Finally Blue Dream's DD build; JVC, Clarus, JL, MB QT etc.
 

Wow for all of you that think this is an easy task I'm jealous. A friend of mine and I have invested about 22 hours into this project and all I have left to fix is the back up camera. I learned a lot along the way and helped troubleshoot a few issues as well. Started off with stripping the rear seats and the trunk liners.

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Then pulled the HU

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Wasn't happy with mounting points for my amps so I built 2 mounting boards out of 1/2" MDF to mount them which are painted Lakeshore Slate, same color as my car. Amps are JL 300/4 and 500/1.

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Mounted the Clarus front components and soundproofed the doors. The tweeters mounted in the factory positions no worries and I have to say these are some of the best components I have heard. Not cheap but well worth the money.

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My buddy wiring up the amps and the work in progress.

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Wanted to keep my XM but the antenna posed an install issue so I modified the stock set up by cutting up the old XM antenna and fabbing my own new version. Wanted to follow the XM guidelines and keep the antenna 6" from the glass and this seemed to be the best option. Only bad point was the paint under the old antenna was a little darker than my car which was to be expected on an 8 year old car with over 100K miles. This is just the test fit, finished product looks better.

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On to the HU and all the BS that went with it. Fabbed up the Bose plug for the Metra 7550 and it worked like a charm, thanks to those who posted links on this.

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Mounted the sub in the 4080 box, the back up camera, and the amps to the rear deck. Still having an issue with the camera but that will be worked out shortly.

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Ran into an issue with no sound coming from the components using the stock speaker wires. We finally figured out they went through the Bose amp so took that POS out and threw it in the trash.

Putting it all back together.

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And finally the finished product. Overall I'm really happy with everything we did, the system sounds amazing and looks great as well. I need to thank Milo (grippin) without whom I would have never tackled this project and to Wrathernut, AARONHL, Top Teke, and all who gave my advice and insight in this forum. The project took me 7 months from the beginning of amassing parts to completion and it was well worth the wait. I look at my car in a whole new way these days. :biggthumpup:

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Looks great. It looks like you didn't have to drill new mounting holes for the headunit, and yet it looks very flush in the completed pictures.

Still wish I could have helped with the install more hands-on, but it looks like you had several great helpers from how it turned out.

Awesome, i'm so jelly

Go big or go home haha

Now another reason to visit l.a. again ! With your new set up crusing here would be a breeze !

So we will see you at the in and out meet ?

I am jelly too.

I can only add an amp and a zenclosure box... No moolah for dd

Nice man. Jelly as well

looks great Tim

one of these days ill finish my build haha

what speakers you running

Nice build. What I did to get around the issue you described is I spliced the speaker wires coming from my amp into the wiring coming out of the BOSE amp. I want to deal with routing the wires through the molex connectors (maybe another day).

Wow. Great job! One of these days I'll put a DD unit in my sedan too. I think it really updates the interior of our cars.

Thanks everyone it was a cool experience and I wish I wouldn't have waited so long to finish it.

We got lucky and the JVC mounted up that way in the stock bracket. Needless to say I was happy we didn't have to mess with that.



I'm hoping to be out there again this year. Nothing wrong with Zenclosures. I almost went that way but wanted to keep my pass through open.


Fronts are Clarus C61-2. I almost bought the Focal 165s before I heard mine and couldn't be happier.



Great idea.



It definitely makes me look at my car differently. :biggthumpup:

Looks awesome, the best part about the JVC unit the face comes off, with newer models they dont make it anymore.

Good deal Blue, I really like this setup. Looks like the knob lights on the JVC are a perfect match. Congrats!

Awesome audio build Tim. I dream of having a very similar set up. I'm jealous too.

Thanks Adler, just wish I had done it sooner.