..

-ayjay

[Simmsled]

Ayjay... I have the Eclipse Catalog for your 55430 if you would like me to scan it and post it up here. Just let me know...

[stretch240sx]

hey what type of fiber glass did you use?

6oz 10oz???

[ayjay]

i'm pretty sure i used 6oz fibreglass cloth... the cloth requires about 1/3 the amount of resin compared to fibreglass matte, and it's also a lot easier to work with... the only thing you sacrifice by going with cloth is that it's not as strong as the matte, but it's plenty strong enough to make a speaker enclosure like i did.

hey simmsled!! yes could you send it to me? that would be dope!thanks man!

[ayjay]

here's some more pics that i just found...

ugh, brings back the memories

[ayjay]

and after a month of bondoing/sanding, I revinyled both doors in grey vinyl, and painted the parts that i couldn't vinyl (without having to do some mad stiching) with Nissan Charcoal metallic paint. did 4 layers of paint, and 7 layers of clear coat to make em super glossy.

end result:



will post a few more pics soon once i get them off my buddy's camera...

[coloradoracerboi]

thats too damn tight!

[stretch240sx]

looks good

[Holisticbeatz]

Wow, impressive. I would hands down go with your setup over getting a bodykit. Compared to your high tech audio system, my car looks like it still has an 8-track.

[airmanperez]

Holy wowness, i am drooling at my computer jeez, how much would this setup cost if i had someone do the fibreglassing and whatnot cost of speakers headunit, sub etc etc added in i want this for my car , but i want to do the entire interior over all the same time i got 6 g's to play with, think i got enough to do this?love the way that paint be lookin man, i am proud of you, you make 240 owners look real good, thank god i cant see any neon, thank u so much for makin the 240 community look this good rigt now... i need sound in my stripped *** car, anyways somebody email me some info on the speaker setup old boy here got and anyway to improve on it thinking of the money i have to throw at it along with any suggestions and where to buy it, ebay, other websites, go to a store blah blah blah...

[Thee 240sx Owner]

I'm sorry but i'm not a fan of it... It looks too out of place... but thats my opinion

[MainEvent212]

woah...

will you have my babies? i mean uhh...

[ayjay]

I'm sorry but i'm not a fan of it... It looks too out of place... but thats my opinion

sorry... did i ask for your opinion??? :pface but i guess i posted pics of it for some reason...

well, any set of 3 way components installed in the doors are bound to look out of place... maybe i didn't want them to look like they were in place... maybe i wanted them to stand out cause barely anybody i know has a set of 3 way components installed in the doors alone...

i could have done a stealth enclosure with the 6.5" in the door, and the tweeters and 4"s in kickpods, but i was set on puttin them all in the doors, and as a result, the imaging is pretty damn good... having the 4"s and the tweeters up so high really brings the soundstage up, it's like all the symbols, snares, and vocals are right up in front of your face.

so it might look outta place but it sounds amazing

oh and if you wanted a shop to do this for you, they'd think you were crazy, and they'd wanna charge you a good $1500

[flipittothewall]

Nice setup and execution...I'd wondered about how to fab pods like that, was/am thinking of doing something similar for my rear fill on the b-pillars. Now I knows how, thanks.

[Simmsled]

Audiophiles understand. Ayjay did the metaphorical audio equivalent of an SR swap or a Silvia conversion. You customize, in a way that does not have ricey lights, strobes, leds, stupid yellow paint, baby blue stripes, or any of that crap and make it funcional. Like it or not, the setup is designed for sound quality and can do it at high volume levels. There is a term I use when I really like an install. Proper. Good job ayjay. I plan on doing some bondo over the break to my dash. We'll see how it turns out.

[ayjay]

OK, well those door panels were fun, but now i gotta do the sub box... SO FROM HERE ON, i'm gonna go off on my sub box project =>

so for christmas i made a wishlist for my parents, and it's all from a place called FibreTek

-7 yards 1oz Fibreglass Matte-4L Polyester Resin & 100 mL catalyst-1L Surfboard Resin-4L Acetone-1 container of cut polish-1.5 yards of Carbon Fibre twillweave-Misc. brushes & tools for applying resin/fibre

sorry to let you guys down, but making a solely carbon fibre box was gonna be WAAAYY too expensive... was going to be $50 a yard, and i'd need about 8 yards of it... so $400 just for the carbon fibre cloth, not to mention the resin, cutpolish, and everything else i'd need to make it...

so ya... it's going to be a full fibreglass box, and final layer will be a layer of carbon fibre, just so that i won't have to get it painted, it looks cool, and it will also match the dust cap of my DD :pface

i think i'm going to display my amps right near the top of the box, above the slot port... gonna post pics in a sec

[ayjay]

ok here's a layout that i made in photoshop in 10 minutes (illustrator isn't working for me at the moment) but it gives you an idea of what i wanna do...



the amps will be straight up bolted beside the sub on the slopes of the box, and beside those i'm gonna have capacitors mounted behind plexiglass which i will have cut out windows for... I only have ONE CAP for the moment, but i'll probably save up for another one just to keep the symmetry goin i also show two amps in the pic... I have a memphis st-200 already to drive the components, but i'm plannin on matchin it up with a memphis ST-1000D for the sub, cause it looks quite similar...

the slot port is going to be swappable, for competition use and street use... believe it or not, that is one of the hardest parts of the entire box, because both ports have to match up identically to each other in terms of the bolt patterns... i'm also tempted to just go with circular ports that wouldn't be swappable just because it looks more slick and not as difficult to do....

but ya, what do you guys think of my plan so far?

[stretch240sx]

pretty cool, sucks you cant make it solely from carbon fiber. that would be sick but yeat 400 for just the cloth is a lot, definately gotta take pics.

is the fibertec place a website? i want to dilly dally with fiberglass and want to know where to get some stuff but have no clue.

good luck with the box

[ayjay]

no unfortunately, FibreTek is store in downtown Vancouver... it's a fibreglasser's DREAM, they have everything you could possibly need to do fibreglass/carbon fibre/kevlar work..

my buddy is actually doing the same thing as me, except he's gonna use Carbon Kevlar twillweave... that's a weave mixed with carbon fibre and kevlar, and it looks CRAZY... you need $80 shears to cut the kevlar... he's using the CK cause he's makin a custom enclosure for two 13" Focal Polykevlars and it would look dope being an all yellow trunk. i'll post pics of his install too, cept his car is a 2nd gen Teg...

anyone ever do fleece work before?? what's the easiest way to apply resin to it?

[stretch240sx]

damn canadians eh. always get the cool stuff. there was a guy who used fleece a little while back, i was gonna use his write up to learn on. i think it was a Q45 or something or other.

yeah definately post some pics of your friends when hes done.

[ayjay]

well i think i can do the fleece no problem... i just need some cheap paintbrushes to apply the resin with, and just slap it on...

now, another question i have deals with router work... anybody know how to make perfect circles with a router like 15" in diameter :pface... i mean i know how to trace out a circle in pencil that big, but i heard that there is a "circle jig" that you can buy to make them with a router... anybody know about this jig??

[stretch240sx]

im sure if you go to home depot or a hard ware store they will have one, do you have a dremel? if so, they have a circle jig, im positive of that... unless it needs to 100% perfect why not just trace and then cut with jig saw?

[ayjay]

ya i guess i'll just use the jigsaw and take my time with the router... it should look pretty damn round...

oh and i added up all the stuff i'm gettin for christmas including the surfboard resin and resin cutpolish for final layer of CF, and 10 LITRE bucket of standard resin (just to be sure i don't run out):$270 CDN... that doesn't include MDF or bondo & sandpaper, so add another $70 and i got a custom fibreglass/carbon fibre box for $340 CDN! not too shabby

[Simmsled]

Ah the Dremel. ALL BOW DOWN TO THE GREAT MYSTICAL POWERS OF THE DREMEL!!!!!!

[stretch240sx]

the dremel is the new vice grip and duck tape... it can do anything

[ayjay]

Ah the Dremel. ALL BOW DOWN TO THE GREAT MYSTICAL POWERS OF THE DREMEL!!!!!!

haha, DREMEL SHMEMEL :rolleyes dremel is cool pretty cool i have to admit... but they got no torque! i only find them useful for grinding and cutting metal... you can't tell me that a dremel will do a better job than a 1.25 HP router...more power the better is my philosophy

[Jonny 290]

Quote »you can't tell me that a dremel will do a better job than a 1.25 HP router[/quote]lemme know how that router works on a KA port/polish, lol

i see what you're gettin at, tho

[ayjay]

got my christmas present early so i could work on my box over the break

[stretch240sx]

mmmmmmmmm:pface