i just bought the last piece of the puzzle cheap cheap off ebay
a Dynamat Xteme bulk kit, 36 square feet should just about do it :lmfao:
Rizk the sub is being boxed under the strut brace and will foul up against the parcel shelf, and will be glassed on both sides for fully sick veiwing of the voice coil
The amps i took out of the Alfa, they have been running hard for 3 years and still work in A1 condition. A 5 channel amp wouldnt give me the power split i need to run the front speakers to their full potential, as they can take 160W RMS, whereas the rears take half that. Ive had Focal, Boston and MB Quart speakers in past cars, and still love my top of the range JBLs, especially runing of JBL amps. Each to their own, ur right, the JBLs for me are a real mid range bassy tough speaker. They take a pounding. I had a pair of 2way 3.5"s MBs running my centre channel on the Alfa and they were good for a high vocal roll, but a little too sharp to be heard day in day out. I was going to go for a Rockford sub, but the decision on the Alpine Type X was made pretty much because of the good experience i had with an Alpine Type R, and the fact its a very large deep coiled sub, so will fill the box nicely from the front to the back. A narrow depth sub would look weird under the strut brace as it wouldnt extend past it and leave a big gap to the back of the box
The amps are being mounted in a false floor, so bye bye spare tyre. My deck being a DVD deck has a seperate control module that is mounted away from the deck, so under the seat, behind the dash, etc where all the power/ignition wires come out of. The Dolby processor takes all the RCAs for each channel, and that too is a hideaway unit, so there wont be an issue with space. All that comes out of the deck is a CeNet cable and really thin wire for the Dolby processor
The Clarion centre channel comes with its own hideaway amp, its a half din size with 5 speakers inside, and will be flush mounted under the deck in either the doule din Metra or AI kit (im painting both up and will see on the day which fits best). The RCAs then go straight to the centre channel out on the Dolby Processor and all the 5.1 features/settings are controlled via the deck.
Im drawing up a diagram now just to see how it looks and to get an idea where i can mount the various bits and pieces. Ill post it up when its done
What do u mean by resetting the windows? Do you mean how they drop when u open the door? Will the installer have to do anything there, or will the windows sort themself out when u reconnect the battery?