jsut gone done with another IS350, not as fancy as the one i did before, just a clean and neat little one


goals:

1. great sound quality while maintaining stock HU
2. relatively stealthy look but maintaining full access to the spare tire


The front stage is a pair of DLS ultimate UR36i 3 way components, the 6.5" midbass is sealed in the door via a pair of enclosure cups, and the mid and tweet are in custom built suede trimmed kick panels. the doors are also dampened














annoying to do but the rear deck stock subwoofer was removed to get better bass into the cab in



the DLS remote bass control module resides int he stock astray location




moving on the trunk, here is the normal view, as you can see, nothing fancy, just a fake wall carpeted



pop out the center grille, unlatch and pull out the bottom though, a 10w6 and a DLS reference RA50 5 channel amp show through red suede just to give a bit of uniqueness to the install







and here you see the spare tire is fully accessible




and one more behind the scene picture of the HUGE amounts of wiring behind the amp rack, tied up neatly and bundled so the drawer would slide in and out without a problem


overall, sounds quite good with the stock headunit, and in the IS, the front stage yields an extremely solid center image and dash high stage

 

Nice. Does amp drawer need to be open for cooling?
Please tell us about these enclosure cups - would G35 coupe need them? Thanks

 

sorry, last pic wasnt showing, there are two push pull fans on the back of the amp rack

i used the cups a lot of times on Gs with 3 way set ups helps a lot with midbass response

b

 

Are they durable enough for the careless people that would kick those speakers?

 

yup i have built well over 100 pairs, never had one destroyed, ever you cant kick through solid fiberglass, and the sepaker and tweetr grilles are metal and hard plastic.

the only way you can destroy kicks is if you take a screw driver and deliberately jab into the speakres very hard

 

That looks really nice.

What are the cups made out of?

Are there 2 speakers in the door and 2 in the kicks so 4 speakers on each front side?

 

wow the trunk on the IS is very clean and still has lots of space. How did you manage that. i know in our Gs a W7 takes up like half the trunk, but then again is it beacuse we have smaller trunks to wrk with.

 

thats a w6, so a bit shallowre, and by putting hte amp below the sub it saves a bit more space

no its a 3 way upfront, one in the door, the stock midrange is NOT hooked up

b

 

very pimp, I will be using those doors as a guide on what to put my edead on

 

looks great only thing that bugs me is the latched for the drawer

 

i know what you mean, but i didnt have too many choices you have any other ideas?

 

Not a fan of the kicks, they just look too out of place.

Trunk came out very nice!

 

Do you have any pics the kick pannels mounted in a sedan? (Would it look the same as the coupe?)

 

16psi, I enjoy your work. Good stuff.

 

3 way kicks in a G, regardless of sedan or coupe, would look MUCH more recessed than in the IS350, keep in mind the IS does NOT have a plastic stock kick piece, and has the emergency brake there so the kick panel has to be where it is

anyway, here is hwat 3 way kicks in a G pretty much looks like: