21-12-2011, 05:28 PM
ok havent updated this for a long time because I have been at uni so havent had the chance to do anything!
First day of being home i took the sportex off the 1.4 and refitted the stock crooked backbox. And then i took the stock exhaust off the 1.8 and put the sportex on... its very noisy and im sure the original one will be going back on soon. Also it the hangars are in the wrong place. The passenger side one fits perfectly but the one on the drivers side is about 3 inches out so currently Ive fitted two of those rubber hangars and tied the two together! Pikey I know...
Next on the list was to take out the passenger seat and fit the audio cable for the sub. Good to see that the cables were already soldered together to stop the airbag light flashing! Got that in no probs and the power and remote cables were already fitted down the right side of the car. Very odd how they were fitted but the audio cable wasnt. I presume the previous owner must have used a high level input from the rear speakers :/ I then messed around with using the soundstream components in the rear being powered by the amp but they still were rubbish and no better than the stock rear speakers.
Next job was to replace the front passenger door card as it was scratched to hell and swap out the soundstream components for my FLI Components...
started with this... you can see that some of the fittings in the top left of the door are sprayed red so i reckon the door must have had some work done up there for some reason :/ Also in the bottom of the door was some rivets for the electric windows. Dont know weather lazy french workers leaving them in or maybe its a replacement door that was converted to electric :/ Good thing is that its already sound proofed with some dynamat!
![[Image: IMG_20111220_143026.jpg]](http://i1184.photobucket.com/albums/z327/srowell3/IMG_20111220_143026.jpg)
tried putting the splitter at the bottom cabletied to the sound proofing but of course it wouldnt fit on because of the door card pocket! (temporarily forgotten the name)...
![[Image: IMG_20111220_133936.jpg]](http://i1184.photobucket.com/albums/z327/srowell3/IMG_20111220_133936.jpg)
finally had the brain wave to cable tie it to the inside of the sound proofing and finished with this...
![[Image: IMG_20111220_140626.jpg]](http://i1184.photobucket.com/albums/z327/srowell3/IMG_20111220_140626.jpg)
the difference is amazing and im really very happy with the sound its producing! You can really hear the trebble coming from the tweeters and everything is really clear and I can use bass boost to deafen myself if needed! :p The silver tweeter surrounds stand out a bit too much with my grey interior theme going on so i may spray them with sea grey to match.
The amount of gaffatape holding on the original sound deadening is a bit untidy so I reckon ill be buying some dynamat and replacing all of that in the near future! Next job is getting the 1.4 tax and tested but also im going to have an engine bay clean up and hopefully colourcode the battery box, ecu cover and fuse box!
First day of being home i took the sportex off the 1.4 and refitted the stock crooked backbox. And then i took the stock exhaust off the 1.8 and put the sportex on... its very noisy and im sure the original one will be going back on soon. Also it the hangars are in the wrong place. The passenger side one fits perfectly but the one on the drivers side is about 3 inches out so currently Ive fitted two of those rubber hangars and tied the two together! Pikey I know...
Next on the list was to take out the passenger seat and fit the audio cable for the sub. Good to see that the cables were already soldered together to stop the airbag light flashing! Got that in no probs and the power and remote cables were already fitted down the right side of the car. Very odd how they were fitted but the audio cable wasnt. I presume the previous owner must have used a high level input from the rear speakers :/ I then messed around with using the soundstream components in the rear being powered by the amp but they still were rubbish and no better than the stock rear speakers.
Next job was to replace the front passenger door card as it was scratched to hell and swap out the soundstream components for my FLI Components...
started with this... you can see that some of the fittings in the top left of the door are sprayed red so i reckon the door must have had some work done up there for some reason :/ Also in the bottom of the door was some rivets for the electric windows. Dont know weather lazy french workers leaving them in or maybe its a replacement door that was converted to electric :/ Good thing is that its already sound proofed with some dynamat!
tried putting the splitter at the bottom cabletied to the sound proofing but of course it wouldnt fit on because of the door card pocket! (temporarily forgotten the name)...
finally had the brain wave to cable tie it to the inside of the sound proofing and finished with this...
the difference is amazing and im really very happy with the sound its producing! You can really hear the trebble coming from the tweeters and everything is really clear and I can use bass boost to deafen myself if needed! :p The silver tweeter surrounds stand out a bit too much with my grey interior theme going on so i may spray them with sea grey to match.
The amount of gaffatape holding on the original sound deadening is a bit untidy so I reckon ill be buying some dynamat and replacing all of that in the near future! Next job is getting the 1.4 tax and tested but also im going to have an engine bay clean up and hopefully colourcode the battery box, ecu cover and fuse box!