A Few Questions About System & Sound Deadening

[Ghia]

ghia, I cant actually see your boot lid liner in the pics from your install

where did you pick one up from?

as you said you used the extreme pack, they have a trunk kit which I found on ebay:

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/DYNAMAT-XTREME-TRUN...%3A1|240%3A1318

will this be sufficient?

Oops, I stand corrected.

Here are the pics of my boot lid

AS for the trunk kit, I believe its the same stuff but a smaller quantity.. That will do your boot lid and some of the 'floor' depending on how crazy you go.

[boost-kid]

looks good ghia,,I should be doing the same very soon.

I know this question has probably been asked, but is there any way to keep the controls on the steering wheel to work if a HU is installed?

[smicky]

boost, if you referring to installing a after market head unit, and want to use the steering wheel factory controls... I dont know of any that works but just hooking it up!

You can play around and open up your head unit, and the controls and work it that way, but defiantly not a easy or something you would do at home with a screw driver and extra bit of cable... SO prob not worth it...

A lot of AM HU come with remotes now days anyways, so you may be able to strap one on to the steering wheel... Pioneer are one which most come with remotes (or did when I last looked)... Im know other brands do as well...

[boost-kid]

just another quick one boys, I was looking at a friends headunit the other day,his got a pioneer, 5th one from the top.

http://www.pioneer.com.au/Products/Car%20E...%20Players.aspx

this is a fairly good head unit,although it looked way too thick vertically to fit in the tissue box holder. will I have to be making a decision on which headunit to purchase by its thickness?

or is there another solution.

thanks

[smicky]

boost-kid, mate would you choose one car over another because of the size of the tyres? You can always modify things to work (within the law).

Assuming your talking about the Pioneer 6050UB, it looks 'like' a standard half height DIN unit.

So would fit into a normal factory head unit space.

(Pioneer are a bit short on specs on the website recently looks like they are changing the product range or something and forgot to tell the web design team).

Since you are trying to fit this into the tissue box location, regardless of any unit some remoulding will be required, even if it is just cutting out the back of the holder.

Be careful that there is enough air flow in behind and around the headunit if you do install an aftermarket.

Best get it done at a shop mate - if your unsure, hate to hear you bought a new HU or stereo and it didnt work cos you blew something up!

edit: BTW - this is a thread about sound matting... not head units...

Edited 02/02/09 02:45 AM by smicky

[boost-kid]

smicky I was asking about both system and sound deadening when originally posted.

im looking at buying a alpine type-r subwoofer,,iv found this one on ebay

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ALPINE-TYPE-R-12-SU...%3A1|240%3A1318

would the amp that comes with it be sufficient to run it well?

I dont want it underpowered or 'just' running it, I want it running pretty much at its best or very well.

also,what do you guys think about buying a sub second hand?

thanks for the help

[smicky]

Dude - seriously I would go to your local car audio shop and get some face to face advice and demo's going!

I am unable to find the specs for the sub (ohms) therefore unable to tell u if the amp is really all that good for the sub - if you read the topic about car audio (pinned at the top of this section) it may give you a betteer understanding as well.

The amp may be fine, depending on how you wire the two voice coils, but again I would recommend you to talk to an audio store bud!

(I'm 75% sure the amp will power the sub no worries, however it wont drive it to the full capacity, and if you push it to hard - you may burn out the voice coil)...

Alpine website short on specs, manual unable to download....