picked up a spoiler from a local guy who has a pretty slick LS swapped FD. slapped some cheap can tire paint on the spoiler supports . I'm kindof on the wall, I like it in some ways and others I'm kind of meh. If it grows on me enough in the next few weeks I'll get the supports painted properly.
I swapped out the old toe link's last night, it seemed to have fixed my largest rattle from my 10 min test drive. however I managed to fuck up the length of one pretty hardcore and the rear left must be pointing inward by at least 3 degrees.
Whats the best way to align it myself for now? just change the toe link that is out until the front of the rim distances match the rear distances or what? should I just pull that toe link out and try again with the length matching?
I ended up buying my friends old deck and some speakers that should work for my rears.
Its older, was new in 2010 or 2009 or so, has the same software as my kenwood flipout deck, its not slow in the menu's, maybe a little bit if your controlling an ipod through it but for what I paid I can't really go wrong, it will get me going sound wise at least
I'll have to figure out what to do harness wise. I'll probably pull out the sealed connectors from the old decks harness and solder them on to this harnesses plug. that way I can do all the soldering out of the car.
the deck is
max output of 4 X 50 Watts
Continuous output 4 X 22 Watts
http://www.cnet.com/products/kenwood...ble-din/specs/
front speaker wise I'm not sure what to do, all the ones I grabbed to look at were too deep for my situation. I will probably need to build an adapter of some kind. I hate putting wood into my doors but I don't really know what material I would use other than mdf, any suggestions?
how should I drive the fronts? with the deck outputs listed above should I get an amp for the fronts?
I also ordered this
http://store.secondskinaudio.com/dam...-feet-80-damp/
should be more than enough to do most of this tiny car, I'm actually surprised how light it is, 32 pounds for the whole 80 sq-ft. If I can get rid of or at least seriously reduce all the resonating and rattling panels by only adding 32 pounds that's a win in my books.
well after a long night the sounds system is well on its way to being installed. I started out by test fitting and mounting the rears. I got 4 of them and only need two, all of them had the plastic trim starting to pull off so I took two and glued and clamped everything while I kept working on other stuff. tomorrow morning I will swap those in place of the two I used for testing. I'll probably use a small amount of rtv on the back to stick them to the brackets and some foam on the fronts to seal against the side panels.
I pulled out the harness from the aftermarket deck after labeling the few things left unlabeled. I then pulled out the harness for the new deck and started figuring out the wires. the color coding was the same so this was extremely easy. I soldered and shrink wrapped everything out of the car.
the front speakers were alot more of a pain in the ass. the speakers were just too deep and they didn't have the same bolt pattern so I couldn't just use a spacer. they came with some little plastic plate with a ton of holes in crap in it so I started cutting that apart until I got something I could use.
the speaker needs to be mounted to the plate differently. I didn't have anything lieing around that would work very well so besides getting the stock speaker wires repositioned (I forgot to buy speaker wire so I decided against replacing it) this was as far as I made it with the fronts. I'll need to pick up some little bolts and nuts from home depot in the morning.
with the adapter in the the speakers fit like a glove.
the self taping screws I used to test the first side out are a horrible long term solution. I'll grind away enough room for a bolt head use a little bolt instead.
By far the least troublesome install I've ever done. everything worked perfectly on the first test, and I tested all four speakers with no issues. the lack of a sub simplifies things quite alot. So i tucked the wires and put the deck in its place.
The rims showed up
The fronts are a pretty aggressive fitment, with coil-overs and a little more low it will probably need a little more camber and a fender roll, my fender roller has been shipped as well.
My sound damper is supposed to be delivered on Monday so I'll spend early next week on that. Should I just fill in around stock sound damper, or should I pull off the stock stuff and replace it? I'm guessing the 2014 high quality aftermarket stuff is better quality than 1992 Mazda assembly line stuff.
Also on the agenda for this weekend is pull all the plastic trim panels and repaint them, I'm excited to see how that turns out.
Another agenda Item is to drain and refill tranny and diff fluid as I don't know when it was last changed and I'm sure its time.
The rims showed up
The fronts are a pretty aggressive fitment, with coil-overs and a little more low it will probably need a little more camber and a fender roll, my fender roller has been shipped as well.
My sound damper is supposed to be delivered on Monday so I'll spend early next week on that. Should I just fill in around stock sound damper, or should I pull off the stock stuff and replace it? I'm guessing the 2014 high quality aftermarket stuff is better quality than 1992 Mazda assembly line stuff.
Also on the agenda for this weekend is pull all the plastic trim panels and repaint them, I'm excited to see how that turns out.
Another agenda Item is to drain and refill tranny and diff fluid as I don't know when it was last changed and I'm sure its time.
The rims showed up
The fronts are a pretty aggressive fitment, with coil-overs and a little more low it will probably need a little more camber and a fender roll, my fender roller has been shipped as well.
My sound damper is supposed to be delivered on Monday so I'll spend early next week on that. Should I just fill in around stock sound damper, or should I pull off the stock stuff and replace it? I'm guessing the 2014 high quality aftermarket stuff is better quality than 1992 Mazda assembly line stuff.
Also on the agenda for this weekend is pull all the plastic trim panels and repaint them, I'm excited to see how that turns out.
Another agenda Item is to drain and refill tranny and diff fluid as I don't know when it was last changed and I'm sure its time.
The rims showed up
The fronts are a pretty aggressive fitment, with coil-overs and a little more low it will probably need a little more camber and a fender roll, my fender roller has been shipped as well.
My sound damper is supposed to be delivered on Monday so I'll spend early next week on that. Should I just fill in around stock sound damper, or should I pull off the stock stuff and replace it? I'm guessing the 2014 high quality aftermarket stuff is better quality than 1992 Mazda assembly line stuff.
Also on the agenda for this weekend is pull all the plastic trim panels and repaint them, I'm excited to see how that turns out.
Another agenda Item is to drain and refill tranny and diff fluid as I don't know when it was last changed and I'm sure its time.
The rims showed up
The fronts are a pretty aggressive fitment, with coil-overs and a little more low it will probably need a little more camber and a fender roll, my fender roller has been shipped as well.
My sound damper is supposed to be delivered on Monday so I'll spend early next week on that. Should I just fill in around stock sound damper, or should I pull off the stock stuff and replace it? I'm guessing the 2014 high quality aftermarket stuff is better quality than 1992 Mazda assembly line stuff.
Also on the agenda for this weekend is pull all the plastic trim panels and repaint them, I'm excited to see how that turns out.
Another agenda Item is to drain and refill tranny and diff fluid as I don't know when it was last changed and I'm sure its time.